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The Presidents Council, State Universities of Michigan, based in Lansing, is a nonprofit higher education association serving Michigan's 15 state universities.

 

Each year, Michigan's public universities serve about 298,000 students, focusing on the delivery of excellent undergraduate and graduate education and equal educational opportunity.
 

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  • America's Best Colleges - Encouraging 'Crazy Ideas'

    August 30, 2010/Forbes.com

     

    By Mary Sue Coleman

     

    Entrepreneurs on today's college campuses are no longer only huddled together at the business school. They are emerging from the hallways in our music schools and our engineering programs. They are coming forward with fresh ideas in architecture and medicine.

  • College Aid Offices Offer Students Tuition Help, Hope

    August 30, 2010/Detroit Free Press

    By Lori Higgins

     

    About half of the 250 students on the Ferris State University campus last week for student orientation had needs more pressing than just signing up for classes: They were trying to figure out how to pay for those classes.

     

    Similar scenes have been unfolding in financial-aid offices at colleges and universities across Michigan as students, for reasons that range from procrastination to a sudden drop in income, find themselves searching for what may seem
    like a miracle.

  • Michigan Business Leaders Call for Universities to Share Services

    August 22, 2010/The Saginaw News

     

    An influential group of Michigan executives — a group that includes Dow Chemical Co. Chief Financial Officer William H. Weideman and Dow Corning Corp. Executive J. Donald Sheets — wants Michigan to become a “Top Ten” state for job and economic growth.

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