What's the Value of a College Degree? Turns out Education Improves Everything from Health to Marriage
Wednesday, January 25, 2012 (25 reads)
Kalamazoo Gazette/January 23, 2012
A large body of research indicates that the value of a college degree affects almost every aspect of life.
The conventional wisdom these days -- OK, the more cynical version of conventional wisdom -- is that a college degree is a ticket to student debt and not much else.
Just a few days ago on mlive.com, commenter spikes 11 made a sarcastic reference to how higher education results in a "$25,000 job after 5 years and $100k in student loans to pay off for the next 50 years."
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Gov. Rick Snyder's Talent Message: What Happened to Letting the Market Decide?
Tuesday, December 06, 2011 (168 reads)
December 05, 2011/MLive.com
In Gov. Rick Snyder's latest special message, he made a vague pronouncement that community colleges, universities and trade schools should stop "overproducing" graduates in areas Michigan doesn't need.
He notes that Michigan could use people trained in computer programming, math, health care and engineering. But the governor doesn't say what programs colleges should cut or cut back.
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Campus Governments Talk Student Issues at Conference
Tuesday, December 06, 2011 (154 reads)
December 4, 2011/The Michigan Daily
The Michigan Student Assembly hosted its first Student Association of Michigan this past weekend to foster increased discussion among student governments within the state about issues affecting every college student in Michigan.
Founded in 2007, SAM is a student-led organization comprised of representatives from student governments at the 15 public universities in Michigan. Jay Gage, SAM president and a student at Lake Superior State University, said the organization aims to work collaboratively with student governments to generate policies that can make an impact among students.
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Wanted: A Higher Education System for a Global Economy
Monday, October 10, 2011 (243 reads)
October 10, 2011/Michigan Future
Our view of the purpose of higher education is taking a dangerous step in the wrong direction. As reflected in a recent Bridge article increasingly policy makers and opinion leaders are making the case that Michigan’s public universities should primarily be in the business of preparing students for a professional job in the student’s major with a Michigan employer immediately upon graduation. In a previous post I have dealt with why the immediate job standard is harmful. Here I want to explore why “for a Michigan employer” is just as bad.
For more than a century what it has meant to be a Michigan resident and taxpayer is access at affordable rates to a world class system of public higher education that prepares students to better take advantage of life’s opportunities no matter where you choose to live and work after college.
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Universities Don't Back Merger
Thursday, October 06, 2011 (208 reads)
October 6, 2011/Detroit Free Press
Restructuring plan could mean end to autonomy
DETROIT - Although Michigan's universities are working together more than ever, there's no need to consolidate them into one statewide system, the presidents of the state's biggest three said Tuesday.
"I think we are some of the most responsive (higher education) institutions to the state's needs anywhere in the country," University of Michigan President Mary Sue Coleman told the Detroit Economic Club. She added she didn't think that would be the case if all the universities were grouped under one system.
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Guest Commentary: To Truly Boost State, Invest in Public Goods
Monday, September 26, 2011 (242 reads)
September 25, 2011/Detroit Free Press
Michigan and the nation are struggling to identify what can reboot our economy and grow jobs again. A leading argument is that low taxes and reduced government are the answer.
The truth is that to be truly "business friendly" requires strategic investment in public goods -- the things the market does not do itself -- that in turn support business and create conditions for economic growth.
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State Must do the Right Thing by MSU
Monday, July 25, 2011 (366 reads)
July 23, 2011/Lansing State Journal
A state lawmaker accused Michigan State University officials of "getting cute with the definition of 'academic year' " to slip in a larger tuition increase than allowed by the state appropriations bill. At stake is an $18.3 million tuition restraint payment.
One could more correctly argue that lawmakers used sloppy language in their bill. Fortunately, lawmakers also gave Budget Director John Nixon the authority to decide whether a university is complying with tuition restraint guidelines. Now he must be the rational voice to end this silly sideshow.
Here's the back story.
The budget passed on June 21 appropriates $222.8 million to MSU for operations and an additional $18.3 million if it complies with "tuition restraint."
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Guns on Campus Fails in 15 states
Thursday, July 21, 2011 (313 reads)
Jul 21, 2011/The Campaign to Keep Guns Off Campus
As most state legislatures’ sessions draw to a close, another component of the gun lobby’s extremist agenda - forcing hidden and loaded handguns onto college campuses hit a stiff wall of opposition in 2011, as 15 states defeated guns on campus legislation. All told, twenty three states introduced some form of legislation that would have forced colleges and universities to allow students and/or faculty to carry guns on campus. There were however, two setbacks in Mississippi and Wisconsin, where legislation was signed to allow the carrying of concealed weapons on certain parts of public campuses (among other public places).
Despite the setbacks in Mississippi and Wisconsin, major victories occurred this year in places like Arizona, Louisiana, Nevada and Texas. Perhaps the biggest defeat came in Texas, as nearly everyone, including the press, felt that guns on campus would be a lock this time around. However, student lead opposition, coupled with a strong network of gun violence survivors and others created an environment that delayed an eventual vote in the State Senate and may have prevented a vote in the State House (legislation passed the State Senate as an amendment, but was deemed non-germane in the House and never came up.)
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NMU Tuition Hike Best Outcome in Difficult Situation
Tuesday, July 19, 2011 (258 reads)
July 19, 2011/The Mining Journal
The Northern Michigan University Board of Trustees voted last week to increase tuition by 6.99 percent for the 2011-2012 academic year. While we're sorry to see the cost of higher education continue to inflate, we're glad the hike wasn't even more severe.
The tuition increase will mean resident undergrads will pay an additional $550 this year, increasing the annual total to $8,414.04.
We can sympathize with the plight of today's students, summarized by Justin Brugman, president of the Associated Students of Northern Michigan University. He said the tution hike would be a tough pill to swallow.
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Michael Boulus is Arab American of the Year
Monday, June 20, 2011 (334 reads)
June 19, 2011/Lansing State Journal
Michael Boulus of Okemos, executive director of the Presidents Council, State Universities of Michigan, has been named American Arab of the Year in Education by the American Arab Chamber of Commerce.
Boulus was recognized May 18 at the American Arab Celebrating Success Banquet held in Dearborn.
"I am sincerely humbled to receive this recognition," Boulus said. "I am immensely proud of the work that the Presidents Council does to enhance the role of public education in Michigan, and I am proud of my heritage as an Arab American.
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Michiganians of the Year - Wayne State University President
Thursday, June 02, 2011 (361 reads)
June 2, 2011/Detroit News
Allan Gilmour spent more than 30 years working at Ford Motor Co. When he became Wayne State University's 11th president, he instantly noted similarities between the two Metro Detroit institutions.
"I used to have a colleague at Ford who described the auto industry as both labor intensive — it takes a lot of people to run a big car company — and capital intensive: It takes a lot of money to develop the new products," he said.
"The same is true here. We're labor intensive in that … we have a very substantial professional work force. And on the capital side, the buildings cost money, the technical equipment costs money," he says. "We have both of those intense elements at work."
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Oakland University Provost Continues Cancer Research after Hours
Monday, May 16, 2011 (421 reads)
May 14, 2011/The Oakland Press
On any given day, Virinder Moudgil — upon finishing a full day’s work as provost for Oakland University — can be found after hours in Dodge Hall, working in his lab to study the effects of hormones on breast cancer cells.
“This is still home. Wilson Hall is work. This is home. And you’ve got to do both,” said Moudgil, who has been vice president for academic affairs and provost at the university since 2001.
Ted Montgomery, media relations director for Oakland, said Moudgil often works a 14- or 16-hour day.
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Senate Republicans Scrap University Tuition Restraint Clause
Tuesday, April 19, 2011 (410 reads)
April 19, 2011/Mlive.com
Day 108: This is one in a series of posts assessing key developments during Gov. Rick Snyder's self-imposed 182 days to chart a new course for Michigan by July 1. For earlier posts go to mlive.com/stateofchange.
Michigan’s 15 public universities would face a maximum 15 percent cut in state aid next year instead of the 22 percent proposed by Gov. Rick Snyder, according to the higher education budget bill approved by Senate subcommittee today.
Snyder’s budget included an $83 million pool of tuition restraint incentive funding to be awarded to schools that hold tuition to 7.1 percent, effectively reducing their cut to 15 percent. Senate Republicans today simply scrapped the restraint program and transferred the cash into the universities’ state aid base.
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As Fourth Anniversary of Virginia Tech Shooting Tragedy Approaches, Advocates Opposed to Guns on Campus Bills See Success
Friday, April 15, 2011 (447 reads)
April 15, 2011/PRNewswire-United Business Media
Bills fail in several states, while battle continues in Texas
Four years ago on April 16, 2007, Seung-Hui Cho, armed with two semiautomatic handguns and several hundred rounds of ammunition, shot and killed 32 people and wounded many more on the campus of Virginia Tech before killing himself.
The gun lobby's immediate reaction was to call for permitting the carrying of loaded handguns on college campuses. This year, legislation has been introduced in 20 states that would allow anyone with a concealed handgun permit, including students, to carry and possess loaded handguns on college campuses – in classrooms, sporting events, student dormitories and libraries. At this writing, guns on campus bills/proposals have been defeated in several states. Utah is currently the only state that forces its nine state- supported colleges and universities to allow guns on campus
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Western Michigan University Students, Faculty Protest Gov. Rick Snyder's Proposed Funding Cuts
Friday, April 15, 2011 (378 reads)
April 14, 2011/Kalamazoo Gazette KALAMAZOO — Students, faculty members and university organizations gathered on Western Michigan University's campus Thursday to protest Gov. Rick Snyder's proposed cuts to higher education.
Banging five-gallon buckets, they chanted, "They say cutbacks, we say fight back!"
Vincent Desroches, a WMU professor in the department of foreign languages, said his department has already had to cut part-time jobs and the number of courses being offered next school year as a result of Snyder's proposed budget.
He said the cutbacks will limit WMU's ability to educate first-generation college students, something the university prides itself on.
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Special Report: Jobs Available, Skills are Not
Thursday, April 14, 2011 (402 reads)
April 14, 2011/By The Center for Michigan
Like plenty of Michigan companies, Cignys, Inc. was forced to lay off workers as the state’s economy tanked during the Great Recession.
The Saginaw-based supplier of precision-machined products to the aerospace, defense and plastics industries is hiring again, though, as manufacturing enjoys a surprisingly strong rebound.
But there’s just one problem: Cignys can’t find enough welders, machinists and the other skilled-trades workers it needs to meet the accelerating demand for its products and services.
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Letters: Administration Costs Rise to Serve more Students Better
Monday, April 04, 2011 (212 reads)
Apr 3, 2011/Detroit Free Press
The Detroit Free Press' March 27 article on payroll spending at Michigan universities was wide of the mark in a number of ways, and it missed an extraordinary opportunity to give an insight into the real value of Michigan's universities to our state's economy.
The two most important misses: First, its failure to point out that the overriding reason for recent tuition increases is due to deep and dramatic cuts in state support, to the point where Michigan's taxpayer support is among the lowest in the nation, not due to the growth of university payrolls.
Second, the article's refusal to acknowledge that universities are adding capable administrators to oversee a growing demand by business leaders and government officials that they help lead the state's economic recovery.
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University President George Ross to State Legislators: Invest in Higher Education
Wednesday, March 30, 2011 (369 reads)
March 30, 2011/Central Michigan Life
University President George Ross testified before Michigan lawmakers today and urging them to invest in the state’s higher education.
Before the state House and Senate Appropriations Higher Education subcommittees, Ross spoke on Central Michigan University’s budget in response to Gov. Rick Snyder’s recently proposed 23.3-percent cut in funding to CMU, and said public universities need to be funded fairly and equitably.
“If I go back 30 years, 75 percent of our budget was funded by state appropriations,” Ross said. “If the proposed cut to the budget (gets approved), then we will have less than 15 percent.”
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Students, Workers Protest Higher Education Budget Cuts in Lansing
Monday, March 28, 2011 (397 reads)
March 28, 2011/The South End
Protesters enter capitol building, denied access to House chambers
LANSING – Students from the 15 public universities in Michigan and union workers from throughout the state marched down Michigan Avenue and gathered on the steps of the Capitol building March 24 to protest the proposed budget cuts to higher education.
With signs that read “Where’s the Funding?” and “Why does the ‘Nerd’ hate education?” students rallied against Gov. Rick Snyder’s proposed 15 percent cut, or $42 million, to higher education in Michigan.
One of the major concerns surrounding the proposed budget cuts include education only being available to the privileged. WSU Student Senate member Keely Czartorski spoke during the rally and said that higher education for students needs to be a higher priority if the goal is to re-invent Michigan.
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Senator Hosts Town Hall Meeting to Discuss Upcoming Budget Changes
Wednesday, March 23, 2011 (383 reads)
March 23, 2011/The Eastern Echo
Students, residents and councilmen all showed up to voice their concern and outrage about Gov. Snyder’s budget proposal Monday night at Washtenaw Community College.
Sen. Rebekah Warren – D, hosted the town hall meeting where she and panelists spoke and took questions about the budget. Panelists included Ypsilanti Mayor Paul Schreiber; Dedrick Martin, the Superintendent of the Ypsilanti School District; EMU accounting professor Howard Bunsis and Audrey Dowell, a University of Michigan graduate student in social work.
Warren opened the discussion by sharing facts about the proposed budget, the differences between it and the current budget and how the communities in Washtenaw County would be directly impacted by the changes.
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MSU President: Governor Snyder's Higher-ed Cuts Brutal
Wednesday, March 23, 2011 (376 reads)
March 23, 2011/Detroit Free Press
When Michigan State University started looking at the possibility of cuts to its state aid, it projected a 13 percent cut and the need for a 5 percent to 7 percent increase in tuition for students.
So when Gov. Rick Snyder announced his budget proposal, which would cut about 22 percent of state aid and then give universities 7 percent of that cut back if they held tuition increases under 7 percent, MSU was “between the foul poles” and not out of the stadium, MSU President Lou Ann Simon said following testimony before the state House appropriation committee’s higher education committee this morning.
“We believe we can make this work,” Simon told reporters. “That’s not to say it isn’t brutal.”
The higher education subcommittee is spending the month hearing testimony from the presidents of all 15 Michigan’s public universities. The presidents are talking about the cuts they’ve already made to their budgets and what could happen if they had to make more cuts.
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EMU President Rips Higher Ed Funding Cuts
Monday, March 21, 2011 (327 reads)
March 20, 2011/CBS Detroit
By Matt Roush
Eastern Michigan University President Susan Martin sounded themes of tuition restraint and fiscal responsibility and drew on her own life story and that of an EMU student March 16 in her annual testimony before Michigan lawmakers in Lansing.
Martin made an impassioned plea against the proposed cuts in state funding during her separate appearances before the house and senate appropriations subcommittees on higher education.
“Please do not cut public university funding by 21 percent,” Martin said of Governor Rick Snyder’s budget proposal. “Recognize the desperate need of our students for continued support to enable them to earn a college degree and not give up hope on a pathway to success.”
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The Value of a College Degree
Monday, March 14, 2011 (429 reads)
March 10, 2011/Michigan Future Inc.
Lots of folks have asked for my reaction to the recent Paul Krugman New York Times column that a college degree is less and less a path to good paying jobs and careers. Krugman argues that globalization and technology are reducing the demand for high skill American workers so that: It’s no longer true that having a college degree guarantees that you’ll get a good job, and it’s becoming less true with each passing decade.
The core Michigan Future belief is that globalization and technology are mega forces that are fundamentally changing the economy. And that those – both individuals and communities – who will do the best will be those who align with – rather than resist – new realities.
College educated workers are subject to the same realities that machines are increasingly able to do work that humans use to and that over time more and more workers across the planet will compete with us for jobs at all skill levels and in any industry where work can be digitized. Having a college degree doesn’t protect anyone from these mega forces.
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Oakland University's President Praised for Building Bonds with the Community
Sunday, March 13, 2011 (371 reads)
March 13, 2011
Gary Russi credits partnerships between Oakland University and various parts of the community for much of the school's growth, but many say he deserves a lot of credit.
"President Russi has had a strategic vision that we can and that we should grow," said Jay Meehan, chairman of the Department of Sociology and Anthropology.
Russi first came to OU in 1993 as vice president for academic affairs. In 1995, he was named interim president, then appointed president in 1996. He is one of the longest-serving presidents of Michigan's 15 public universities.
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GVSU's Thomas Haas to Lawmakers: Allowing Community Colleges to Offer Four-year Degrees Would be 'Unnecessary Duplication'
Wednesday, March 02, 2011 (373 reads)
March 02, 2011, 2:18 PM/The Grand Rapids Press
By Dave Murray
Allowing state community colleges to offer four-year degrees would be unnecessary duplication, Grand Valley State University President Thomas Haas told lawmakers today.
Haas testified before the state House Higher Education Subcommittee Wednesday morning and later appeared before a state Senate committee to answer questions about funding and academics.
Haas recently proposed that college funding be linked to meeting state goals for higher education, and told the House committee he's worried that state aid continues to shrink, forcing tuition increases.
“We are doing everything the Cherry Commission asked of us: access, affordability, relevant degrees for today’s job market, and continuous quality improvement,” he told representatives.
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Our Voice: More College Graduates would Help Michigan Grow, Prosper
Tuesday, March 01, 2011 (359 reads)
February 27, 2011/The Saginaw News
Perhaps the only good thing that can be said about the red ink flowing around the state is that it’s going to force leaders at every level to seek long-term solutions to ensure not only Michigan’s full economic recovery but future growth.
That must include making college affordable for all Michigan residents.
Yet, what we see is just the opposite. Gov. Rick Snyder proposes cuts in state spending on universities, and those schools eyeing more tuition increases to make up the money.
Instead, state and university leaders need to think outside those boxes.
For instance, a couple of years ago, two Democratic lawmakers proposed raising the state income tax from the 4.35 percent it was at the time to 5.5 percent, and giving a refund on tuition and fees to students of families earning less than $127,000 a year.
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Local Comment: For a richer state, Add Investments into Budget
Saturday, February 26, 2011 (374 reads)
Februrary 26, 2011/Detroit Free Press
Gov. Rick Snyder's budget seeks to find the bottom of Michigan's fiscal freefall by creating a simpler, fairer tax system, forcing action on long-standing legacy cost structures, and signaling that Michigan has a good business climate. He also proposes to tax retirement income like other income, rightly noting that a robust Michigan economy is more about making sure our children and grandchildren have a state in which they want to live, work and make their entrepreneurial careers than whether Michigan is a Cayman Island for retirees.
Yes, there is much to admire in Gov. Snyder's budget. But a good business climate and low taxes do not necessaily a richer state make.
Evidence is overwhelming that the richest states, with growing per capita income, are the ones that are the best educated. Eight of the 10 highest per capita income states have the highest education attainment rates.
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Cutting-edge Accelerator Project Lures Top Minds, Creates Jobs
Tuesday, January 18, 2011 (629 reads)
The Detroit Free Press/January 18, 2011
EAST LANSING -- It will be two years before ground is broken on the $600-million Facility for Rare Isotope Beams at Michigan State University. But already this haven for nuclear physics research, projected to inject $1 billion of economic activity into the state, is having an impact.
Some of the top minds in science have been recruited to MSU. Students in the nuclear physics graduate program are energized. And that program? It's now tops in the nation.
All this despite a lengthy construction timetable that won't have the facility running until 2020.
When it's done, it will house the world's most powerful heavy-ion accelerator, which will be 1,000 times more powerful than existing accelerators at MSU and capable of creating intense beams of rare isotopes. The implications are enormous, and the project is expected to lead to cutting-edge research in nuclear physics and medicine.
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Wayne State University names Allan Gilmour 11th President
Tuesday, January 18, 2011 (445 reads)
January 18, 2011/WSU Public Relations
DETROIT - The Board of Governors has ended its search for a permanent President, and has unanimously elected Allan Gilmour to serve as the 11th President of Wayne State University, effective immediately.
Gilmour began his tenure as Interim President on Aug. 30, 2010, and will continue as President through the 2012-2013 academic year.
President Gilmour, a graduate of Harvard University and the University of Michigan, is best known for his career at Ford Motor Company, from which he retired in 1995 as vice chairman. He rejoined the company as vice chairman in 2002, and retired again in 2005, having overseen Finance, the General Auditor's office, Human Resources, Corporate Affairs and Corporate Strategy. He also led Ford's financial services sector-Ford Motor Credit and Hertz Corporation.
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Gov. Rick Snyder Warns University Presidents of Short-term Sacrifice
Friday, January 14, 2011 (1030 reads)
January 14, 2011/AnnArbor.com
Michigan Gov. Rick Snyder didn’t tell the presidents of the state's 15 public universities what level of cuts are coming to their state aid in the next budget. But he did say that eventually, the state needs to invest more in higher education.
“The governor was clear about the difficult nature of the budget issues we all face, although he provided no details — and we did not expect any,” said Michigan Technological University President Glen Mroz, who is chairman of the Presidents Council, State Universities of Michigan, the group that put together the Wednesday meeting.
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Merit Network Announces REACH-3MC Webcast Update
Wednesday, January 12, 2011 (379 reads)
January 12, 2011/CBS Detroit
Ann Arbor-based Merit Network Inc. is offering an update on its REACH-3MC Internet access project for rural Michigan on the Web Wednesday, Jan. 19 at 2:30 p.m. Eastern time.
Merit has brought over $100 million in federal broadband investment to Michigan. During 2010, Merit received two grants from the National Telecommunications and Information Administration through the Broadband Technology Opportunities Program program, part of the federal stimulus.
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Universities Hopeful after Meeting with Snyder, but See Pain Ahead
Wednesday, January 12, 2011 (370 reads)
January 12, 2011/Gongwer News Michigan's public university presidents emerged hopeful of the long-term future after meeting Wednesday with Governor Rick Snyder and Department of Technology, Management and Budget Director John Nixon, but they also acknowledged they expect to see further budget pain in the upcoming years.
Neither Mr. Snyder nor Mr. Nixon, who met the presidents during a lunch meeting, would discuss budget specifics, said Mike Boulus, executive director of the Presidents Council, State Universities of Michigan.
In a statement, Michigan Technological University President Glen Mroz, who is chair of the council, said Mr. Snyder was "clear about the difficulty of the budget issues we all face."
And Mr. Boulus said the presidents expect there will be "some pain during the first couple of years" in terms of budget cuts.
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The Best Job Strategies Involve Education
Sunday, January 09, 2011 (363 reads)
January 9, 2011/Lansing State Journal There's growing optimism about hiring in key growth sectors of the Greater Lansing economy, including health care, financial services and technology.
Still, today's LSJ report on the region's job market captures sobering realities - facts that should make everyone more focused on the value of education.
Start with a drop of 12,000 jobs in the region between 2007 and November 2010 (the most recent statistics). Consider that many of the jobs in growth sectors require specialized education, usually at the college level. And the best jobs want that education along with experience in the field. The unskilled worker faces a daunting market.
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Nurture Entrepreneurs
Tuesday, December 14, 2010 (480 reads)
December 14, 2010/Detroit Free Press Editorial I agree with your premise that, as the second largest component of discretionary state spending, Michigan's university system of funding and oversight bears critical examination ("State universities need smarter governance," Nov 21).
Any informed observer must agree that our universities serve at least two vitally important and reinforcing needs in our state: To provide higher education to our children "which offers entry to high income and occupational choice in the adult world" and to act as a magnet for the knowledge-based employers we need to attract to Michigan.
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Self-sustaining Schools
Tuesday, December 14, 2010 (568 reads)
December 14, 2010/Detroit Free Press Editorial
By John Dunn
President Western Michigan University
The Free Press suggests Michigan's public universities would be better if governed through a statewide system. They contend this approach would reduce duplication and bring us in line with other great systems, such as that found in Wisconsin.
Having worked in several states with statewide systems, my experience is quite the contrary. If the goal is to increase costs, create bureaucracy, enhance political infighting, and reduce entrepreneurship and creativity, a system is the way to go.
While the idea of a statewide system might appeal to the ill-informed, I am appalled that the Free Press would venture a proposition that would so poorly serve Michigan's international reputation as a home of great universities. Wisconsin has two research universities, but Michigan has five. Wisconsin provides more money to its universities, but Michigan's universities produce more with less state support.
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Former Ford Exec Gilmour is Still High-Octane Leader
Wednesday, December 08, 2010 (494 reads)
December 6, 2010/Automotive News
As principal owner of Gilmour Ford-Chrysler in St. Johnsbury, Vt., Allan Gilmour is a heckuva dealer. But he's a lot more than that.
Since Gilmour retired from Ford Motor Co. the first time -- 16 years ago -- he has been a successful investor, a director of various companies, a trustee of many community and professional organizations and a philanthropist.
And now he's a university president.
In August, the 76-year-old Gilmour became interim president of Wayne State University in Detroit, while the school conducts a search for a new, permanent president.
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New Web Site Touts Michigan Places For Economic Development
Wednesday, December 01, 2010 (453 reads)
November 30, 2010/GLITR, Technology
It’s all about making Michigan communities “great places” to work and live.
That’s what organizers of the Great Place Network think. They created www.GreatPlaceNetwork.org, an interactive Web site intended to connect bright and imaginative job-creators, economic developers, regional and state policy makers, Michigan State University experts and the general public.
The Web site offers a platform for communities, regions, businesses, stakeholders and others to share great ideas and learn how to make great places, also known as placemaking. GreatPlaceNetwork.org features experts discussing placemaking issues ranging from economic development strategies to urban design to the arts.
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Survey: Parents Place far Higher Value on College Education Today than in 2005
Tuesday, November 09, 2010 (495 reads)
November 04, 2010/Business Review West Michigan
In a statewide survey of 500 households, 76 percent of respondents agreed that "everybody should get a college education." That compares with just 54 percent when the survey was first conducted in 2005.
Thirty-seven percent of responding parents said a college education is “essential” for getting ahead, versus 27 percent in 2005, and 52 percent says it’s “very important.”
And the number of parents who agreed that “people who have a college education are usually better off than people who don't” increased to 78 percent in 2010 from 63 percent in 2005.
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NASPA Selects Glenn Mroz for 2010 President’s Award
Tuesday, November 09, 2010 (492 reads)
November 8, 2010/Michigan Tech News
NASPA, a professional organization of student affairs administrators in higher education, honored Glenn D. Mroz, president of Michigan Technological University, with its 2010 NASPA Region IV-East President’s Award. The award was presented at a reception and gala at the NASPA Region IV-East annual meeting in Minneapolis on Sunday, Nov. 7, 2010.
He was recognized for his “demonstrated leadership in higher education and valuable contributions to Michigan Tech.”
“The student affairs professionals here tonight do so much: provide guidance, create opportunities and help students become the people our world needs,” said Mroz. “I cannot say enough about what you all do. Thank you for this recognition—I am truly honored.”
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Education Should be High Priority after Snyder Sworn in as Governor
Friday, November 05, 2010 (290 reads)
November 5, 2010/The Detroit News
When newly elected governor Rick Snyder steps into office, he will have many matters to address, including the state budget deficit and Michigan's high unemployment rate. But amid all the issues clamoring for his attention, education must be a priority.
The Michigan education system is hurting. The state suffers from a dire high school dropout rate in addition to having too few adult workers with a post-high school training. Reform needs to come from the top, and Snyder could provide the energy essential for real results.
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Michigan State Medical School Deal with Colleges Seeks to Address Growing Physician Shortage
Thursday, October 28, 2010 (588 reads)
October 25, 2010/Business Review West Michigan
Michigan State University’s agreements with three more colleges to set aside slots for qualified students who want to attend medical school aims to address a growing shortage of doctors.
Under the early assurance program, up to eight slots annually at MSU’s College of Human Medicine will go to pre-med students at Aquinas College, Calvin College and Hope College. The program is intended for students who want to serve in underserved areas of the state.
The idea is that students at those colleges, if they attend medical school in Michigan, are more apt to stay in the state for their residency or to practice medicine once they complete their training.
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The Reason Why We're Poorer
Monday, October 04, 2010 (576 reads)
October 3, 2010/Detroit News
Michigan's hemorrhaging of prosperity has little to do with the devastation of the domestic automobile industry, and a lot to do with our failure to prepare for that inevitability.
It's not about economics, it's about education.
"It's totally an education story," says Kurt Metzger, director of Data Driven Detroit. "Michigan could have weathered the economic collapse with a better-educated work force."
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State Funding for Colleges and Universities is Being Cut to Help Balance the State's Budget
Tuesday, September 28, 2010 (658 reads)
September 28, 2010/ABC News 12
Higher education will see a 2.8 percent reduction. Students at one local school are questioning why lawmakers are cutting their funding, all the while promoting education as a must to succeed.
In a 10-year span, funding per Saginaw Valley State University student has dropped almost $1,000. Some students are asking where the value is in that.
"Any kind of cut will affect all students, from sports to extra circular activities," said Zach Bauer.
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Higher Education: A Better Idea
Tuesday, September 28, 2010 (541 reads)
September 28, 2010/Michigan Future, Inc.
Every time the state gets into financial difficulty there are calls for some kind of centralization of the state’s higher education system. Led by the business community and editorial writers. It’s a bad idea! Hard to figure out since both groups argue that markets are better than centralization of both the private sector and k-12 education. If centralization doesn’t work in those sectors why would it work better in higher education?
Grand Valley President Thomas Haas does a terrific job in a recent Dome article making the case that more state control of higher ed is a bad idea. So if centralization is not the answer what is?
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Empowering the Citizens for the 2010 Michigan Elections
Friday, September 10, 2010 (156 reads)
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Michael Boulus addresses the importance of higher education in today's knowledge-based society.
MiVote.org -- Empowering the citizens for the 2010 Michigan elections.
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College Aid Offices Offer Students Tuition Help, Hope
Wednesday, September 01, 2010 (571 reads)
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.
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America's Best Colleges - Encouraging 'Crazy Ideas'
Wednesday, September 01, 2010 (676 reads)
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.
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Michigan Business Leaders Call for Universities to Share Services
Monday, August 23, 2010 (721 reads)
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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Dr. Jay Noren Resigns as 10th president of Wayne State University
Tuesday, July 20, 2010 (716 reads)
July 20, 2010/Wayne State University
The Board of Governors of Wayne State University today accepted with regret the resignation of Dr. Jay Noren as president, effective August 6, 2010. Dr. Noren has been Wayne State’s 10th president since August 1, 2008, after a distinguished career in higher education at a number of prominent universities.
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Students Picking Major by Matching Passion, Demand
Wednesday, July 07, 2010 (917 reads)
July 7, 2010/Detroit Free Press
Competition is so fierce for the physician assistant program at Western Michigan University that only 4% of the more than 900 people who applied for the master's-level program got in last year.
In fact, nearly all health-related programs statewide are experiencing surges in popularity.
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Factory Jobs Return, but Employers Find Skills Shortage
Tuesday, July 06, 2010 (724 reads)
July 1, 2010/The New York Times
By Motoko Rich
BEDFORD, Ohio — Factory owners have been adding jobs slowly but steadily since the beginning of the year, giving a lift to the fragile economic recovery. And because they laid off so many workers — more than two million since the end of 2007 — manufacturers now have a vast pool of people to choose from.
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A Tale of Cool Cities and Economic Revitalization
Tuesday, July 06, 2010 (629 reads)
June 20, 2010/Kalamazoo Gazette Editorial Board
Metro areas are key to future prosperity for Michigan
As Michigan charts a course to prosperity, one of the toughest sells on the west side of the state may be the notion of any major investment in the east side.
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Will Michigan Gain Passion for Learning?
Tuesday, July 06, 2010 (561 reads)
June 8, 2010/Lansing State Journal
By Derek Melot
Michigan Future has plan for growth; anyone care?
Lou Glazer and Don Grimes have a simple analysis for what has happened to Michigan in the last decade:
Jobs that require high levels of education are still around. Jobs that don't are vanishing.
Michigan has long relied on the latter to drive its economy and it remains poorly positioned to rely more on the former.
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Prescription for Growth, Former Pfizer Complex to Boost U-M Research, State’s Economy
Wednesday, June 30, 2010 (529 reads)
June 16, 2010/Dome Magazine
Joan Keiser navigates a group of visitors through the empty labyrinths of the massive former Pfizer research complex in Ann Arbor with such ease, it seems as if she could do it blindfolded.
Keiser got to know the 30-building complex well, having spent more than a decade working there, the last five years as Pfizer’s vice-president for cardiovascular and metabolic disease research.
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Don't Turn Community Colleges into Four-year Schools
Monday, June 21, 2010 (495 reads)
June 21, 2010/The Detroit News
This month state lawmakers are expected to vote on the passage of legislation that would allow Michigan community colleges to grant four-year degrees in select high-need job areas. Lawmakers would be wrong to vote for these bills, yet they should also continue to pressure public universities to expand their capacity to provide training in these skills.
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UM, WMU Solar Car Teams Gear Up To Race 1,100 Miles
Wednesday, June 16, 2010 (627 reads)
June 15, 2010/GLITR
In a solar-powered vehicle that reached 100 mph in testing, the University of Michigan Solar Car Team is aiming for a third consecutive North American title. The team is in Cresson, Texas, this week testing the car in preparation for the 2010 American Solar Challenge, which begins June 20.
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Universities Offer More Collaboration with Colleges
Wednesday, June 09, 2010 (505 reads)
June 9, 2010/Gongwer News
The state's public universities have offered to work even more with its community colleges to bring baccalaureate degrees to more communities, but the colleges said the offer does not go far enough.
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Underwater Power Concept From UM Wins Student Idea Contest
Friday, May 21, 2010 (538 reads)
May 21, 2010/GLITR
A concept to put underwater power generation equipment throughout Michigan became the top winner Monday of Motivate Michigan, a corporate-sponsored collegiate competition to generate ideas to improve Michigan's economy.
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Site Shows Kids Way to College
Sunday, April 18, 2010 (868 reads)
April 18, 2010/The Detroit News
My mother wanted me to go to college. My father wanted me to be a plumber. Had he been around to watch me fix a dripping faucet by removing both the sink and countertops, he likely would have been in rare agreement with mom.
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Federal Financial-aid Bill Offers Students Some Relief
Monday, March 29, 2010 (922 reads)
March 29, 2010/Detroit Free Press
Changes coming to the world of college lending could mean less confusion for students taking out federal loans, more flexibility in repaying those loans,more money for Pell Grants and more students being eligible for the grants.
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Students Take Break from Books to Protest
Friday, March 26, 2010 (684 reads)
March 26, 2010/WNEM.COM
On Thursday, March 25, the Student Association of Michigan held a rally at the Capitol and students from almost all 15 public four-year universities attended the event. Their goal was to make legislators aware that higher education has to be a higher priority and that they should do the right thing. View here.
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MTU Students Join Protest Against State Education Cuts
Thursday, March 25, 2010 (791 reads)
March 24, 2010/GLITR
How far will university students go to make their voices heard in Lansing?
When it comes to Michigan Technological University, in the northwestern corner of the Upper Peninsula, it's about 490 miles.
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Funding Higher Education is Vital for Michigan's Future
Monday, March 15, 2010 (855 reads)
March 13, 2010/Grand Rapids Press By Thomas Haas
In recent days, there has been much in The Press, on news and editorial pages, about public higher education, with some writers questioning the state’s obligation to make it available to Michigan’s citizens. There is no doubt about this obligation because it is spelled out in Article VIII of the Michigan Constitution.
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Q&A: Sean Mann on Saving Michigan
Wednesday, February 10, 2010 (889 reads)
February 10, 2010/Time-The Detroit Blog Who would want to save Michigan? Plenty of people, it turns out. One of them is 29-year-old Sean Mann, founder of “Let's Save Michigan,” a web site, blog and much more.
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Graduate to a Smarter State
Sunday, January 31, 2010 (705 reads)
Detroit Free Press/January 31, 2010
The charts on today's editorial page tell a story. It's an important story, and some would argue it's the only story you need to understand what has happened to Michigan in the last two generations.
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It's Students' Turn to Shape Recovery
Sunday, January 31, 2010 (740 reads)
January 31, 2010/Detroit Free Press
Everyone's familiar with the challenges we face in Michigan as we confront a dramatically declining manufacturing economy.
How to replace the loss of hundreds of thousands of jobs and keep young people here?
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The Dark Ages
Thursday, January 14, 2010 (1007 reads)
Jan. 14, 2010/The Economist As America hopes for recovery, Michigan needs whole-scale reinvention. It may be 15 years before the state returns to prosperity.
A new hope?
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UM Dearborn In Sync With Ford
Wednesday, January 13, 2010 (919 reads)
January 13, 2010/Great Lakes IT Report
Six engineering students at the University of Michigan-Dearborn were invited to be among the first developers to adapt Ford Motor Company’s new Sync application programming interface for in-car voice-controlled Smartphone mobile apps.
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Merit Network Celebrates Completion of 'Blue Line'
Wednesday, January 13, 2010 (706 reads)
January 13, 2010/Great Lakes IT ReportAfter four years and hundreds of miles of fiber-optic cable, Merit Network engineers lit the fiber-optic cable between Mount Pleasant and Big Rapids on Dec. 12 to complete the "Blue-Line" portion of the Merit backbone network.
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Michigan's Economic Slump Opens Doors for Interns
Wednesday, January 13, 2010 (1021 reads)
January 12, 2010/Detroit News
More Michigan companies are offering internships as a cost-effective way to develop new talent and get the job done as they struggle to make payroll and are forced to cut staff amid the lingering recession, experts say.
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Rebuttal: Stop College Nursing Mission Creep
Friday, December 11, 2009 (879 reads)
December 3, 2009/The Detroit News The Detroit News editorial board is well known as a voice for fiscal common sense. That's why the board's support for allowing two-year community colleges to expand into four-year nursing programs -- and other degrees -- is quite perplexing ("Expand nursing schools," Nov. 20).
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Homecoming for CMU's New President
Friday, December 04, 2009 (824 reads)
December 4, 2009/The Detroit News
Central Michigan University's new president will come back to the campus he left to take a job leading Alcorn State University in Mississippi.
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NMU Student's Photos Featured in Lansing Exhibit
Tuesday, December 01, 2009 (829 reads)
November 24, 2009/NMU News Release MARQUETTE, Mich.—Northern Michigan University student Joseph Sobel’s “Untitled” photographs are on display in the Anderson House in Lansing as part of the fifth annual Arts in the House exhibit.
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Michigan's Broken 'Promise'
Monday, November 23, 2009 (854 reads)
November 23, 2009/Wall Street Journal Michigan Gov. Jennifer Granholm, squaring off against Republican lawmakers, has launched a campaign to salvage a $100 million college-scholarship program that she sees as critical to diversifying her state's flagging economy.
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Professors of the Year Are Celebrated for Innovative Teaching
Friday, November 20, 2009 (1099 reads)
November 19, 2009/The Chronicle of Higher Education
The Presidents Council congratulates UM's professor Brian P. Coppola, professor of chemistry at UM-Ann Arbor on being chosen as one of four professors from across the country to receive the 2009 US Professor of the Year award by the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching and the Council for Advancement and Support of Education.
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Students Stung by Promise Cuts
Friday, November 20, 2009 (833 reads)
November 20, 2009/The Detroit News
Some students get help from colleges, others left searching for funds
With just weeks before the end of the fall semester many college students are unsure if Promise Scholarship money will be available for next term or how they might replace the funding.
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Granholm Recruits for Student Aid Battle
Thursday, November 19, 2009 (760 reads)
November 19, 2009/Detroit Free Press
Gov. Jennifer Granholm stepped up her campaign Wednesday to put public pressure on the Senate -- especially Senate Republicans -- to restore the Michigan Promise Scholarship program, which was eliminated in the new state budget.
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Michigan Can Mend its Broken Promise
Thursday, November 19, 2009 (807 reads)
November 19, 2009/Detroit Free Press
Unfortunately, an important promise to Michigan's college students has been broken, but we hope only temporarily.
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Granholm Visits Colleges to Stump for Promise Grants
Thursday, November 19, 2009 (738 reads)
November 19, 2009/Detroit News
East Lansing -- Gov. Jennifer Granholm took her case to restore funding for Promise Grants to college campuses today, scolding lawmakers for taking time off without resolving the issue.
The Promise Grants to about 96,000 college students were cut out of the state budget as legislators tried to find ways to fill a $2.8 billion deficit.
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Guns on Campus Terrible Policy
Friday, November 06, 2009 (1007 reads)
Nov. 6, 2009/Traverse City Record-Eagle Wayne Schmidt and Michelle McManus have drawn plenty of criticism for recent legislation that would expand people's rights to carry concealed weapons in public places and prevent the state's public universities, colleges and community colleges from banning concealed weapons on campus.
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A Tech Tour-Like Friday At Wayne State University
Sunday, November 01, 2009 (1002 reads)
November 1, 2009/Great Lakes IT Report Twice a year I head off for the hinterlands of Michigan on the Great Lakes IT Report Tech Tours.
As you might know by now, the fall tech tour has a back-to-school theme and deals with university tech transfer and research spinoffs.
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Education cuts: More 'brain drain'
Saturday, October 03, 2009 (905 reads)
October 3, 2009/Grand Rapids Business Journal
As young professionals continue to leave Michigan, efforts are underway to stop the "brain drain."
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Tech tour Day Eight: MSU's Magnificent
Thursday, October 01, 2009 (1085 reads)
October 1, 2009/Great Lakes IT Report
The phrase 'world class' gets tossed around so much it's almost lost meaning.
But if the phrase still means anything, you've got to hand it to Michigan State University, whose sprawling campus, 47,000 sharp students and 5,000 faculty cover every academic discipline worth covering with uniform excellence.
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Promises to Keep? Not in Government
Thursday, September 24, 2009 (827 reads)
Thursday, September 24, 2009/Detroit Free Press
OK, so maybe it wasn't such a great idea to call it a Promise grant. Maybe, back in the days when Michigan had so much money that legislators could afford to hand out some of it to middle-class students (even after paying off the insurance companies, cable TV operators and beer and wine distributors who were first in line), the folks who dreamed up the idea of funding a scholarship program in which virtually every high school junior with a pulse would be eligible should have called it the While-Supplies-Last Grant.
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The Union of Town and Gown
Sunday, September 20, 2009 (756 reads)
Entrepreneur October 2009
To block brain drain and enrich economics, more universities and cities are linking up in creative entrprenuerial initiatives. Here's a look at 10 that are leading the class.
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GVSU President Thomas Haas: Higher education is vital for Michigan's future
Wednesday, September 16, 2009 (884 reads)
The Grand Rapids Press/September 16, 2009 The state of Michigan is in the most desperate financial condition in its modern history. It is the kind of crisis that should bring political leaders together for the betterment of our 10 million fellow citizens. There is still time for good will, and good sense, to prevail.
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Countdowntochaos.org returns: Time short for legislature to finish budget
Wednesday, September 16, 2009 (755 reads)
September 10, 2009
While cities and school districts around the state have completed their budgets for 2009-10, while universities have their budgets done, while nonprofits wait to be reimbursed for the services they have provided, the State of Michigan continues to drags its feet with only days left before the Sept. 30 budget deadline. .......Visit the Countdown to Chaos website here
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UM Tops $1 Billion Research Spending for First Time
Tuesday, September 15, 2009 (762 reads)
WWJ Newsradio 950/September 15, 2009
Research spending at the University of Michigan in 2008-09 exceeded $1 billion for the first time, a milestone that highlights the university's role as an economic resource benefitting the entire state.
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CMU Opens New Education, Human Services Building
Tuesday, September 15, 2009 (801 reads)
WWJR Newsradio/September 15, 2009
Thousands of students, faculty and staff are settling into Central Michigan University's new Education and Human Services Building -- a facility that has opened doors for advanced educational opportunities for our students rich with innovative technologies, larger classrooms and new learning spaces.
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CMU Startup Harnessing Human Body 'Biopower'
Sunday, September 13, 2009 (807 reads)
WWJ Newsradio 950/September 13, 2009
Who could have conceived of harnessing power that’s available right in a human body?
Bio-Nano Power, at tenant at Central Michigan University Research Corp.'s business accelerator, did just that.
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MSU Restructuring Program Highlights University Cost Control Efforts
Friday, September 04, 2009 (1022 reads)
Gongwer News Service/September 4, 2009
A major announcement by Michigan State University President Lou Anna Simon of a restructuring program that could cut Michigan's largest university's budget by 10 percent over the next two years, along with refocusing its programs, is just the latest in an ongoing effort by the state's public colleges to help control costs, officials said.
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All Merit Member Eligible Organizations in Michigan are Now Connected to the Internet2 Network
Thursday, September 03, 2009 (767 reads)
September 3, 2009
ANN ARBOR, MI - As of September 1, 2009, schools, libraries, higher education institutions, museums, and government agencies across Michigan that connect to Merit's network are now connected to the nation's high-performance network, Internet2. As part of a collaborative effort by Merit Network and Internet2, all organizations that are eligible for Sponsored Education Group Participant (SEGP) connectivity in Michigan can now use the Internet2 Network for high-bandwidth applications, innovative educational programs, and connectivity to other Internet2-connected organizations across the United States.
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Wayne State To Open Biz Assistance Centers
Tuesday, September 01, 2009 (888 reads)
Great Lakes IT Report/September 1, 2009
In early September, Wayne State University will open Business Assistance Centers in Wayne, Oakland and Macomb counties to aid small businesses and nonprofit organizations with such things as developing business strategy, marketing studies, financial projections and info tech support.
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MFRP Responds to "Americans for Prosperity"
Monday, August 31, 2009 (718 reads)
MFRP responds to “Americans for Prosperity” support for cuts in veterans programs, Meals on Wheels, law enforcement, larger class sizes in Michigan elementary and high schools, higher college tuition, end to the Michigan Promise Scholarship and more.
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Bauer: Scholarship cuts will weaken Michigan
Sunday, August 30, 2009 (790 reads)
Lansing State Journal/August 30, 2009
As the Oct. 1 deadline to resolve the state's budget deficit draws nearer, my colleagues and I are looking at ways to resolve a budget deficit of almost $2 billion. With a deficit this size, it's imperative that we work across the aisle to find ways to put our state back on sound financial footing. We have many difficult decisions to make in the days ahead, and we need everybody at the table to get Michigan on the right track.
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What Makes a State Prosperous
Tuesday, August 25, 2009 (1140 reads)
President of Michigan Future, Inc., Lou Glazer talks about what makes a state prosperous. Click here to view the video on Michigan Future's homepage.
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Boulus: Budget mess is product of state's tax decisions
Monday, August 24, 2009 (797 reads)
Lansing State Journal/August 9, 2009
Among the most knowledgeable people in Michigan about the state budget are the directors of the nonpartisan House and Senate fiscal agencies.
So when Gary Olson, director of the Senate Fiscal Agency, recently said Michigan's annual budget crisis is not the result of the state's 9-year-old recession, he's worth listening to.
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WSU offers details on $5M electric vehicle grant
Thursday, August 13, 2009 (913 reads)
Great Lakes IT Report/August 13, 2009
As part of President Barack Obama’s economic recovery plan, the United States Department of Energy awarded Wayne State University a $5 million federal grant to provide an electric vehicle engineering education and workforce training program.
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EMU President: Budgetary Stability Critical
Tuesday, August 11, 2009 (834 reads)
Gongwer News/August 11, 2009 Michigan residents now see that getting higher education is critical to ensuring a stable financial base in their personal lives, but that comes at a time when the state's universities confront fiscal stability as their biggest worry, said Susan Martin, Eastern Michigan University president.
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Higher Ed's Lobbyist Stays Positive Despite Tough Budget Battles
Thursday, July 16, 2009 (823 reads)
Dome Magazine/July 16, 2009
Could higher education get much lower? Legislators want to chop state spending on higher education...During the last five years, Michigan has dropped to 50th place among the states in higher education appropriations. Read the article in July, 2009 Dome on Michael Boulus
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Michigan must reform its spending
Wednesday, July 08, 2009 (1013 reads)
Detroit News/July 8, 2009
It's hard to think about a report that projects another 311,000 jobs lost in Michigan over the next 18 months as good news. But at least the latest economic forecast from the University of Michigan sees an end to this long, dreadful slide.
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Community Colleges Challenge Hierarchy With 4-Year Degrees
Monday, May 04, 2009 (1063 reads)
MIAMI — When LaKisha Coleman received her associate’s degree at Miami Dade Community College six years ago, her best bet for a bachelor’s degree seemed to be at the more expensive Florida International University.
But nowadays, Miami Dade College — the “Community” has been dropped — offers bachelor’s degrees in teaching and nursing and public safety management, and will soon add engineering technology, film production and others. Ms. Coleman returned to Miami Dade two years ago and is about to graduate with a degree in public safety management.
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Granholm plans Web site with college info
Wednesday, April 29, 2009 (985 reads)
Lansing State Journal/April 29, 2009 The Michigan College Access Network will launch in fall 2010. It will let students research many aspects of the state's colleges, such as scholarships, application requirements, financial aid options and virtual campus tours, said Brenda Hunt, chairwoman of the community foundation task force for the College Access Network. She also is president of the Battle Creek Community Foundation.
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Higher-ed partnerships are easing some of state's pain
Friday, April 24, 2009 (1053 reads)
Conway Jeffress and Thomas J. Haas • April 14, 2009
One bright spot emerging during Michigan's troubled times is increased collaboration between our community colleges and public universities. All across Michigan, the transition from community colleges to public universities is becoming easier and easier, and students couldn’t be happier.
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MSU students: Graduate education key to state’s economic development
Tuesday, April 21, 2009 (981 reads)
April 20, 2009 EAST LANSING, Mich. — From environmental protection to employment to quality of life, graduate education plays an important role in Michigan’s economic development, according to Michigan State University graduate students who will discuss their research with state legislators during Michigan Graduate Education Day.
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Michigan income ranking falls 11 percent below national average; weakest since 1929
Friday, April 17, 2009 (1480 reads)
Rick Haglund | Detroit Bureau
Tuesday April 14, 2009
The loss of more than 350,000 manufacturing jobs over the past decade, many of them in the auto industry, has depressed the state's per capita income to 11 percent below the national average. That is the lowest level since the federal government started collecting data in 1929.
To Read the Michigan Future Report click here
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Half of University Grads Flee Michigan
Sunday, April 12, 2009 (1474 reads)
Detroit News - April 3, 2009
At a time when Granholm is pushing to double the number of college grads, the number of grads leaving the state has doubled instead. Half of Michigan's college grads now leave the state within a year of graduation, taking with them their diplomas and the talent needed to help rebuild Michigan's economy.
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Michigan Intern Web Site Connects Employers, Students
Thursday, April 02, 2009 (1066 reads)
Business Review Western Michigan -- March 31, 2009
A first-of-its-kind initiative matches employers and interns across the state, with a goal of keeping college graduates in Michigan. InternInMichigan.com, which went live March 2, is an internship portal where employers can post internship positions and students can post resumes. The Detroit Regional Chamber will run the initiative and fund it through a WIRED grant, a federal economic-development program meant to develop a more highly skilled work force.
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University of Michigan team wins Clean Energy Prize
Sunday, March 29, 2009 (1097 reads)
Crain's Detroit Business- March 23, 2009
A student team that developed a plan to use algae to simultaneously treat wastewater and produce raw material for biofuels has won a top prize in a competition established by DTE Energy Co. and the University of Michigan.
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Michigan University Presidents want Higher-ed Investment
Tuesday, March 24, 2009 (910 reads)
The Associated Press - March 03, 2009
LANSING -- A larger state investment in higher education would boost Michigan's troubled economy and help keep college affordable, the presidents of Michigan's three largest research universities said Tuesday.
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MFRP: A Factual Look at Balancing the State Budget
Monday, March 23, 2009 (891 reads)
Lansing State Journal
As the Lansing State Journal seeks input from readers on how best to balance the state’s budget, it is important that readers and Journal staff take a step back and look at what has already happened to the state’s budget this decade.
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Michigan has Plenty of Ideas for Tax Reform, but no Consensus
Friday, March 20, 2009 (919 reads)
Lansing Bureau- March 22, 2009
The backdrop for the tax-cutting is a Michigan economy in shambles and the assertion that the state has to make dramatic repairs.That effort apparently began Thursday when the civic group Detroit Renaissance huddled with legislative leaders to discuss improvements in Michigan's business climate. A goal, said House Speaker Andy Dillon, is to agree on serious change in these "serious times."
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Higher Ed Leaders Push Again Against Cuts
Tuesday, March 03, 2009 (894 reads)
Gongwer News Service - March 03, 2009
With what is becoming their calling card message, higher education officials Tuesday equated advanced degrees with economic prosperity, telling lawmakers on the House Appropriations Higher Education Subcommittee that tuition freezes and cuts to state funding won't allow them to continue to attract money and jobs to Michigan.
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State University Presidents want Higher-Ed Investment
Tuesday, March 03, 2009 (912 reads)
Detroit Free Press - March 03, 2009
The presidents of Michigan’s three largest universities — touting their institutions as a key to Michigan’s economic recovery — asked lawmakers today to stop the erosion of state support for higher education.
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University Presidents Lobby Lansing for Funding
Tuesday, March 03, 2009 (941 reads)
The Detroit News - March 03, 2009
LANSING -- The state's three largest universities are a powerful economic engine for the state, but the Legislature needs to invest in higher education to ensure continued progress and access for all students, presidents of University of Michigan, Michigan State University and Wayne State University said Tuesday morning.
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Rethink Budget Moves on Ag Programs
Monday, March 02, 2009 (896 reads)
Lansing State Journal - March 04, 2009
Gov. Jennifer Granholm's proposal to cut funding for the MSU Extension has riled some in the agricultural field, Michigan's second-largest industry. It's not the first time the governor has proposed such reductions.
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