Collaborating for Efficiency and Quality - a Report on the Collaborative Efforts of Michigan Public Universities
This report highlights the public universities' collaborative efforts to maximize effiiciency and reduce costs.

Disaggregating the Truth: A Re-analysis of the Costs and Benefits of Michigan’s Public Universities
This report re-analyzes national data to demonstrate that Michigan’s public universities have made cuts to instruction, student services and academic services during a period of declining state support. It also calls into question the Mackinac report suggesting that investment in higher education is negatively related to economic growth.

Five Year Summary of Disinvestment in Michigan

Report on State University Appropriations
Prepared by House Fiscal Agency Senior Fiscal Analyst Kyle Jen, the report provides historical information for fiscal years 1983-84 to FY 2006-07 and includes data on university appropriations and funding methods.

The Vital Center: A Federal-State Compact to Renew the Great Lakes Region
This study takes a comprehensive look at the economic history of the Great Lakes region and assesses its currents assets and the challenges the region must overcome in order to make it a global destination hub in the future. Authored by John Austin, Brookings Institution Nonresident Senior Fellow and Brittany Affolter-Caine, doctoral student in the Center for the Study of Higher and Postsecondary Education at U-M.

A Look at Michigan's Emerging New Economy
A study prepared by Lansing-based Public Policy Associates which illustrates Michigan's evolution to the new knowledge economy. Among the study's conclusion is that stronger state investment in the state's transportation, communications and educational infrastructure and nurturing cultural values as they pertain to innovation and entrepreneurship are critical to continued emergence into the new economy.

A New Agenda for a New Michigan
A report by Ann Arbor-based Michigan Future, Inc. that articulates strategies for positioning Michigan for success in a knowledge-driven and entrepreneurial economy. Chief among the proposed strategies is greater support for the state's higher education institutions.
June 2006

Presidents Council Report to the Public, 2005-2006
A composite sketch of the collective achievements and goals of the State Universities of Michigan

A Roadmap to Michigan's Future: Meeting the Challenge of a Global Knowledge-Driven Economy
A Strategic Roadmapping Exercise
James J. Duderstadt, Project Director
The Millenium Project
The University of Michigan
September 2005

Report of the Cherry Commission on Higher Education and Economic Growth

Michigan's Future is in College

Presidents Council Study on Net Tuition Costs
A comprehensive study showing that the actual price of resident undergraduate tuition at Michigan's public universities has actually declined from FY 1998 through FY 2003

Appendices accompanying Study on Net Tuition Costs
Appendix 5-Table 3B: Best Approximation of "Net Tuition Costs" using HEIDI Profile Sheets

Appendix 6-Table 4B: Best Approximation of "Net Tuition Costs" using HEIDI Section 710 Report


University Investment Commission Report
An overview of key issues in Michigan higher education, prepared by a commission of Michigan business and political leaders.


Economic Impact Study
Find out how Michigan's public universities contribute $39 billion to the state's economy.


House Fiscal Agency Report
The Long View: State University Enrollments, Revenues, and Expenditures
FY 1977 through FY 2002
A report to the House Appropriations Subcommittee on Higher Education
Produced by Dr. Hank Prince, Michigan House Fiscal Agency
December 2003

Annual Enrollment Reports

The Presidents Council maintains a file of detailed enrollment data for each year since 1966. Email questions@pcsum.org to request a report older than those posted here.

2007 (pdf) 2006 (pdf) 2005 (pdf) 2004 (pdf) 2003 (pdf) 2002 (pdf) 2001 (pdf) 2000 (pdf)

Tuition and Fees Reports

FY 2007-08 Tuition & Fees Report (pdf)
FY 2006-07 Tuition & Fees Report (pdf)
FY 2005-06 Tuition & Fees Report (pdf)
FY 2004-05 Tuition & Fees Report (pdf)
FY 2003-04 Tuition & Fees Report (pdf)
FY 2002-03 Tuition & Fees Report (pdf)
FY 2001-02 Tuition & Fees Report (pdf)

Presidents Council - State University Data

Charts on often requested data pertaining to enrollment, state appropriations, tuition and more.