“Education has taken the assembly line’s place as our state’s most vital tool,” says Rob Schwartz, an idealistic young man who recently entered the Envision Michigan story contest.
If that’s true, then the dryly titled “State University Summary Data” published by the Michigan House and Senate Fiscal Agencies is a quick look at what’s happening along that new assembly line.
The bottom line: lean state budgets have been very unkind to state universities in recent years.
And, students are bearing the brunt of the pain.
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Privatize all of Michigan’s higher education and fund our citizen’s based on their financial need – let the market control costs. Then add a tax incentive for employers who pay the educational loan for employees whom they hire that are Michigan citizen’s who have graduated from a Michigan non-profit college or university.
No need to pump more tax dollars into our bureaucracies – invest in our citizens instead.