WSU, UM, MSU push for separate funding.(Wayne State University, the University of Michigan and Michigan State University, government aid to education)

Crain's Detroit Business, May, 2006 by Lane, Amy

Byline: Amy Lane Michigan's three largest research universities are pitching for separate consideration as lawmakers slice up funding for higher education. Wayne State University, the University of Michigan and Michigan State University want lawmakers to consider unique factors at their institutions.

Those include the cost of medical schools, their role in state and local economic improvement, and efforts to improve graduation rates relative to comparable national universities, not necessarily their Michigan peers. "The three universities have cost structures that are astronomically different than the other 12,'' said Harvey Hollins III, Wayne State's vice president of government and community affairs. "It would make sense to put the three universities...