Michigan Needs Transparency Legislation Now!

Michigan's 3 big universities will soon have special budget status, enabling them to receive more taxpayer dollars without citizen oversight.  Instead of throwing money at education, Michigan taxpayers deserve to know what colleges are spending their hard-earned tax dollars on.

From the Detroit News:

Michigan's Big 3 universities to get special budget status

Mark Hornbeck AND GARY HEINLEIN / Detroit News Lansing Bureau

LANSING -- For the first time, Michigan's three largest research universities will get special recognition in the state budget.

A House-Senate conference committee on higher education today unanimously approved the $1.9 billion budget for the 15 public universities, including a provision that places University of Michigan, Michigan State University and Wayne State University into a separate class as major research institutions.

The Big Three will not get any additional money this year -- they'll get the same 1 percent increase as the other dozen state universities -- but their status could net them more funding in the future as the state attempts to set up a collaborative college research triangle for economic development similar to a successful set-up in North Carolina, with Duke University, University of North Carolina and North Carolina State University.


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