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Q&A: Sean Mann on Saving Michigan
Wednesday, February 10, 2010 (97 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 (39 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 (85 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 (130 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 (137 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 (40 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 (143 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 (198 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 (139 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 (143 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 (183 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 (129 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 (170 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 (127 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 (134 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 (101 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 (230 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 (226 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 (297 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 (335 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 (211 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 (197 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 (271 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 (221 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 (172 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 (170 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 (176 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 (313 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 (211 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 (216 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 (171 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 (221 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 (263 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 (212 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 (284 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 (258 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 (206 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 (375 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 (440 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 (374 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 (443 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 (400 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 (618 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 (659 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 (414 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 (320 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 (360 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 (316 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 (335 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 (327 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 (327 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 (347 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 (323 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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