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Statement by Daniel Hurley, CEO of the Michigan Association of State Universities on Consensus Revenue Estimating Conference

In Press releases, May 27, 2021

A Tale of Two Capital Cities

In OPtimizing EDucation, by Mia Murphy May 26, 2021

My colleague Dan Hurley posted earlier this week about a major national study that reaffirms the direct role state investment in higher education has in determining student outcomes at public universities. This investment helps draws students to campuses by keeping education…

The Peril of State Disinvestment in Michigan’s Public Universities

In OPtimizing EDucation, by Dan Hurley May 25, 2021

The leaders of Michigan’s 15 public universities and the team here at MASU have long contended that there are real consequences for the state’s disinvestment in higher education over the past twenty years, which has seen a more than 40% reduction in state funding per student. As…

May 21, 2021 • This Week

In This Week, May 21, 2021

Higher Ed 101: Mission Critical, Part 2

In OPtimizing EDucation, by Mia Murphy May 18, 2021

The last time I wrote about public university missions, it was to give the reader a sense of university history and founding purposes. As I pointed out in that last post, what universities do now is even today often conditional on what they were originally established to do.…