Higher Education Policy Priorities for Strengthening the State Universities’ Ability to Serve Michigan
The policy recommendations discussed below represent a guiding framework within which the state’s public universities can successfully fulfill their missions while ensuring public accountability, academic quality, and fiscal sustainability. Issues presented here are commonly deliberated in state legislatures throughout the U.S. and have on occasion surfaced here in Michigan. This fifth edition of the Michigan Higher Education Public Policy Agenda is tailored to Michigan and its unique policy-setting context and is reflective of issues that have been discussed in the state’s public policy domain in recent years. This public policy agenda is updated as warranted by evolving state needs and opportunities.
Policymakers should consider public universities integral partners in the development of higher education-related state policy. Furthermore, given the intellectual and analytical resources they house, these institutions will continue to serve as indispensable resources in informing the development and reform of other state policies and programs across the state’s public policy spectrum.
View the executive summary here. (download PDF)
View the full report here.
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