UM: State Funding

Michigan Live political columnist Peter Luke reports on a state Senate subcommittee’s rejection of a cut in university funding that Gov. Rick Snyder had previously proposed. While Snyder initially proposed a 22% cut to funding for Michigan’s 15 public universities, a higher education budget bill approved in subcommittee on Tuesday calls for a maximum of 15% in cuts next year. The Senate bill also scrapped a clause that would have forced universities, including the University of Michigan, to file reports with the legislature on their stem cell reasearch activities. [Source]