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...Michigan is looking to save money any way it can, and some political leaders have suggested essentially privatizing the state's flagship university. While formally turning the school into a private university would be tricky - requiring legislative approval, a constitutional amendment, and the support of the university's Board of Regents - legislators have proposed eliminating the $327 million in funding that the state provides to the university each year. Making up the state's contribution, however, would require an endowment on the order of $16 billion, a nearly impossible task even in flush times. (Just a few years...
...state's financial role has in fact been shrinking throughout the past decade as its economy foundered. Last year, the university provost's office complained in a report to the Board of Regents that the state's "assumed allocation will put our state appropriation at a level that is almost $34 million lower than the amount that was appropriated for FY2002, in nominal dollars, and nearly $100 million lower in inflation-adjusted dollars." At the same time, the university has helped prop up the struggling local economy by approving more than $500 million in construction and renovation projects...
...just one hit, the Crimson was able to capitalize on some wild pitches to work Alexander around the diamond to get on the board in the first inning...
...eating frozen fish in an artificial saltwater tank at high altitude, breathing the most polluted air on the planet in Mexico City. So they gave him away. They were not ocean people, and they asked us if we wanted to help them. I ended up on the board of the Free Willy-Keiko foundation. And we ended up doing everything...
...additional 16 percent reduction over the next two fiscal years,” Harvard College Library spokeswoman Beth Brainard said. Much like Kirkland library, the Quad library has given work-study students priority, according to Chika A. Okoro ’11. Okoro is on the advisory board of the Student Organization Center at Hilles, where the Quad library is located. She said that the hiring restrictions made the employment process more difficult, as the library is “barely staffed as it is.” —Staff writer Bita M. Assad can be reached...