Students rally at Capitol for higher ed
Source: lsureveille.com Posted By: tesee11 5122 days ago
About 40 students from Michigan’s public universities gathered Friday at the Capitol to push state legislators to make higher education funding a top priority in the next two years.
ASMSU Academic Assembly President Justin Epstein said college students today are finding themselves in the wake of an education funding crisis and can no longer allow higher education to take a backseat on the state’s budget.
In 1980, about 50 percent of MSU’s budget was funded from state appropriations, Epstein....