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Appropriations Summary |
Actual[75] |
Recommended |
Savings |
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|
|
|
|
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Interdepartmental Grants: |
0 |
0 |
0 |
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Federal Funds: |
$5,149,700 |
$5,149,700 |
0 |
|
State General Fund/General Purpose: |
$1,423,887,400 |
$1,216,843,473 |
$207,043,927 |
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Special Revenue Funds: |
0 |
0 |
0 |
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|
|
|
|
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Gross Appropriation: |
$1,429,037,100 |
$1,221,993,173 |
$207,043,927 |
The Higher Education budget directly funds the operations
of Michigan's 13 public four year universities. In addition, the budget also
contains appropriations for the following programs: the Martin Luther King, Jr.
- Cesar Chavez - Rosa Parks College Day Program; the Martin Luther King, Jr. -
Cesar Chavez - Rosa Parks Future Faculty Fellowship Program; the Grant and
Financial Aid Program; and various state and regional programs--all of which
should be slated for either elimination or reduction.
As is the case with Michigan's community colleges, the rate
of increase in higher education expenditures has far exceeded the rate of
increase in enrollment and inflation. To remedy this problem, expenditures
should be retroactively indexed to enrollment and inflation. This would produce
an immediate, and long overdue, savings to the Michigan taxpayer, and encourage
changes that would increase the efficiency of these institutions.
