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In a retrospective piece dated May 21, 1999 about state funding to higher education, a Senate panel had rejected Gov. John Engler\'s plan for overhauling the way universities are funded, saying the grouping of similar schools for funding purposes overlooks the needs of individual schools. Engler had suggested dividing the schools into four groups, and spending between $4,5000 and $8,000 per in-state student, depending on the school\'s size and mission. Under the new proposal, increases of about 8 percent over this year\'s budget would go to Central Michigan, Grand Valley State, Oakland and Saginaw Valley State universities, as well as to the University of Michigan - Dearborn. The big three - the U-M, Michigan State University and Wayne State University - would get increases of about 4 percent. All 15 public universities would get an additional 2 percent increase for infrastructure, technology and maintenance.
