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Macomb needs university to compete with other counties

With 10 percent of the state's population, Macomb County needs and deserves a permanent state university, the newspaper contends in this editorial. "We cannot afford to settle for course offerings provided at an extension site by state universities located in other communities," the piece continues. The number of state dollars budgeted to universities in some other counties is cited, including $214.6 million to Wayne State in Wayne County . The newspaper points out that, apart from the public investment they bring, universities also stimulate business activity in the county in which they are located.

GVSU gets federal money for program

Wayne State University will receive $566,772 as part of a U.S. Department of Education program aimed at helping people from disadvantaged backgrounds have success in college. Wayne State is receiving the highest allocation of the $2 million grant which is divided among six colleges and universities in Michigan. The program provides academic, career and financial counseling to those identified as having the potential to succeed in higher education. The goal is to get more students from disadvantaged backgrounds to complete high school and enroll in college, and includes tutoring and workshops.

Wayne State board approves tuition increases

This Associated Press story discusses Wayne State's budget and the 5.8 tuition increase. The approved general fund budget of $489.2 million also includes a $2.1 million increase in financial aid. "We are grateful this year to receive our first increase in state appropriations since 2001 - an action on the part of Gov. Granholm and the state Legislature which will hopefully continue, " Wayne State University Provost Nancy Barrett said in a news release. "Although we appreciate the increase in our appropriation after four consecutive years of decline, the proposed increase of 2.5 percent is the lowest allocated to any of Michigan's public universities."

WSU students to pay more: Tuition will go up 5.8 percent in the fall

In a story about the adoption of Wayne State's 2006-07 budget, comments are included from students and university administrators. Board of Governors member Paul Massaron proposed a 3.8 percent increase in tuition, saying that, added to last year's 18.5 percent increase, tuition has gone up almost 25 percent over the last two years. "Basically, it goes to the question of whether or not we could in fact operate close to the rate of inflation with regard to tuition increase," he said. Wayne State Provost Nancy Barrett said the increase is reasonable. "It is a bare-bones budget, basically giving our employees a modest cost of living increase," Barrett said. A sidebar graph is included showing tuition increase percentages for Michigan's 15 public universities, including Wayne State.

Maryann Mahaffey, longtime councilwoman, dead at 81

Longtime Detroit city councilwoman Maryann Mahaffey died early today at Henry Ford Hospital, the Associated Press reports. Mrs. Mahaffey, 81, served on the Detroit City Council for 31 years and retired last year after being diagnosed with leukemia. She was a professor emeritus at the WSU School of Social Work, where she taught from 1965 to 1990. Mrs. Mahaffey was known for her civic activism and for her advocacy on behalf of Detroit's neighborhoods and the poor. WXYZ-TV and WWJ-AM also identified Mrs. Mahaffey as a professor emeritus at WSU.

Oakwood, WSU Physician Group to create center in Troy

Oakwood Healthcare Inc. and the Wayne State University Physician Group on Wednesday said they will create an ambulatory care center in Troy as the first project of a new joint venture called OHS/UPG Ventures. Wayne State School of Medicine Dean Robert Mentzer said, in the Crain's Detroit Business story, that the venture was about expanding into a community that the physicians group had previously not engaged. "It's our vision to work together to combine our initiatives in Southeast Michigan to broaden the base of the school to serve as a resource to everyone," Mentzer said. Troy was "a part of the puzzle," he said, adding that it would "fundamentally extend the reach of the school" while allowing it to remain "intensely committed" to serving downtown Detroit.

Michigan schools post gains in budget: But state lawmakers agree to flat funding for most local governments.

The state House and Senate signed off on a budget agreement Wednesday that will benefit universities, community colleges and K-12 schools for the first time in a few years. Among universities, the biggest winner is Grand Valley State University, scheduled for a 6 percent increase in state aid. Wayne State University and Michigan Technological University will get the lowest proportional increases at 2.5 percent. The average community college increase is about 3 percent. Universities have responded with tuition increases well under 10 percent for the academic year beginning this fall.

Cadillac unveils ad switch

Jeff Stoltman, Wayne State marketing professor, commented in a story about Cadillac\'s new ad campaign called \"Life. Liberty. And the Pursuit.\" Scheduled for launch on Friday, the campaign will consist of 15 television spots and various print ads. This is Cadillac\'s first ad campaign since it switched its advertising duties to a Boston-based firm following several years of using Leo Burnett-Detroit. Stoltman said that it\'s not unusual for an advertiser to switch from a successful campaign after a few years. \"There\'s a prevailing thought that campaigns go through a wear-out phase,\" he said. \"After a while, people just tune it out.\"

Endangered species: middle-income neighborhoods

Wayne State University researchers Jason C. Booza, Jackie Cutsinger and George Galster are the authors of a recently released study for the Brookings Institution suggesting that there has been a sharply increasing neighborhood economic polarization during the last three decades. Titled \"Where Did They Go? The Decline of Middle-Income Neighborhoods in Metropolitan America,\" the Brookings study analyzed census family and neighborhood income data from 1970 to 2000 for the country\'s 100 largest metropolitan areas and the cities and suburbs of a dozen selected regions, including the Baltimore area. \"Although middle-income families have declined considerably as a share of the overall family income distribution, it is noteworthy that middle-class neighborhoods have disappeared even faster in metropolitan areas, especially in cities,\" the study reports.

Middlebury College hosts discussion: "Terror and the Mass Media"

An article in this Vermont Web weekly mentions that Wayne State professor Mahmoud Abdalla (Near Eastern and Asian Studies Department) will speak Sunday at a "Symposium on Terror and the Mass Media" to be held at Middlebury College. A native of Egypt , Abdalla will open the event with a discussion about the role of Arab media in shaping public opinion. He says he'd like to see more Western journalists enrolled in his Arabic language course in the interest of accurate and knowledgeable coverage of conflict in the Middle East . A photo of Abdalla accompanies the article.

FEDERAL COURTS: Arab group sues U.S. over slow evacuations

Robert Sedler, Wayne State University law professor, predicted a lawsuit filed against the Bush administration in Detroit federal court will die quickly. The national American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee, a nonprofit Arab-American civil-rights group, alleges in their suit filed Monday that the continued delays in evacuating Americans from Lebanon violates their due process rights. The suit also asks Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice to seek a cease-fire between Israel and Hizballah until the evacuation is finished, and asks Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld to stop supplying Israel with weapons until the U.S. completes its evacuation. Sedler said the suit is unlikely to occupy the time of Rice or Rumsfeld unless it survives the government\'s inevitable request to have it dismissed.

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