Eastern Michigan University on Tuesday boosted tuition and fees 13.5 percent and committed nearly a quarter of the additional revenue to building or renovating facilities. But putting the burden of improving buildings directly on students came as a shock, said Bobby Murkowski, a senior from Saline and president of EMU\'s student council. \"We are not happy with the Board of Regents. It was a brash decision and made in a day without input from students or the community,\" said Murkowski, who added that the administration had earlier indicated the tuition boost would be less than 10 percent and never included discussions about a bond for building. Wayne State's tuition increase is noted in a sidebar item.

Eastern Michigan University announced a fall 2005 tuition increase of 13.5 percent under a new budget approved Tuesday that allows the university to issue bonds to cover improvements of campus buildings. Students would have seen their tuition bills increase by only 9.5 percent, but more money was needed to repay debt created by the bond issue. Wayne State is noted as increasing tuition earlier by 18.5 percent.

City voters on Tuesday moved closer to seating their first elected school board since the 1999 state takeover, winnowing a list of 51 candidates for 11 seats. \"This is a crucial election,\" said Sharon Elliott, associate professor of teacher education and a Detroit resident. \"As the Detroit Public Schools goes, to a great extent, the city of Detroit goes.\" \"It is a year of potential, but there is no time to be dragging feet.\" Elliott said having members elected by the district will help improve the board. \"Then there will be some immediate accountability,\" she said.

Nardina Mein and Shawn McCann are the primary grant writers of a proposal that won a $150,000 grant for Wayne State University from the Library of Michigan. The state awarded 10 grants as part of a statewide effort to digitize valuable local and state-related information held in Michigan libraries. WSU will use the grant money to further develop the Virtual Motor City photo collection, an online resource already containing more than 15,000 digitized images from The Detroit News Collection, a photojournalistic resource held at the Reuther Library at Wayne State.

Henry Ford Community College and Henry Ford Hospital have received a $680,273 state grant to begin a fast-track nursing education program for the hospital's employees. The program is designed to help fill the gap in a severe nursing shortage across the state and Metro Detroit. The program is one of 21 partnerships to receive state funding to pump up Michigan's supply of nurses. Michigan awarded $1.2 million to fund a similar partnership between Wayne State University and Harper Hospital, and about $544,000 for a partnership between Oakwood Healthcare System and the Michigan State University College of Nursing.

A group called "Detroiters for Reform" is seeking to change the way Detroit City Council members are elected. The intent is to make that body more responsive to ordinary citizens by changing the current at-large system to one where council members represent specific districts. Ron Brown, professor of political science, says Reeves and his group face a tough fight. "What they are up against are elected officials who have established political machines who can tell people what's wrong with that idea," says Brown, who teaches city politics and American government. "And that's going to be an uphill battle for this group."

These newspapers carried an AP story regarding a 13.5 percent tuition increase at Eastern Michigan University this fall. Eastern was among the last of the state's 15 public universities to set tuition for the upcoming school year.

Tuition at Eastern Michigan University this fall will be up 13.5 percent from last year's rate under a new budget that also allows the university to issue bonds to cover improvements of campus buildings. The increase to students would have been only 9.5 percent, but the university needed additional money to repay debt created by the bond issue, the article says. Other increases at state public universities have ranged from 7.5 percent at Saginaw Valley State to 19 percent at Central Michigan . Wayne State is mentioned as raising tuition by 18.5 percent.

This issue carries a "Great Lakes Football Fan Preview" that includes schedules and a brief write-up on several university teams in southeast Michigan . The entry on Wayne State notes that Paul Winters is entering his second year as head coach of the Warriors, who were 1-9 in conference play last year. The team roster includes nine returning starters on offense and eight on defense. The season opener is Sept. 3 at home against Northwood. "Tartar/Warrior Day" is set for Sept. 24 against Indianapolis .

Oakland University, the only school that has not set tuition for fall 2005, is expected to adopt a 15.2 percent increase during its trustees meeting Wednesday afternoon. Eastern Michigan University increased its amount of financial aid available to students by $1.7 million to help offset its 13.5 percent tuition increase. Wayne State's 18.5 percent tuition increase is noted in the story.

Republican Representative Tom Casperson and Republican Senator Mike Goschka have decided to move away from their earlier support of a proposal to cut Northern Michigan University's budget by 10 percent and try to restore some of the cuts if the state receives additional revenue, which is expected. Until now, the state legislature was considering serious budget cuts at NMU and Wayne State University, while giving all other state universities modest to large increases.

The Chamber of Commerce proposes that the SEC stop assessing large civil fines against companies and focus instead on punishing individuals. That may be along shot, as the agency will feel pressure to continue imposing hefty penalties as a deterrent, said Peter Henning, who teaches courses in securities litigation and white-collar crime at Wayne State Law School .

If the Oakland University Board of Trustees approves a budget recommendation offered by school administrators, students will see a 15.2 percent increase in tuition this year.

Wayne State University hosts a Graduate School Open House Aug. 3, 3-7 p.m. at the Welcome Center . Representatives will review applications and the $50 application fee for students will be waived.

Wayne State 's School of Social Work has established an endowed scholarship fund to support students in its new doctoral-degree program. It is Michigan 's only PhD program focusing solely on the research to advance social work practice in urban settings.

The WSU Library System has received a 2005 Digitization for Preservation and Access grant from the Library of Michigan. The grants are part of a statewide effort to digitize significant local and state-related information held in libraries. Funds from the grant will be used to further develop the Virtual Motor City photo collection, an online resource already containing more than 15,000 digitized images from The Detroit News Collection at the university.

The Michigan University Commercialization Initiative is a consortium of state universities, including the U of M, Michigan State and Wayne State among others. MUCI has made more than 60 grant awards to researchers at all the major research universities, but their own funding is precarious.

Most physicians know remarkably little about patients with traumatic brain injuries. In medical school the average amount of lecture time devoted to traumatic brain injury is only four hours, said Jay M. Meythaler, chair of the department of physical medicine and rehabilitation at Wayne State Medical School .

In his letter of July 27, 2005 to the Detroit News, Wayne State University President Irvin D. Reid is correct that Wayne State has been hit with major state appropriations cuts resulting in budget cuts. (\"Tuition hike needed to preserve WSU\'s role.\") However, not all those cuts hampered the university\'s operations. Surely, discontinuance of cell phone reimbursements for administrative staff, elimination of some senior staff positions in the overgrown administrative structure, consolidation of two colleges, and the elimination of one college\'s administrative structure while maintaining its programs, did not harm WSU\'s quality of education. Over the past decade, WSU has kept its tuition costs far lower than many of the other Michigan public universities. Nevertheless, it should be noted that, in the last five years, Wayne increased its tuition at least 50 percent. Finally, he is right that WSU must provide high quality, as well as affordable, education. So why did I join with two other members of the Board of Governors (Tina Abbott and Richard Bernstein) to oppose the WSU administration\'s 18.5 percent increase -- the biggest increase ever enacted in Wayne\'s 49 year history? The three of us, I believe, wanted a more balanced approach to affordability and quality.

In an article about Detroit's upcoming mayoral primary election John Mogk, a law professor at Wayne State University stated, "I think people are desperate to pick somebody who can do something positive to improve conditions" on the mayoral issue.