The following is a verbatim report from this legislative news service: "In an annual address on the state of public universities, the head of the group representing Michigan's 15 public campuses urged policymakers to respect the constitutional autonomy of the institutions and to reverse the trend of cutting funds to universities. Those cuts, he said, are already putting the state in jeopardy of having six of the campuses evolve from being state-supported, to being state-related. . . ." Gary Russi, president of Oakland University and chair of the Presidents Council State Universities of Michigan, said, "Price controls in the form of tuition caps imposed from Lansing, coupled with the serious erosion of state funding over the last three years, do not make for a sustainable model for growing enrollment and improving quality."