U-M continues to build, no matter what

Wednesday, March 10, 2010 | Source: The Detroit News

Continual growth for the foreseeable future is the name of the game at the University of Michigan, which makes it a point to keep building up its campus and curriculum even if its local peers are not.

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The University of Michigan and Michigan State University are separated by 60 miles and a few billion dollars. Both are public universities. Both have fiercely loyal alumni and are a few thousand apart in numbers of students. Yet MSU is enacting painful program cuts and layoffs, while U-M is adding staff and is in the midst of one of the biggest building booms in school history. The budget gap between the two schools has ballooned to almost a half-billion dollars per year and is growing.

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