In remarks made on March 23, Western Michigan University-AAUP President Lisa Minnick criticized the national trend toward state disinvestment from higher education. Mentioning the deliberate "dismantling" of the University of Wisconsin System and the lack of any state funding for universities in Illinois since July 2015, she warns of an impending crisis in Michigan as budget cuts continue. She associates the disinvestment trend with the "horrific and tragic example" of the water crisis in Flint, Michigan as part of a larger problem of valuing private interests over the public good.
You can read her remarks here.
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