Should the State of Michigan Provide Financial Assistance to the Independent Colleges and Universities of Michigan?
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Authors
Kountoupes, Cary
Issue Date
1990
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Thesis
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en_US
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Abstract
The first section of the following report consists of a
research paper which examines the role which independent
colleges and universities play in Michigan's higher education
system. The second section contains a copy of the summary
report for the internship project which was submitted to the
employer at the end of the term. The third section describes
the relationship of the internship to academic experiences,
both past and anticipated.
More specifically, the research paper examines the issue
of whether or not the state government should provide
financial assistance to independent colleges and
universities. The analyses indicate that there are not only
social, but also substantial economic advantages to state
supported, private institutions of higher education. Among
what are referred to as the social advantages are: a wider
variety of higher educational opportunities, competition for
state universities which results in improvements on both
sides, greater overall student capacity, and unique private
school missions. The economic benefits occur in the form of
a lightened tax burden resulting from the decrease in demand
for public higher education which the private institutions
cause. The information contained in the paper leads to the
conclusion that state appropriations to programs for private
institutions are indeed justified and it provides a useful
economic method for determining the levels of state aid which
result in a net savings to taxpayers.
The subject of the internship project was to lay the
groundwork for future investigation into methods for
collecting state expenditure data on both a county and a
state legislative district basis. The conclusions of the
work done on the project are that a standardized system,
usable by every department, of data collection in these two
formats is probably a long way off. The investigation did
reveal, however, that there are several departments which
have fairly accurate systems for collecting their own county-by-
county expenditure data.
The third section explains that while no specific
college classes were of singular value, the writing skills
which were acquired at K proved to be very useful.
Additionally, previous job experiences contributed
substantially to this work experience. It is also noted in
this section that all of the work experiences will certainly
be of assistance in the event that graduate studies in
business are later pursued.
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iii, 71 p.
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