http://www.statenews.com MSU students could see as much as a 10.1 percent tuition increase during the next two years, the MSU Board of Trustees decided Friday when it approved the 2009-10 university budget guidelines. en-us Gryphon 2.2.3b-tsn (woodward)/Foundry5 Fri, 26 Jun 2009 00:27:39 -0400 webmaster@statenews.com http://www.statenews.com/index.php/comment/view/41098 This is absolutley BS. A 5.2 PERCENT INCREASE IN TUITION!!! Im barely getting enough financial aid to pay for shcool and they are all thru loans!!!!!!! Im tired of Michigan and States increases..I know theri needed but my finaincial aid better be in scholarships!!! Mon, 22 Jun 2009 08:38:51 -0400 http://www.statenews.com/index.php/comment/view/41098 http://www.statenews.com/index.php/comment/view/41103 Write to the Legislature, here’s the reform we need: All state funding to Umich should be transferred to msu to create a realistic flagship university alternative in the face of untenable tuition levels. Umich should retain full funding for a very limited number of top academic performers (specifically michigan residents pledged to remain in michigan to financially prevent brain drain to other states), as should their Board of Regents remain state elected officials, this is constitutionally permissible. At the same time, Umich will become a de facto private university because parents of rich white Detroit suburbs children, which are your typical Umich d-bag students, will be permitted to steer the University into a conservative political philosophy and truly represent the families of the student body. Mon, 22 Jun 2009 09:38:44 -0400 http://www.statenews.com/index.php/comment/view/41103 http://www.statenews.com/index.php/comment/view/41137 The poorest students still get funding. The richest don’t care. The middle is getting squeezed right out of an education— they simply can’t afford it any more. A public university education in Michigan costs SIGNIFICANTLY more than the national average already. And now we’re going to boost tuition and fees while slashing aid again? Now more than ever, ALL of our Michigan kids need a break. College for everyone, Obama says. Really? At this rate, the middle is going to be pushed out entirely unless they can land an academic scholarship —and those kids, truthfully, land largely at other schools….where is it they wear the maize and blue? This tuition/financial aid gap makes my stomach turn. We’re leaving a generation stranded and without hope! Tue, 23 Jun 2009 10:46:12 -0400 http://www.statenews.com/index.php/comment/view/41137 http://www.statenews.com/index.php/comment/view/41147 WELL SAID! Tue, 23 Jun 2009 11:38:04 -0400 http://www.statenews.com/index.php/comment/view/41147 http://www.statenews.com/index.php/comment/view/41381 I have an idea. How about we transfer the money that is used to repave I-696 every single year into a fund for MSU students. This would allow students from Michigan to attend our fine university and will have the added benefit of not gumming up Oakland County’s busiest highway every Summer. Fri, 26 Jun 2009 00:27:39 -0400 http://www.statenews.com/index.php/comment/view/41381