LANSING, MI - Some of Michigan’s 15 public universities fare better than others under the state aid funding formula now in place and proposed to continue in Gov. Rick Snyder’s plan for the fiscal year that starts Oct. 1.

The proposal is now being vetted at the subcommittee level in the Michigan Legislature, including a House hearing on Tuesday.

Universities, on average, could get a 2 percent state aid increase under Snyder's proposal introduced last month. About 1.5 percent of the proposed increase would be distributed to universities based on a formula similar to one in place for the current budget year. It varies by the number of undergraduate degrees awarded in critical skills areas, research and development spending, comparisons to peer universities, graduation rates and other factors. Another 0.5 percent would be distributed to universities keeping their in-state undergraduate tuition increases below 4 percent for the next academic year.

Not counting the tuition restraint piece, the increases would vary from a high of 5.1 percent at Lake Superior State University to a low of 0.2 percent at Wayne State University.

The full list as proposed by the Snyder administration:

• Central Michigan University, up 2.3 percent.

• Eastern Michigan University, up 0.9 percent.

• Ferris State University, up 4.7 percent.

• Grand Valley State University, up 3.2 percent.

• Lake Superior State University, up 5.1 percent.

• Michigan State University, up 1.0 percent.

• Michigan Technological University, up 2.8 percent.

• Northern Michigan University, up 2.1 percent.

• Oakland University, up 1.5 percent.

• Saginaw Valley State University, up 2.1 percent.

• University of Michigan-Ann Arbor, up 1.1 percent.

• University of Michigan-Dearborn, up 1.1 percent.

• University of Michigan-Flint, up 4.9 percent.

• Wayne State University, up 0.2 percent.

• Western Michigan University, up 1.6 percent.

The percentage increase for each of the universities would bump up beyond that if they keep tuition in check.

Typically, each university president has an opportunity to testify before legislative subcommittee hearings during each budget cycle. University of Michigan President Mary Sue Coleman, for example, testified last week.

On Tuesday, Ferris State President David Eisler said he was “grateful” for the increases in the current budget and anticipated in the next budget. But he noted it comes after a long period of decline in state aid support for higher education in Michigan.

While universities are in line for a second year of state aid increases in the next budget, those increases do not make up for deep cuts in previous years. In Snyder’s first budget, for example, universities absorbed a 15 percent cut in state aid. University funding also had been cut during Gov. Jennifer Granholm’s tenure.

Grand Valley State University’s enrollment has grown rapidly, but it now gets less state aid when calculated on a per-student basis than any other Michigan public university, President Tom Haas told lawmakers Tuesday.

“Lansing policies and math can be very curious,” Haas said. “Add students, lose funding for students. Reduce enrollment, and get more money per student.”

Michigan Technological University President Glenn Mroz noted that retirement system costs at some state universities are considerably higher than at other institutions not in the same system.

“The costs are borne by students and their families,” he said.

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