Budget Battle Puts Higher Education at Risk - Opinion

Robert LeFevre, president of Michigan’s Independent Colleges & Universities, writes:  This week’s wrangling between the Michigan Legislature and Gov. Gretchen Whitmer has resulted in drastic cuts to essential programs and services. The result? Many of our state’s most vulnerable populations are at risk — and so is our state’s economic future. One of the many appropriations that vanished provided financial aid to nearly 17,000 students attending college across the state — adults, veterans and first-generation students. These unique populations can't afford this loss of aid as they pursue post-secondary education.