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U-M continues to build, no matter what

Wednesday, March 10, 2010

Ann Arbor

Continual growth for the foreseeable future is the name of the game at the University of Michigan, which makes it a point to keep building up its campus and curriculum even if its local peers are not.

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The University of Michigan and Michigan State University are separated by 60 miles and a few billion dollars. Both are public universities. Both have fiercely loyal alumni and are a few thousand apart in numbers of students. Yet MSU is enacting painful program cuts and layoffs, while U-M is adding staff and is in the midst of one of the biggest building booms in school history. The budget gap between the two schools has ballooned to almost a half-billion dollars per year and is growing.

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