President Haas's Editorial

In case you missed it last Friday, August 24, GVSU President Thomas Haas had an editorial published in The Detroit News entitled, "Stop blame game, forge solutions for college."

Here are some interesting quotes from the editorial:

"96.5 percent of our students are Michigan residents and almost 40 percent come from Metro Detroit.

Our graduates take up careers in professions for which there is significant demand. Ninety-seven percent of our most recent graduates are employed or in graduate school.

Of those employed, 88 percent are working in Michigan.

Grand Valley remains affordable, and our students are among the state's best qualified. Our tuition rate places us 13th among Michigan's 15 public campuses; our rate of change is lower than the national, Midwest and Michigan averages.

For 11 years in a row, Grand Valley has been named one of the country's 100 best college buys. In every year that we have increased tuition, we have increased financial aid by at least the same amount -- despite the fact that we rank last in state funding per student."

- Detroit News, August 24, 2007 (see link above for full editorial).