Posted on Wed, Mar 13, 2013 : 1:03 p.m.
U-M President Mary Sue Coleman urges lawmakers to end sequestration cuts
By Cindy Heflin
University of Michigan President Mary Sue Coleman Wednesday urged lawmakers in Washington to reach an agreement to end federal cuts known as sequestration, The Detroit News reported.
U-M President Mary Sue Coleman speaks to faculty and others in this October 2012 file photo.
AnnArbor.com file photo
Coleman was in Washington to speak at an alumni breakfast and while there held meetings with lawmakers, according to the report.
U-M head of research Stephen Forrest last month warned regents about the impact of the cuts on research.
"It is a meat cleaver-approach to solving budget problems,” he said. "We don't know what the future's going to look like. It's certainly not going to be very robust."
Comments
Mike
Thu, Mar 14, 2013 : 11:59 a.m.
Whatever Mary Sue wants , do the opposite and you should be moving in the right direction..........
Mike
Thu, Mar 14, 2013 : 11:49 a.m.
With all of the doom and gloom and hand wringing going on over reducing the rate of spending, NOT ACTUALLY REDUCING SPENDING, going on right now can you imagine the outcry when we actually are forced to make real cuts?
An Arborigine
Thu, Mar 14, 2013 : 3:38 a.m.
News Flash: Stop cutting our tax-free allocations!
Basic Bob
Thu, Mar 14, 2013 : 1:39 a.m.
I urge MSC to retire at normal retirement age.
Stephen Landes
Thu, Mar 14, 2013 : 12:44 a.m.
When you are part of the entitled class, like Mary Sue Coleman, even a reduction in the rate of growth of funding is intolerable. She and her fellow university presidents had better get used to the idea that the increasing flow of money is going to slow down just a little bit.
Angry Moderate
Wed, Mar 13, 2013 : 11:04 p.m.
The UMich endowment could make up for these fake "cuts" without putting a tiny dent in its balance sheet.
Jay Thomas
Wed, Mar 13, 2013 : 9:40 p.m.
It has NOT been approached with a "meat cleaver"... only a pin prick. So many crocodile tears...
David Bardallis
Wed, Mar 13, 2013 : 9:38 p.m.
What cuts? How is a slight decrease in the rate of growth in any sense a cut? Google "Washington monument syndrome."
Goober
Wed, Mar 13, 2013 : 9:37 p.m.
When Mary Sue says 'jump', we say 'how high'.
Tom
Wed, Mar 13, 2013 : 6:29 p.m.
Sorry Mary Sue, Washington seems incapable of reducing this spending madness in the right places and this was and is the only option to get spending under control, be it as ugly as it is. I hope the populace gets better informed in future elections to elect the right people who can work to solve our serious problems and stop the political insanity. I can dream, can't I?
Top Cat
Wed, Mar 13, 2013 : 5:45 p.m.
If they don't end the sequestration, Ms Coleman might have to make her own cuts. Perhaps ending the bus service, furloughing campus security and terminating heat to the dorms.
BernieP
Wed, Mar 13, 2013 : 10:31 p.m.
Good thing spring is on its way and that the AATA will take students too. Maybe she can have Curtis Sliwa organize a volunteer security force.
Arborcomment
Wed, Mar 13, 2013 : 6:17 p.m.
Pay cuts and furloughs. Start at the top