The request asks the Legislature to create a "balanced approach to encouraging lower tuition and fee rates at state universities....Students and families today bear an increasingly heavy burden with the cost of public higher education," Interim President John Engler said in a press release. "One shifted to them by the state at a time when post-high school training or education is more important than ever."
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