Michigan Senate leadership put its plan on the table Thursday to change how the governing boards of the state’s three largest universities are picked.
Senate Majority Floor Leader Sam Singh (D-East Lansing) said the three university boards have all faced too many troubles to let the current way of picking board members stand.
“I think if you talk to the general public, they’re just as disgusted by what they’re seeing. And so, this idea that we would continue to politicize these three boards when they’re such important institutions to our state and to our economic development is beyond me,” Singh said…