If you are reading this article and you have family and friends in the state of Michigan, ask yourself if MSU is serving those Michiganders that you are closest to? Have you heard any stories about friends or family that were turned away by MSU recently? Have any of these stories surprised you? Few MSU grads from the past would dispute that the entrance criteria for MSU has gotten tougher. Many will tell you based upon today’s criteria that they would not have gotten into MSU. I include myself as one of these people. Has MSU denied access to those that should receive a landgrant education? Has MSU denied access to people that would stay home and reinvest their education by creating jobs that would grow Michigan communities? The answer that I receive when talking to people is overwhelmingly yes. This is not only inconsistent with our landgrant charter; it is economically bad for the future of MSU.
So while society is brainwashed into believing that higher standardized test scores and GPA’s result in a higher quality graduate, does it benefit the state of Michigan? Are MSU graduates today better prepared to deal with the problems of tomorrow more than they were ten or even twenty years ago? Are MSU grads any smarter or more capable than they were ten or twenty years ago? I don’t think so.

— MSU is Playing a Dangerous Game that is NOT Sustainable [via]

while this is totally valid, lansing/east lansing also has the problem of a glut of college educated people without the jobs to support them. How many MSU-educated Michiganders will turn right around and leave Michigan? Even as someone that loves Michigan and hates not living there, that’s what I did. MSU needs to cater to Michigan, but I don’t see how they can do that without Michigan figuring out some way to bring in new kinds of jobs. It seems as though, to the rest of the country, the Midwest is becoming more and more irrelevant.