Grand Valley State University President Mark A. Murray and The University of Michigan President Mary Sue Coleman discussed the state of higher education and its role in the future of the state of Michigan in a one-hour program taped May 6 in Grand Rapids.
WGVU-TV (PBS) is producing the program, Michigan's Future: HIgher Education and the New Economy, which was taped before an invited studio audience at the Meijer Public Broadcast Center on Grand Valley's Pew Grand Rapids Campus.
A panel of journalists talked to Coleman and Murray about issues regarding higher education including state funding, tuition, job creation, research, technology transfer and "cool cities."
The program is scheduled to air on the following stations:
- WGVU/WGVK (West Michigan), May 7 at 9 p.m.
- WFUM (Flint), May 7 at 10 p.m.
- WTVS (Detroit), May 9 at 4:30 p.m.
