Michigan's universities will not only be creating the next generation
of minds to move into the state's workforce but they might be on their way to
creating the work itself. Universities across the state,
through various expansions, developments, and research projects, will
be creating a large number of jobs in the coming years.
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Michigan State's FRIB and U-M's purchase are high-profile examples
of how universities throughout Michigan are taking a prominent role in
trying to rescue the state's troubled economy.
The universities were once largely uninterested in dirtying their
hands by working with local governments and businesses to create jobs.
"That's changed--a lot," Boulus said. "Maybe we didn't have to play
this role 15 or 20 years ago, when the auto industry provided so many
jobs."
Today, every public university in the state can point to some
initiative with business or government that has job creation as its
focus.
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