University of Michigan president says state treats school like 'failing institution' - Dave Murray, Michigan Live

University of Michigan is a top-ranked public school, but people looking at recommended performance goals to earn state funding would think the university is a “failing institution,” President Mary Sue Coleman told a state House committee. But members of the House Appropriations Subcommittee on Higher Education had tough words for Coleman, saying the university is “thumbing its nose” at the Legislature by not providing requested information, including about human embryonic stem cell use in research.