Wayne State University

In Michigan, we vote for the people who oversee three of our public universities. Each university also uses a different word for the same role. Regents for the University of Michigan (U of M), Trustees for Michigan State University (MSU), and Governors for Wayne State University (WSU). Michigan Public's Dustin Dwyer explores why that is.

Michigan’s public universities are raising tuition prices this fall as they grapple with rising costs and years of flat or uncertain state funding.

Michigan voters choose the members of the boards at the state's three largest public universities. That would change under a proposal in the Michigan Senate.

The proposal is an effort to address board-level dysfunction at the University of Michigan, Michigan State University and Wayne State University.

Grand Rapids reckons with another lethal police shooting. Also, perspectives on the relationship between race and space in southwest Detroit.

WSU’s word warriors have been releasing an annual list of overlooked words for 17 years.

Conversations with Dearborn Mayor Abdullah Hammoud and Wayne State University football coach Tyrone Wheatley. Plus, the Grand Traverse Butterfly House and Bug Zoo, and the details of a powwow happening in Detroit on Indigenous People's Day.

We opened Stateside with a debrief on the horrific shooting and arson at a Mormon church in Grand Blanc, Michigan. Then, some information on the new state budget deal. Also, more on a new book recounting the life of a black disabled woman killed by police violence and the activism her death inspired. Plus, a bit about the factors behind the resignation of Wayne State's President Kimberly Andrews Espy and a dangerous story about Sleeping Bear Dunes' famous Overlook #9.

The dean of the Wayne State University School of Medicine, Dr. Wael Sakr, will return to campus after being placed on paid administrative leave for more than a month.

This year Michigan began testing rivers and streams across the state for microplastics. The Department of Environment, Great Lakes and Energy has $2 million for the four-year project.