Posted by News Staff September 27, 2007

More than 100 Eastern Michigan University students headed to Lansing Wednesday to lobby for more higher education funding.

Students from 13 of Michigan's 15 state universities attended a rally on the Capitol steps, calling for only the second increase in state funding for higher education in the last eight years, EMU officials said.

The event was sponsored by the Student Association of Michigan and the United States Student Association.

Students also met with lawmakers to ask for a restoration of funds taken from the state universities in May and for the Legislature to make good on Gov. Granholm's call for a 2.5 percent funding increase for higher education, officials said.

"Moving Michigan's economy forward will require new investments in essential areas like higher education," EMU Chief Government Relations Officer Freman Hendrix said in a statement.