Michigan

With strike looming, university and teaching assistants compromise on pay, benefits and other issues.

For the last three years, Thomas A. Hamilton has increasingly become a minority of one on the seven-member Board of Trustees of  St. Clair County Community College, regularly challenging policies adopted by the two-year institution's president and questioning whether the board is fulfilling its obligations to oversee and assess her performance.

Wayne State professors attack plan to break up college focused on disadvantaged and minority students.

Preliminary admissions data suggest climbing black and Hispanic enrollments after changes wrought by Supreme Court ruling.

Michigan ruling says state ban on gay marriage doesn't restrict health insurance.

U.S. Supreme Court upheld it in 2003, but state appeals court approves initiative for next year's ballots.

Many at Michigan's smallest public university see recent tenure denials -- over departmental objections -- as sign of disrespect for liberal arts. 

As more states consider the test as part of high school assessment programs, policy experts see results but urge caution.

Will Michigan become the next state to ban affirmative action at public universities?

With referendum approaching, critics release admissions data showing gaps by race at U. of Michigan, which says numbers are distorted.