Of course Michigan’s university administrators don’t want lawmakers to allow community colleges to offer bachelor’s degree programs for nurses.
Those large institutions have enjoyed a state-sanctioned monopoly on most four-year degree programs for decades, and they’ve spent substantial lobbying effort to keep that corner on the market. And any move to elbow into universities’ fiefdoms, particularly by low-cost-per-credit-hour community colleges, threatens a sacred cash cow they have come to depend upon.
