LANSING (AP) -- About 200 college students have rallied at the Michigan Capitol to show their dismay over proposed cuts to universities.
The students are the latest group to protest Republican Gov. Rick Snyder's budget and policy proposals. Snyder has proposed cuts of more than 20 percent to the state's 15 universities, but has offered to keep the cut at 15 percent for universities where tuition increases no more than 7 percent.
Students attending Thursday's rally say tuition already is too expensive.
Tuition and fees at public universities average $9,410 this academic year. That's up 80 percent over 2002-03, far more than the 15 percent rise in inflation over that period.
Even without Snyder's proposed cut, state funding for university operations has dropped 12 percent over the past eight years.
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