Michigan community colleges lobby to offer 4-year degrees

The Detroit News reports:

Michigan community colleges are challenging four-year universities for the right to offer bachelor's degrees, and if they succeed, would join more than a dozen states across the country that already allow such degrees.

The move is being opposed by Michigan's 15 public universities, which says it's a clear case of the colleges overstepping their missions. The bill, expected to get a hearing this fall, would let community colleges offer some four-year degrees.

The 15 public universities don't want competition. Competition would lower the price of tuition. Lowering the price of tuition might mean that some universities couldn't afford to have so many tenured Marxists around.