Michigan: Government and Higher Education

Michigan's constitution, adopted in 1963, provides for a governor serving a term of four years, who may be reelected. The state legislature is made up of a senate with 38 members and a house of representatives with 110 members. Michigan sends 14 representatives and 2 senators to the U.S. Congress and has 16 electoral votes in presidential elections. Since 1990, Republicans and Democrats have split control of the governor's office.

Institutions of higher education include the Univ. of Michigan, at Ann Arbor, Dearborn, and Flint; Michigan State Univ., at East Lansing; the Univ. of Detroit Mercy and Wayne State Univ., at Detroit; Western Michigan Univ. and Kalamazoo College, at Kalamazoo; Eastern Michigan Univ., at Ypsilanti; Northern Michigan Univ., at Marquette; Central Michigan Univ., at Mt. Pleasant; and many other private and state colleges.

Sections in this article:

• Introduction
• Racial Tensions and Recession
• Assembly Lines and Labor Strife
• Reform Movements
• Settlement and Statehood
• Resistance to British Occupation
• Native Americans and French Explorers
• Government and Higher Education
• Economy
• Geography
• Facts and Figures

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