The job market for college graduates has bottomed out – falling some 40 percent in the past year – as the market undergoes a colossal shift that demands graduates be flexible and entrepreneurial in the rapidly evolving global economy, according to Michigan State University’s latest Recruiting Trends survey.
Publish Date: Nov. 16, 2009 | Multimedia: 
Michigan’s University Research Corridor has grown in all competitive categories during the past two years, rising among the nation’s top research and development clusters for producing patents, businesses and graduates with high-tech related degrees and injecting more than $14 billion into Michigan’s stagnant economy.
Publish Date: Sept. 28, 2009
The fact that Michigan’s cities are under serious financial stress is no surprise to anyone living in the state. Rising unemployment and foreclosure rates, along with lagging home sales, have contributed to shrinking municipal revenues and reduced budgets for many services.
Publish Date: Sept. 18, 2009
Consumer confidence in Michigan remains at or near record lows, but despite the bleak economy support for President Barack Obama remains surprisingly high, according to the latest State of the State Survey from Michigan State University.
Publish Date: Aug. 28, 2009 | Multimedia:
Beyond today’s economic issues, America needs to recapture its work force competitiveness in the face of technological change and competition from an increasingly educated world.
Publish Date: June 12, 2009 | Multimedia:
Michigan residents remain sour on the economy, according to Michigan State University's latest State of the State Survey, but that pessimism does not extend to President Barack Obama – whose 71 percent approval rating is one of the highest in survey history.
Publish Date: June 08, 2009 | Multimedia:
A Michigan State University technology spinoff company is the first tenant in MSU’s new Bioeconomy Institute, located in a former Pfizer Inc. laboratory in Holland, Mich.
Publish Date: June 05, 2009 | Multimedia:
Three recent graduates from Michigan State, the University of Michigan and Wayne State, who all have an entrepreneurial spirit, addressed Michigan lawmakers May 15 to underscore University Research Corridor members’ commitment to the state’s 21st century economy.
Publish Date: May 29, 2009
Michigan’s University Research Corridor partners have helped the state become a national life sciences leader, a new report shows, even as Michigan lost a quarter of its manufacturing jobs.
Publish Date: May 28, 2009 | Multimedia:
What’s the next big thing for Michigan? The state's top researchers in the growth sectors of life science and energy will come together on Earth Day April 22.
Publish Date: April 21, 2009
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