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Community colleges lobby to offer 4-year degrees

July 26, 2009 By The Associated Press DAVID N. GOODMAN (Associated Press Writer)

DETROIT (AP) — 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...

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