In May 1969, the Dearborn Campus Planning Study Committee released their report on the future of the institution, which recommended the addition of lower-division undergraduate courses and the expansion of non-cooperative programs.[14] In November 1969, the regents formally approved the committee's recommendations.[15] In February 1970, the Committee on Colleges and Universities of the Michigan House of Representatives discussed a bill that would have separated the Dearborn campus from the University of Michigan as an independent "Fairlane University", an ultimately unsuccessful proposal that was protested by both faculty and students in Dearborn.[16]