Only classes based on the East Lansing campus will be remote. Events and activities happening across campus are being handled on a case-by-case basis.

While power has been restored to most of campus, impacts related to steam and hot water use will take additional time to be restored, said President Kevin Guskiewicz in a campuswide email.

Employees with questions about their job responsibilities should contact their supervisor, the email read. Additional information for faculty, staff and students will be shared through university communication channels and posted on the university website.

Faculty are asked to provide support and flexibility to students whenever possible due to the unforeseen disruption, said MSU provost Laura Lee McIntrye in an email.

Guskiewicz said he understands the inconveniences this will cause for those living in MSU residence halls, and in response, MSU will be adapting its dining operations throughout Monday.

MSU is committed to continuing to provide regular updates as more information becomes available and as restoration efforts progress, the email read. Students living in university housing will continue to receive information directly from Residential and Hospitality Services (RHS) regarding available services and resources.

In the email, Guskiewicz thanked Infrastructure, Planning and Facilities (IPF), MSU Department of Police and Public Safety (DPPS), Emergency Management, the Office of Environmental Health and Safety and the many staff who worked to resolve the outage.

Guskiewicz also recognized that the outage had the potential to affect research underway on campus and encouraged researchers to check temperature-sensitive samples, equipment and instruments, long-running experiments, and data or computing systems. If students identify any impact or need support they are asked to contact their department or the Office of Research and Innovation.

“We appreciate your flexibility, patience and understanding as we work through these challenges together," Guskiewicz said. "Our goal is to restore normal operations as quickly and safely as possible."