Michigan State University and Mel Tucker are set to face a $75 million lawsuit from Brenda Tracy, a rape survivor and advocate who the university found to have been sexually harassed by the disgraced former coach while consulting for his team.
The MSU board’s “unprecedented rush to judgment … represent(s) a clear abuse of institutional power designed to silence those who speak uncomfortable truths,” trustee Rema Vassar said in a statement today.
On his first day as MSU's 22nd president, Kevin Guskiewicz outlined his goals for MSU and addressed the findings of the Miller & Chevalier report regarding the board of trustees in a campus-wide email sent out Monday morning.
With new MSU President Kevin Guskiewicz starting today, student leaders are looking forward to what they hope will be a fruitful future. To accomplish this, they say, Guskiewicz must listen to student demands.
Michigan State University’s Board of Trustees voted to refer board chair Rema Vassar and trustee Dennis Denno to the governor to consider their removal at a special meeting late Sunday evening, hours after Vassar announced her resignation from her position as board chair.
Prominent Palestinian student activist Saba Saed says the criticism facing the board members has nothing to do with their support for Palestinian students.
Michigan State University trustee Rema Vassar has resigned from her position as board chair, according to The Detroit News. Her resignation comes two hours before a special board meeting will be held to discuss the results of a 63-page investigation into board chair impropriety that was released Wednesday.
The student groups’ petition, which has received over 100 signatures since being created this afternoon, says the embattled board members have given “unwavering support for the Black community” and should not be removed following an outside firm’s findings that they breached board bylaws and the code of ethics.
Trustee Dennis Denno rebuked an outside firm’s findings that he and chair Rema Vassar violated board bylaws and the code of ethics in a statement released this afternoon. Denno said he will “accept a censure but contest any other form of punishment.”
The Michigan State University Board of Trustees will hold a special meeting tomorrow to discuss a recently released report of an investigation into widespread allegations of misconduct by board chair Rema Vassar.
A Michigan State University professor in the Broad Business College has been charged with six counts of “child pornography-related allegations,” according to the Ingham County Prosecutor’s Office.
Michigan State University has begun the release of thousands of long-withheld documents relating to the university’s handling of years of sexual abuse by disgraced ex-MSU doctor Larry Nassar. The university hopes to have all documents transferred by the end of March.
An investigation into impropriety within the Michigan State University Board of Trustees found that board chair Rema Vassar and trustee Dennis Denno "engaged in conduct that exceeds the scope of their authority," including interfering in university investigations and lawsuits, encouraging personal attacks against Faculty Senate chair Jack Lipton and "encouraged student actions intended to embarrass and unsettle Interim President (Teresa) Woodruff."
Dublin Square has settled the copyright infringement lawsuit filed against them in October 2023. The terms of the settlement remain confidential.
The major Jewish holiday Passover will overlap with final exams this year, raising concerns among members of MSU’s Jewish community.
An international research team working at MSU's Facility for Rare Isotope Beams reported the creation of five new isotopes. The isotopes, which have likely never existed on the surface of the Earth until last week, are a sign of the FRIB's potential to assist scientists in recreating the conditions found when neutron stars collide in space.
Michigan State University has spent nearly $100,000 for legal representation of board chair Rema Vassar and one other individual in an outside investigation into allegations that Vassar violated Board of Trustees bylaws and university policies.
MSU’s Office for Civil Rights and Title IX Education and Compliance introduced a new policy outlining protections for students and employees who are pregnant, experiencing childbirth or pregnancy-related conditions, or are parents. Qualifying students who request accommodations can be granted periodic absences from class, extensions on assignments and can take breaks from class to express milk.
Due to an outdated policy, tips submitted through social media weren’t reviewed in real-time during the shooting, according to an outside review that was never released publicly. That’s now been changed.
The MSU College of Law Student Bar Association passed a resolution giving its unwavering support to the MSU Black Law Students Association after a Jan. 11 racial incident at the College of Law.