The room was instantly silent. The envelopes were about to be distributed, each one containing potentially life-changing content. Family and friends grew quiet, having anticipated this day for a long time.
In the hope of reducing the workload of chairperson pro-tempore Brad McDonald, ASMSU’s Academic Assembly created a parliamentarian position Tuesday to take on some of McDonald’s duties.
Starting today in Washington, D.C., MSU will lead a national celebratory conference for Title VI, the federal program that helped shift the university’s mission statement from “land-grant” to “world-grant” university during the past 50 years.
ASMSU’s Academic Assembly created a parliamentarian officer position who will assume the duties of the internal vice chairperson Tuesday. The position was created to decrease the workload of assembly chairperson pro-tempore Brad McDonald, who had taken on the duties of chairperson after Christopher Kulesza resigned from the position Feb. 17.
MSU researchers, as part of a new partnership with Michigan Children’s Trust Fund, or CTF, will examine the media’s effect on child abuse in today’s society. The CTF — a statewide child abuse prevention foundation — will work with MSU’s Children’s Central, a program that is part of the university’s Department of Advertising, Public Relations and Retailing.
Take a 60-minute lecture and cut it down to 60 seconds. Remove some details, excess verbiage and anecdotes. Only the key concepts remain.
A 55-year-old female employee at the Shaw Hall cafeteria reported an envelope containing $300 stolen from her purse, which was stored in her office desk, MSU police Sgt. Florene McGlothian-Taylor said.
ASMSU hopes to ban exotic animal acts from MSU. Its Student Assembly passed a bill at a joint meeting March 5 to mandates this goal. The bill will be presented to Academic Assembly at a meeting today.
The Council of Graduate Students will hold its first Graduate Academic Conference at 9 a.m. Friday, on the second floor of the Union.
Regions where people have “old-fashioned values” have discovered a way to have some newfound fun. People in states that tend to be politically and socially conservative subscribe to pornography Web sites more frequently than their more liberal counterparts, a Harvard study concluded.
Speaking out could have potentially unwelcome consequences for faculty participating in academic governance. A California case in the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals could define whether faculty speech during governance proceedings is protected under the First Amendment, said Steve Sanders, an attorney with the Mayer Brown law firm in Chicago, who is representing the American Association of University Professors, or AAUP, in the court case.
MSU and Michigan Tech scientists will partner and use $1.4 million in federal funding to solve complex issues surrounding the biofuel industry.
The MSU College of Nursing will receive $1.1 million in grants to address a shortage of nurses and nursing educators.
MSU President Lou Anna K. Simon presented the university’s budget to ASMSU at a joint meeting March 5 and explained how a shortage of state funds has affected it.
The Michigan Nursing Corps is awarding more than $1.1 million in grant funding to the MSU College of Nursing to address a shortage of nurses and nursing faculty, MSU announced today. The grants are meant to increase the number of nursing faculty through financial aid to students in the College of Nursing’s graduate programs, by encouraging them to graduate faster and give back through nursing education.
Members of the Residence Halls Association general assembly showed their support Wednesday for an East Lansing City Council ordinance that would clarify riot conduct, following a presentation by East Lansing police Chief Tom Wibert and Assistant City Attorney Tom Yeadon.
A new partnership between MSU, Lansing Community College and Capital Area Michigan Works!, or CAMW, hopes to supply trained workers to Michigan’s budding movie industry.
The Department of Student Life is seeking applications for 2009-10 judicial board members.
Regional agriculture enthusiasts will swarm to MSU next week as part of Agriculture and Natural Resources Week.
Even in the 21st century, there is one part of civilization that needs integrating. At the annual American Association for the Advancement of Science, or AAAS, in February, MSU integrative studies professor Jon Miller and academics from around the world spoke at a symposium about the Chicago Council for Science and Technology, or C2ST.