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'We need to advocate': ASMSU works towards five-year DEI plan

The five-year plan is a diversity, equity and inclusion program complete with surveys, community feedback and strategic planning built to “kind of keep track of and hold ourselves accountable to the goals that we want to see at MSU,” ASMSU chief diversity, equity and inclusion officer Nadir Hamid said. 

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ASMSU passes sanctuary campus bill

“Many don't understand why this issue is so important, especially here in East Lansing,” Acosta said. “But the reason is simple because this issue affects a significant amount of people in our community. MSU specifically boasts one of the largest international student populations. Since admitting its first international students in 1873, MSU has welcomed 10s of 1000s of international students to East Lansing.”

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MSU Child Development Labs to expand after receiving $2.1 million in funding

“It is a great experience for MSU students who take their labs through the child development lab to be able to have experiences with a diverse population,” Child Development Laboratories Director Laurie Linscott said. “Our university students, when they go into the field of teaching, will have had their lab experiences being able to work with children and families of diversity.”

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Research team develops voice-activated AI accessible to people who stutter

“Unfortunately because you don't get to talk to anyone or advocate for yourself (while using AI), it makes it really hard to sort of explain what stuttering is and what stuttering is not,” Herring said. “Being able to self-disclose and explain that the amount of fluency I have won't impact my ability to do this job, and there's just not there's no chance to do that.”

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Inside Student Legal Services: a free resource for MSU students

“I would encourage any and all students that have any kind of question, whether they think we can represent or not, we can still provide advice," Jefferies said. "There's a lot of self-help options that are available. We sit down we go through all the forms. We walk through that with everybody.” 

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APASO holds Cultural Vogue to celebrate community

“This year's theme is ‘Roots Resilience Rebirth,’ and the story behind it is to highlight the idea that no matter how much time passes, or how we grow, we're still connected to our roots," Smejkal said. “So the idea that we should be unapologetically ourselves.”

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Tips to overcome on-campus driving, busing struggles

Campus is 5,200 acres, though most students and faculty use less than half that space in their daily routine. There are 60 miles of roads, 120 miles of pedestrian walkways, 20 miles of bike lanes and 26,000 parking spaces. And each day, there are approximately 70,000 people and 30,000 vehicles trying to get from point A to point B.