To enter the building, attendees were met with a line and a chalk message: “If you cross this line, you’re complicit.”
Attendees heard from accounting graduate Darryl Ervin. He shared his own struggles as a first-generation college student and father while attending MSU. He said these challenges helped him build character, gave him purpose and shaped him into the person he is today.
MSU's board verbally heard the results of an investigation into the resignation of former business school dean Sanjay Gupta. His supporters demand the report be made public and said his removal would discourage donors to the university.
At the Dec. 16 Board of Trustees meeting, Woodruff reported she has visited the Title IX Office and revisited the Center for Survivors within the last month, one of her commitments to engaging with faculty and students.
Budget and Finance Committee Chair Melanie Foster delivered a report on the financial possibility of reinstating the swim and dive team. The findings leave the future of swim and dive at MSU largely in question.
Once invitations were sent out and the RSVPs came back, the event had to be moved to a larger venue to accommodate capacity limits — the Breslin Center at noon on Dec. 19. With Simon’s controversial history came pushback from student groups and survivors who became aware of this ceremony.
The board is in conversation with Isaacson Miller, an executive search firm that has been used to find deans and administrators at MSU in the past and is currently searching for a candidate to helm MSU's Office of Civil Rights and Institutional Equity.
Budget and finance committee chair Melanie Foster cited two reasons why reinstatement would be difficult: the long-term need for a facility and the cost sharing arrangement between MSU athletics and external fundraising.
“Especially with Hannakuh coming up … lighting, each night, another candle, bringing more light and kindness into this world," Shemtov said. "That’s the best answer we can give, and ... hopefully that will have an effect and share that warmth with our surroundings and hopefully, that will make the world that much brighter.”
Michigan State University will host its fall 2022 commencement this weekend. Undergraduate ceremonies will take place Saturday, Dec. 17, at the Breslin Center, 534 Birch Road. All commencement ceremonies will be live-streamed at www.commencement.msu.edu.
Interim president Teresa Woodruff will lead her first board meeting on Friday, Dec. 16 at 9 a.m. Here is a look at what is on the agenda.
Meet MSU AIDED: a NASA-funded undergraduate team dedicated to creating delivery drones that ride public transit.
Fitton will move forward in his role to empower users to be engaged in clinic workflows, optimize electronic medical records, cultivate expansion of the digital patient experience and more.
The U.S. Supreme Court declined Michigan State University's appeal to hear the lawsuit from members of the women's swim and dive team. MSU is disappointed by the decision because of a disagreement on how Title IX should be interpreted.
MSU DPPS received a report of a carjacking that occurred along West Circle Drive near the Main Library around midnight on Friday.
“Winterizing is just an important part of taking care of a garden traditionally and both in terms of horticultural and agricultural sciences,” Gliniecki said. “The Anishinaabe perspective of it is that the ground and all the creatures in the ground need time to do their magic, which will feed the plants, which also aligns really nicely with modern western science views on how to care for soil and to regenerative soil practices.”
“We want to make sure residents have the best information on how to operate these machines because they are commercial laundry machines," Balks said. "Sometimes students may not realize they need to check a tag for if something can go in the dryer or they may be used to being able to fill up machines more at home than they can in here."
From national-level advocacy to guidance for the presidential search, the ASMSU general assembly passed several bills at its Dec. 8 meeting.
“Getting the education and outreach out there to educate farmers on how to appropriately apply fertilizer and best conserve their own land — that's literally the best thing that you can do,” Crank said. "It's better for the people who are eating their crops, and it's better for the people who want to be able to use our waterways for recreation.”
The fall 2022 semester included changes in Michigan State University leadership, midterm elections, women's soccer victories, Ticketmaster crashes and more. Read on for this semester’s biggest stories.