Bennett currently works as the associate provost, inclusion and chief diversity officer at Northwestern university. Before that he was the associate dean, recruiting and professional development at Brown University’s graduate school.
Seventeen fraternities voted in favor of the moratorium. The vote, which took place in August, needed 19 votes to pass. According to a letter from MSU Associate Director for Fraternity and Sorority Life Guillermo Flores, 11 MSU fraternities voted against a temporary prohibition of certain social events during the COVID-19 pandemic.
“I think it's went well, I've done this in-person and there's obviously been less people joining, but I was surprised by the amount, I thought it'd be less,” Psi Upsilon member Matthew Hankey said.
I wanted to make a change, and I have seen so many Girl Up organizations doing so, mainly through my friends on the other side of the world who are also involved with the campaign. Girl Up has a large platform and is something that's deeply interconnected, so we can easily offer a helping hand to those in need.
ASMSU passed a bill approving their new director of IT Nichole Dastmalchi and director of marketing Spencer Horan.
The Michigan State student affairs department may be getting makeover after Maybank's departure.
“The chief diversity officer has to hold himself, herself or theyself to a standard where they are creating the same level of expectation as every other chief leader in the organization," Page said.
This week of results is the highest number of positive cases among students since the week of July 27, according to the website.
Director of Communications and Marketing for the College of Agriculture and Natural Resources Eileen Gianiodis said this decision comes as a result of business and economic disruptions caused by the COVID-19 pandemic. With MSU moving to remote learning for the fall, Gianiodis said they realized sales would only continue to decline.
"In actuality, MSU doesn’t have any sort of obligation to help us," Chase Maples said. "We are the ones who signed contracts, right, we are the ones who signed the leases. But on the other hand, we also had signed that not expecting there was going to be a global pandemic, expecting that we were going to be going to go to school full-time with in person teaching."
The motion will be voted on at next week's Board of Trustees meeting.
Michigan State University is planning to create a stand-alone multicultural building. Though, this isn't the first time the university has went through this process.
Low turnout, technical problems and thankfulness for the event define 2020's virtual Sparticipation.
Meet the candidates to fill the two spots available on the MSU Board of Trustees for the Nov. 3 election.
The third CDO finalist — DeBrenna LaFa Agbenyiga — wants the education to go beyond the campus, and for the MSU community to take it with them when they leave.
IPF switched their water supply to the new water treatment plant and tower Wednesday. Although, it may take up to two years for a noticeable change in water quality to occur.
First generation students made up 21.2% of the MSU incoming class of 2023. Now, those students not only have to navigate a new college experience, but a global pandemic as well.
When students were expected to return to campus at MSU, Keith Nelson was worried if students would strictly follow safety guidelines. Even though there will be fewer students, the message remains the same.
The investigation found that most of those named involved failing to report concerns about Strampel.