Michigan State University has reached a settlement with survivors of the Feb. 13, 2023 campus shooting, two years after legal action was taken against the university, lawyers representing them announced Tuesday morning.
Michigan State University will host its fifth annual Juneteenth celebration in the recently built Multicultural Center on June 12 from 5 p.m.-8:30 p.m with doors opening at 4:30 p.m.
President Donald Trump signed a proclamation Wednesday evening that bans citizens from 12 countries from entering the U.S. and imposes heightened restrictions on seven others. The move is the Trump administration’s latest effort to tighten immigration rules, placing MSU international students and scholars in uncertain territory.
The Michigan State University Union will celebrate 100 years as a cornerstone of campus life next Thursday, June 12, with a centennial kickoff event designed to honor its history. Organizers say the goal is to honor the exact date the building first opened — June 12, 1925 — while launching a yearlong celebration that includes homecoming festivities and a closing event in April of 2026.
Recent Michigan State University graduate Liam Richichi is no stranger to politics. During his time on campus, he was active in MSU College Democrats — eventually serving as chapter president and leading its efforts during the 2024 election season. Richichi now works as the constituent services director for State Representative Jason Morgan. Now, the political theory and constitutional democracy graduate is taking on a new challenge: running for one of two open seats on the East Lansing City Council in the city’s Nov. 5 general election.
Jon Dykema, Michigan State University’s executive senior associate athletic director for student-athlete management and assistant general counsel, is leaving the university just three months after his arrival to join the NFL’s Jacksonville Jaguars in a front office role.
The Office for International Students and Scholars at Michigan State University sent out an email earlier this week warning international students not to travel outside of the U.S. The decision follows reports that the U.S. Department of State has temporarily suspended visa interviews for international students intending to study in the United States.
Michigan State University has announced the appointment of Georgia Tech’s J Batt as the next athletic director on Tuesday morning, one month after the departure of former Athletic Director Alan Haller, which triggered a nationwide search.
Gov. Gretchen Whitmer has decided not to remove Trustees Rema Vassar and Dennis Denno after the Board of Trustees voted to refer Vassar and Denno to the governor for consideration of their removal from the board in March 2024, according to letters from the Office of the Governor.
MSU hosted the yearly Odyssey of the Mind World Finals over the weekend, bringing challenges for the over 9,000 attendees.
The NCAA has sent Michigan State University its notice of allegations following the university’s self-reporting of recruiting violations during former football head coach Mel Tucker’s tenure, per the association’s Division I Infractions dashboard.
MSU President Kevin Guskiewicz announced Wednesday in an email that Laura Lee McIntyre will serve as Provost and Executive VP for Academic Affairs, following a nationwide search that began in October 2024.
For over a century, WKAR has served Michigan State University and the mid-Michigan community, over time expanding into its home within the College of Communication Arts & Sciences and providing educational programming, local news and community events through its PBS and NPR affiliate stations.
Michigan State University has reached a settlement with the creator of a quiz series that featured a question about Adolf Hitler on Spartan Stadium’s scoreboard, an incident that sparked public backlash and led to a lawsuit against the university.
In a May 7 memo sent to university deans and department heads, Michigan State University President Kevin Guskiewicz, Chief Financial Officer Lisa Frace and top university officials outlined a two-year plan to reduce its general fund spending in response to ongoing federal budget cuts.
The 35 cases don’t necessarily point to any one systemic issue, but they do contextualize internal conflict within the department and police’s occasionally tense relationship with the MSU community.
Michigan State University launched a comprehensive institutional assessment aimed at transforming its approach to relationship violence and sexual misconduct, university leaders and survivor advocates announced Thursday, May 8.
One semester into Donald Trump's presidency, MSU has lost millions in federal funding to research. The cuts have left faculty and administrators grappling with what this means for the future of research in their fields.
Campus police sometimes struggled to properly respond to cases of Relationship Violence and Sexual Misconduct. One officer suggested a survivor was “making stuff up.” Another questioned a survivor’s credibility based on the way they recounted what had happened to them. Yet another violated widely-circulated protocols requiring employees to report suspected violations of RVSM to an investigatory body. And sometimes, DPPS employees themselves faced accusations of sexual misconduct.
After a rumored threat went viral across campus earlier this year, some Michigan State students, faculty, staff and parents said the university left them in the dark for too long.