Michigan State University’s Academic Congress has voted to support the removal of Trustees Rema Vassar and Dennis Denno by the governor after an outside investigation found the trustees violated board bylaws and code of ethics by interfering in university affairs and using student groups to orchestrate attacks against colleagues, among other things.
A letter from the Black Students' Alliance to MSU President Kevin Guskiewicz highlighted the importance of the university working to ensure that Black students' experiences improve following a series of racial harassment incidents on campus.
The Associated Students of Michigan State University passed bills advocating for American Sign Language classes at MSU, more free spaces for student organizations and the implementation of gun violence prevention measures at Big Ten universities at its general assembly meeting last night.
A former MSU employee filed a lawsuit against the university Monday, alleging that his termination in 2021 constituted discrimination on the basis of race, national origin and age.
Though strides towards achieving equity have been made, Black women still experience much higher mortality rates, risk of diseases and shorter life expectancies than women of other races do. Three Michigan State University leaders from varied backgrounds are working to tackle systemic and systematic inequalities at the heart of the most basic human right: healthcare.
“I can’t speculate about what may have gone wrong in the past and why,” Guskiewicz said. “There may have been challenges between certain board members and the administration, but I’m looking forward and excited about what’s in front of us.”
Approximately 60 red dresses have been hung up around MSU's campus as a part of the REDress Project by Red River Métis artist Jaime Black-Morsette to draw attention to the ongoing crisis of missing and murdered Indigenous women and girls.
Michigan State University is seeking community input on a memorial for the Feb. 13, 2023 campus shooting that killed three and injured five students. The university will hold focus groups this month to hear community feedback on what it should look like.
MSU Police and Public Safety answered to a hoax call regarding a bomb threat and weapons threat on campus Thursday night, leading to heavy police presence on campus in dorm buildings and surrounding areas.
Michigan State University and Mel Tucker are set to face a $75 million lawsuit from Brenda Tracy, a rape survivor and advocate who the university found to have been sexually harassed by the disgraced former coach while consulting for his team.
The MSU board’s “unprecedented rush to judgment … represent(s) a clear abuse of institutional power designed to silence those who speak uncomfortable truths,” trustee Rema Vassar said in a statement today.
On his first day as MSU's 22nd president, Kevin Guskiewicz outlined his goals for MSU and addressed the findings of the Miller & Chevalier report regarding the board of trustees in a campus-wide email sent out Monday morning.
With new MSU President Kevin Guskiewicz starting today, student leaders are looking forward to what they hope will be a fruitful future. To accomplish this, they say, Guskiewicz must listen to student demands.
Michigan State University’s Board of Trustees voted to refer board chair Rema Vassar and trustee Dennis Denno to the governor to consider their removal at a special meeting late Sunday evening, hours after Vassar announced her resignation from her position as board chair.
Prominent Palestinian student activist Saba Saed says the criticism facing the board members has nothing to do with their support for Palestinian students.
Michigan State University trustee Rema Vassar has resigned from her position as board chair, according to The Detroit News. Her resignation comes two hours before a special board meeting will be held to discuss the results of a 63-page investigation into board chair impropriety that was released Wednesday.
The student groups’ petition, which has received over 100 signatures since being created this afternoon, says the embattled board members have given “unwavering support for the Black community” and should not be removed following an outside firm’s findings that they breached board bylaws and the code of ethics.
Trustee Dennis Denno rebuked an outside firm’s findings that he and chair Rema Vassar violated board bylaws and the code of ethics in a statement released this afternoon. Denno said he will “accept a censure but contest any other form of punishment.”
The Michigan State University Board of Trustees will hold a special meeting tomorrow to discuss a recently released report of an investigation into widespread allegations of misconduct by board chair Rema Vassar.
A Michigan State University professor in the Broad Business College has been charged with six counts of “child pornography-related allegations,” according to the Ingham County Prosecutor’s Office.