Interim President John Engler appeared before the U.S. Senate Subcommittee on Consumer Protection, Product Safety, Insurance and Data Security on Tuesday to testify about the actions taken by MSU in light of ex-MSU and USA Gymnastics doctor Larry Nassar's sexual abuse.
The MSU Board of Trustees have issued a request for proposals for a firm to lead the search for a new, permanent university president.
Rides on every on-campus bus route will be free for MSU students, staff and faculty starting this fall, the university and the Capital Area Transportation Authority, or CATA, announced Wednesday.
Vice President Bill Beekman approved as MSU's athletic director in a special Board of Trustees meeting Tuesday.
Engler has been called to testify before a U.S. Senate subcommittee on the role MSU has played in handling sexual misconduct.
Ex-dean of MSU's College of Osteopathic Medicine William Strampel was in court Thursday in Veterans Memorial Courthouse in Lansing.
Strampel, newly retired, returns to court this Thursday.
There were interviews scheduled on MSU's campus in April and May of 2018 for 40 university employees as part as the U.S. Department of Education's investigation into the university's handling of ex-MSU and USA Gymnastics doctor Larry Nassar's abuse, according to a report done by the Lansing State Journal.
Strampel signs a retirement agreement on July 5 ending his employment at MSU.
As a part of the budget for the 2018-19 school year presented at the June 22 Board of Trustees meeting, new Title IX related positions have been created.
Since taking medical leave, Strampel has been collecting a $217,903 annual salary and other benefits while facing four criminal charges in court. Changes to the university’s tenure policy could alter this course.
One of two counts of sodomy is dropped due to insufficient evidence in the continuation of Joseph Hattey's preliminary trial on Thursday.
Ex-MSU and USA Gymnastics doctor Larry Nassar faces additional charges of sexual assault in Texas.
The announcement of a permanent MSU president will come in June 2019, according to a timeline detailing the selection of the next president that was presented Wednesday by Trustees Dianne Byrum and Melanie Foster.
The MSU Board of Trustees will announce a "presidential search timeline" tomorrow at 10 a.m. in the Plant and Soil Sciences building, according to a Tuesday press release.
MSU is to pay off its $500 million settlement between the university and survivors of ex-MSU and USA Gymnastics doctor Larry Nassar's sexual abuse with general revenue bonds.
Bonds, not tuition or state funding, will pay for the $500 million settlement negotiated between MSU and survivors of ex-MSU doctor Larry Nassar.
The university will implement a tuition freeze for in-state freshmen in 2018-19 and a tuition freeze for all undergraduate students in 2019-20. The $500 million settlement between the university and the plaintiffs in the Larry Nassar sex abuse case won't affect tuition rates.
Community concerns, a 2018-19 fiscal budget, tuition rates and trustees' thoughts on interim President John Engler were all points of discussion at the MSU Board of Trustees' June 22 meeting.
A motion to terminate John Engler as interim president of MSU failed 6-2 at Friday's Board of Trustees meeting.