A lack of funding from the state is pushing universities to raise tuition costs, only adding to the massive debts some students face. A bill introduced by state Sen. Curtis Hertel Jr. might alleviate the burden.
Hope Project, a recent MSU student group founded in November 2014, organized the event to raise money to build a secondary school for HIV-positive orphans being taken care of by HOPE Village Children’s Home, run by its parent group, Hope Endeavors. The organization’s name is sometimes stylized as H.O.P.E., which is an acronym for “Helping Orphans, Prospering Everyone.”
While students tend to believe they can leave a class if a professor is more than 15 minutes late, the MSU ombudsman denies the existence of this policy.
The first individual arrested in relation to the weekend disturbances in Cedar Village after the MSU men's basketball victories in their Sweet Sixteen and Elite Eight victories, was arraigned on Tuesday, according to an East Lansing Police Department statement. Dylan Carl Bonell, a 19-year-old from Plymouth, MI, is charged with two misdemeanor disorderly conduct charges and one minor in possession of alcohol charge.
MSU is home to an abundance of religions, ethnicities and cultures. Some students are doing all they can to promote their customs.
Though they all agree that their job is to help and encourage students, these ICAs experience a range of challenges in their jobs.
When one thinks of culture, many things come to mind -- music, sports, clothes -- but also food. For Michigan State, a university with over 7,000 international students, one place where this comes into play is the cafeterias. From Brody Complex to Akers Hall, many things have been done to appeal to different cultures across campus.
Before the sun rises, international relations junior Mohammed Rathur wakes up to pray. As a Muslim, he prays five times a day, throughout the day.
Michael Rush, the founding director of the Eli and Edythe Broad Art Museum, passed away March 27 after a two-year battle with pancreatic cancer, an MSU statement said.
MSU students have to take certain classes to graduate, ones that meet very specific requirements.
Tinkering with wheels, pedals and handlebars, members of Together We Riseap, a national non-profit that helps improve the experience of children in the U.S. foster care system, hosted a bike build during the weekend in Case Hallap to support Lansing area children in foster care.
University Activities Board, in junction with the Women’s Resource Center and Spartan Body Pride, provided relaxing activities that MSU students and a guest could take part in.
Amidst the basketball excitement of March Madness, MSU football fans have an opportunity to see the team in action this Saturday.
Hazing and bullying could be more clearly defined in university policy, per an action taken by University Council on Tuesday to modify the general student regulations to include more specific language on a number of offenses.
Amid the silence of the MSU corporate test kitchen on the upper floor of McDonel Hall near midnight, five workers continue a process that will last long until daybreak.
Students at MSU utilized the Black Lives Matter activism campaign to start a new organization on campus, HandsUpMSU, drawing attention to human right issues locally, nationally and internationally.
MSU and MSU parking are instituting a "Pay by Plate" parking kiosk in Parking Ramp 6, located off Grand River Avenue between Olin Health Center and the Human Ecology building.
“I would say interning with the Capitol has opened a lot of doors because you meet a lot of people from different committees,” Pascoe said.
In 2012, Michigan Gov. Rick Snyder signed a bill that rendered any graduate employee besides teaching assistants unable to unionize and bargain for work-place protections.
Almost 20,000 students and alumni are members of the MSU Craigslist and Free & For Sale groups on Facebook.