MSU’s recruitment information will go head-to-head with more than 200 other universities this academic year. The Web site CollegePortraits.org gives prospective students an opportunity to compare data from about 225 four-year public universities involved in the Voluntary System of Accountability.
Almost 3,000 plastic bottles. More than 200 pounds of newspaper. Almost 100 magazines and more than 550 cans and bottles. These numbers reflect the amount of recyclable materials left scattered about lawns, on front porches and crushed into the sidewalks around East Lansing and MSU last week.
The aroma of butternut squash soup and smoked turkey, freshly prepared with organic meat and produce from the new Yakeley hoop house, filled the air of the tent at the first Farm to Fork Fair.
ASMSU will not give $35,055.08 more in funds to its Programming Board, despite complaints from the board that it was expecting to receive the funds and was already planning on using them.
Delia Koo, for whom the MSU International Academic Center is named, died last week at the age of 87. She first made her appearance at MSU by donating $3 million to the university to assist international students in 2000.
After receiving lower than expected appropriations from the state this year, the MSU Board of Trustees voted Friday to increase tuition for spring semester. Tuition will increase 1.2 percent in the spring, but students won’t notice a difference on their bills until the summer semester. MSU will cover the tuition increase in the spring with money from its general fund.
Spirits were high and water levels were even higher Saturday as volunteers attended the Red Cedar River Cleanup. About 50 volunteers, working on sections of the river ranging from the Kellogg Center parking ramp to Hagadorn Road, pulled several bikes, as well as a futon, shopping cart and desktop computer, from the river.
MSU’s YouVote initiative will answer students’ questions about voting in the November election in residence halls this week. Students may ask questions about voting absentee and in person, and will be able to check their voter registration status.
A proposed reform of MSU’s academic integrity policy could give faculty an edge in slashing the number of academic dishonesty cases. A rule drafted by the University Committee on Academic Policy, or UCAP, proposed electronically tracking a student’s history of academic dishonesty.
The MSU Board of Trustees approved today a tuition and fee increase of 1.2 percent for the Spring 2009 semester. The increase comes after state appropriations for the 2008-2009 school year were 2 percent less — or $5.8 million less — than what the board expected when it developed the current budget. The 1.2 percent tuition and fee increase will cover $2.9 million of that difference. The remaining $2.9 million will be funded from the 2007-2008 general fund balance.
Cars will plug into outlets, a smart electric grid will turn off appliances at night, wind turbines and solar panels will sit on rooftops and all the energy will be captured by a battery. It’s just another day in the neighborhood.
Students searching the Internet for digital books could soon narrow their search to one site — HathiTrust.org. The University of California’s library system joined the Committee on Institutional Cooperation, or CIC, to create HathiTrust, a shared digital repository.
The Michigan Department of Environmental Quality awarded a $1 million grant to the MSU Institute of Water Research, according to the Footprints newsletter found on MSU’s Office of Campus Sustainability Web site.
The phrase “black power” was coined during the civil rights movement to stress unity within the black community. More than 50 years later, MSU students are still pushing that message. The Black Student Alliance will host its 36th annual Black Power Rally at 6 p.m. today at Wharton Center’s Pasant Theatre.
There will be a documentary showing about the Invisible Children of Uganda at 7 p.m. today in B106 Wells Hall. The film, “Go,” will be presented by four representatives who traveled to Uganda and experienced the conflict firsthand in the northern part of the country.
Christoph Benning, an MSU professor of biochemistry and molecular biology, has been named the next editor-in-chief of The Plant Journal.
Richard Louv doesn’t think children spend enough time outside, and he’s coming to MSU to spread the word.
A “miscommunication” possibly could allocate $35,055.08 more in funds to ASMSU’s Programming Board to support student events across campus. ASMSU’s Student Assembly Finance Committee on Thursday passed the bill five votes to four that would give more funds to the board, which already receives about 20 percent of ASMSU’s total budget — about $1.3 million.
Three campus political groups will speak on national issues during a debate tonight in the Wonders Hall Kiva.
Thirty-seven U.S. Department of Energy committee members toured the Cyclotron on Monday as part of a process to determine where the $550 million Facility for Rare Isotope Beams, or FRIB, will be located.