A report detailing the recommendations for restructuring academic governance at MSU is a long time coming for some Faculty Council members. The report, Faculty Voice Task Force 1, was brought to Faculty Council in fall 2006, which has worked to complete restructuring by this semester’s end.
“We wanted to be more informed about what’s going on with the university and on the campus,” Ford said. Simon said Dubai is a region of vital importance to MSU.
With graduation looming in May, graduate student Michael Teager’s vision of the future involves walking, master’s degree in hand, into the real world and an uncertain job market. Teager plans to take some time off between graduating with a dual master’s degree in musicology and saxophone performance and starting his career.
What a difference a year makes. Or, in the case of the annual State of the University address, doesn’t make. MSU President Lou Anna K. Simon said her address last February focused on three key points: MSU’s global impact, the MSU College of Human Medicine in Grand Rapids and public universities’ roles in the state economy.
ASMSU will spend more than a quarter-million dollars on two concerts planned for the first week of April, but not without critics. Garry Hartlieb, ASMSU’s finance committee chair, was one of several ASMSU representatives that questioned bills passed during a Student Assembly meeting Feb.
When Tiffany Macias was diagnosed with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, or ALS, one year ago, the loss of movement in her mouth muscles impaired her speech. But the effects that ALS, commonly known as Lou Gehrig’s disease, have had on Macias’ speaking abilities couldn’t keep her from talking about the importance of treatment and support from the MSU Clinical Center.
A new student group, Students for Prosperity, wants to see for themselves where tuition dollars and other money given to MSU is being used.
Wendy Yuen saw break dancing, Taekwondo and step dancing at the Lunar New Year Show on Saturday, and couldn’t pick a performance she liked the most.
ASMSU’s Student Assembly allocated $300,000 to fund three concerts later this semester during its meeting Feb. 7.
Pink and red rose petals covered the floor and the words “love” and “amor” shone under the lights at the 11th annual Latin Xplosion on Friday.
Students interested in the renewable energy and biofuel industry in Michigan can present their research and invention proposals to field experts at Biofuel Inventors’ Day.
Author Jessica Weiner, dubbed America’s “Queen of Self-Esteem,” will speak at 8 p.m. Tuesday at Wharton Center.
A 29-year-old MSU student was found dead at about 6:30 p.m. Wednesday in his Spartan Village apartment.
Claudia Gonzalez learned Thursday to understand and interact with people who identify outside of binary genders from someone who has lived the life firsthand.
Winning makes Abby Schirmer feel like all her hard work has paid off. The international relations senior got that feeling last weekend when the MSU debate team took home top honors in the Owen L. Coon “Big Ten” Debate Championships held at Northwestern University.
A proposed 2.7 percent increase in MSU’s state funding is a good sign for the future of higher education, MSU President Lou Anna K. Simon said.
A federal judge is reviewing the constitutionality of Proposal 2 after hearing arguments Wednesday in a U.S. District Court in Detroit.
MSU officials have banned Richard Shafer, assistant director of Student Life, from contacting students for the remainder of the semester amid an investigation to determine if he violated university policy.
When it comes to academic governance at MSU, it takes a majority — quite literally — to get things done.