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Michigan State University has reached a settlement with the creator of a quiz series that featured a question about Adolf Hitler on Spartan Stadium’s scoreboard, an incident that sparked public backlash and led to a lawsuit against the university.
The Sutton Foster Awards honor exceptional high school musical theatre performances across the state of Michigan, with 73 schools represented through 150 nominees.
Thousands of students in all age groups from schools around the world are expected to be on campus next week for the 2025 Odyssey of the Mind World Finals.
In a May 7 memo sent to university deans and department heads, Michigan State University President Kevin Guskiewicz, Chief Financial Officer Lisa Frace and top university officials outlined a two-year plan to reduce its general fund spending in response to ongoing federal budget cuts.
The 35 cases don’t necessarily point to any one systemic issue, but they do contextualize internal conflict within the department and police’s occasionally tense relationship with the MSU community.
Michigan State University launched a comprehensive institutional assessment aimed at transforming its approach to relationship violence and sexual misconduct, university leaders and survivor advocates announced Thursday, May 8.
One semester into Donald Trump's presidency, MSU has lost millions in federal funding to research. The cuts have left faculty and administrators grappling with what this means for the future of research in their fields.
Campus police sometimes struggled to properly respond to cases of Relationship Violence and Sexual Misconduct. One officer suggested a survivor was “making stuff up.” Another questioned a survivor’s credibility based on the way they recounted what had happened to them. Yet another violated widely-circulated protocols requiring employees to report suspected violations of RVSM to an investigatory body. And sometimes, DPPS employees themselves faced accusations of sexual misconduct.
After a rumored threat went viral across campus earlier this year, some Michigan State students, faculty, staff and parents said the university left them in the dark for too long.
The Michigan State University Department of Police and Public Safety is seeking the community’s help in identifying a person of interest in connection with an assault investigation during commencements on May 4 at Breslin Center.
Cuts to federal funding for research and increasing health care costs have led Michigan State to the "difficult conclusion" that it must adjust its financial path, the university president announced Monday.
Vice President of Research and Innovation Doug Gage said there is no way for the university to make up for all of the funding that has been lost.
A years-old warning about harassment by “nationally known faculty members” is still shrouded in secrecy.
When a contract containing conflicts of interests comes before the trustees, they approve it every single time.
Michigan State University has dissolved the Neighborhood Student Success Collaborative after a year-long internal review found its functions had been absorbed by other student support offices across campus. The closure took effect April 17 and included layoff notices for NSSC staff.
Michigan State University’s College of Engineering unveiled a new undergraduate technology engineering program, serving as the college’s latest response to industry demand for practice-ready engineers.
This self-imposed probe could further complicate MSU’s escalating dispute with the former coach.
On April 21, Arifin pled guilty to only one of those counts — aggravated possession of child sexually abusive material — while the remaining five counts have been dismissed, court records show.
After two years, over $10 million and mixed results in key cases, experts are raising eyebrows at MSU’s pricey project.