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Bids offer first glimpse of MSU sexual misconduct review
The bids vary greatly in scope — and cost.
Title IX investigators collaborate with university lawyers
Title IX investigators talk regularly with university lawyers, sometimes even sending drafts of reports and seeking edits to them.
With AI dining tech, MSU knows if you didn’t finish your plate
New artificial intelligence-enhanced technology is snapping pictures of uneaten food at two of Michigan State University’s dining halls, and its creator says it's already made insights into the causes of food waste.
Read two years of MSU Police misconduct cases
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.
Misconduct cases undercut MSU Police’s 'trauma-informed' efforts
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.
