Low resident numbers bring financial hit to MSU housing
Michigan State University’s Residential and Hospitality Services has taken one of the largest financial burdens at the university due to COVID-19.
“With a COVID-19 outbreak, we ve had a lot of uncertainty about what s going on, MSU vice president for finance Mark Haas said at the Feb. 16 Faculty Senate meeting. So far, we ve run several hundred different budget and economic scenarios that we ve analyzed since March of last year.
The university was expecting the general fund to take a bigger financial hit, but after looking at other departments, it was found to be more of a bright spot.
ASMSU passes bill in support of petition to reassess the 5th-Year Internship Program for teaching students Education senior Emma Barnes studies on their balcony on Sept. 4, 2020. Photo by Annie Barker | The State News
ASMSU unanimously passed Bill 57-79 during its general assembly meeting on March 4 to support the petition for the College of Education to reassess the state of the 5th year internship program for teaching students.
The petition, which has garnered over 670 signatures since Feb. 12, is asking for the College of Education to acknowledge the negative impact of the program on students’ finances and mental health.
“Although the fifth-year internship may boost the College of Education s nationa
MSU remembers alumna and former trustee Barbara Sawyer-Koch
The Michigan State University community is remembering alumna, trustee emerita and philanthropist Barbara Sawyer-Koch, 72, who died March 6, 2021.
Born in Menominee, Michigan, Sawyer-Koch was retired from the Michigan Department of Treasury. She earned her master’s degree in public administration in 1990 from the College of Social Science and served on the MSU Board of Trustees from Jan. 1, 1979, through 1994. Her husband, Donald Koch, a professor emeritus in the Department of Philosophy in the College of Arts and Letters, preceded her in death in 2018.
The pair were members of the Wharton and Landon giving societies, supporting MSU over many years and in many ways.
MSU: 75% of fall undergrad classes will be in person
MSU President Samuel Stanley Jr. encouraged staff and students to get a COVID-19 vaccination as soon as they qualify.
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A sign outside the Michigan State University Student Union building alerts students to MSU s face covering rule on Friday, Aug. 21, 2020. Students at Michigan universities are receiving emails from their schools welcoming them back for the fall, but a cloud of concern is hovering because of the coronavirus pandemic. To go online or to come in person has been the debate, but since Michigan State University announced Tuesday it will go online for the next semester, the debate is reaching a fever pitch. (AP Photo/Anna Nichols)