Inside MSU, the response to Trump is about "threading a needle" 🧵🧵🧵

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Federal agencies have begun “requesting certification” that MSU doesn’t operate DEI programs as a condition of receiving federal funding, according to an internal email from MSU’s general counsel.

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The MSU law professor who wrote a chapter of Project 2025 will be the FCC’s top lawyer.

I got ahold of emails showing his alignment with the president.

He said there was “no insurrection,” a “crooked election,” and that “the indictment is bullshit.”
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At its board meeting last week, MSU doubled down on its DEI defense amid Trump administration hostility.

Read this report and the rest of our board meeting coverage over on statenews.com
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MSU board chair has high hopes for divestment committee, despite criticism

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Michigan State plans to raise upwards of $3 billion in its upcoming fundraising push — a goal that dwarfs that of any other capital campaign in the university's history.

Full story here:
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A scholar allegedly plagiarized by Jerlando Jackson says he was never consulted for MSU's internal review that exonerated the College of Ed dean.

That revelation raised questions among experts about the veracity of that review.

My latest:
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Michigan State University had a panel discussion scheduled for next week on the "Future of DEI Policy at MSU."

An executive order signed by President Donald Trump Monday ending DEI in the federal government appears to have changed those plans.
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NEW: Months ago, an MSU dean was accused of plagiarism and implicated in a conservative media crusade against DEI scholarship.

Now, MSU has "exonerated" the dean of wrongdoing, and condemned "racist" and "despicable" attacks against him.
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This bizarre new story may make you rethink a narrative surrounding Larry Nassar's years of unchecked abuse.

My latest, with @owenmccarthyjrn.bsky.social
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Michigan State University investigated Larry Nassar in 1999 for a series of blood tests he conducted on young USA Gymnasts at his campus office.

Read the bizarre and previously unreported story here:
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SCOOP: MSU is preparing for the public launch of a major fundraising push “in the coming months.”

The school’s last campaign launched in 2014, before a host of perception-shaping incidents that have defined the university’s difficult decade.
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A former grad student is alleging her exposure to pesticides during the course of field research at MSU gave her cancer.

She intends to seek damages from MSU in connection to the allegations.

For The State News:
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