Betsy DeVos imposes record $4.5 million fine on Michigan State over Larry Nassar case
The Education Department is fining Michigan State University a record $4.5 million and requiring the school to make major changes after finding a "systemic failure to protect students from sexual abuse."
The public university has faced a reckoning since Larry Nassar, a former USA Gymnastics and Michigan State sports doctor, pleaded guilty to sexual assault and since scores of women gave harrowing testimony about the abuse they suffered and about how school officials did not help them. That was followed by revelations about sexual assault allegations leveled against William Strampel, the former dean of MSU's College of Osteopathic Medicine and Nassar's supervisor.
What happened at Michigan State was "abhorrent, inexcusable, and a total and complete failure to follow the law and protect students," said Education Secretary Betsy DeVos, who had launched investigations by the Office for Civil Rights and the Office of Federal Student Aid.
Michigan State President Samuel Stanley said Thursday that he had established an oversight committee that would comply with the Education Department's conditions spelled out in an agreement letter. The university signed an agreement with the Education Department to make major changes to the way it handles complaints and prevents sexual misconduct on campus.
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