MSU offers a variety of resources to help the community increase awareness and identify ways to support an inclusive campus. The following resources have been created by various programs and departments across the university.
Conversations about how to create accessible learning experiences in higher education often begin and end with providing disabled students (see note below) with the reasonable accommodations they are entitled to under the Americans with Disabilities Act.
The topic of bullying often is associated with younger students, however, students in higher education are not immune to these behaviors. As entering college students learn to navigate their new and likely wider social networks on campus, they continue to be at risk for experiencing physical, relational, and cyber forms of bullying. Research suggests that bullying is a widespread issue on college campuses, with 60% of college students witnessing a student bully another student ...
Bullies have always existed, so why is it important to address cyberbullying? In a nutshell, it can
be extremely detrimental to the victim’s physical and mental health and, in some cases, possibly
deadly. Since cyberbullying allows the anonymity of bullying from a distance, it can also be
easily hidden from parents, friends and school administrators and adds an almost invisible
dimension to the traditional face-to-face bullying that can be hard to detect and address
Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972 prohibits sex discrimination in education. This comprehensive federal civil rights law covers all students and staff in any educational institution or program that receives federal funding, including local school districts, colleges and universities, for-profit schools, career and technical education agencies, libraries, and museums.