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Michigan State president announces resignation

January 26, 2018 / PSU-AAUP

OregonLive
By The Associated Press
January 24, 2018

LANSING, Mich. -- Michigan State President Lou Anna Simon has announced that she is resigning.

Simon is stepping down in the wake of a scandal involving Larry Nassar, who worked at Michigan State as a medical doctor. Nassar was sentenced Wednesday to 40 to 175 years in prison for molesting young girls and women under the guise of medical treatment.

Many of the victims accused the university of mishandling past complaints about Nassar.

Read the full article at the OregonLive website here.