Protecting the health and safety of MSU students, faculty, staff and visitors requires the cooperation of all members of the community, not only through personal compliance with the MSU Community Compact, but to encourage others to comply. We can get through this Spartans! Together We Will!
January 29, 2021
“This ordinance will provide our police officers with the continued ability to write tickets for violations of public health orders, including the current gathering limits that have been put into place for the health and safety of community members,” said East Lansing City Manager George Lahanas. “With a new, more contagious variant of COVID-19 detected in our state, it is more important than ever to be vigilant. That means continuing to wear a mask, practice safe physical distancing, avoid gatherings and practice regular hand washing.”
Community members are reminded of the following public health and emergency orders:
Read the full Press Release.
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Check out the podcast: People, Space, and Place, a Geography focused podcast with graduate student cohosts Kionna Henderson, Veda Hawkins and Raven Mitchell. Find them here: https://anchor.fm/peopleplacespace
Kionna Henderson is the 20-21 COGS Representative for the MSU Department of Geography, Environment, and Spatial Sciences.
Whether or not you were able to make it to the virtual graduate school orientation event, The Graduate School has kept the event page active so that you are able to access the breadth of resources uploaded. Find more at https://grad.msu.edu/ResourceFair2020
You can also find more details about our live outreach appointments here.
In their October 14, 2020 full council meeting, The Council of Graduate Students (COGS) passed, by unanimous vote, a statement condemning the proposed DHS F/J Visas Policy. The statement was unanimously approved by the COGS Full Council in response to the proposed rule: “Establishing a Fixed Time Period of Admission and an Extension of Stay Procedure for Nonimmigrant Academic Students, Exchange Visitors, and Representatives of Foreign Information Media” (Federal Register Number 2020-20845). It will be submitted as a public comment and distributed to the MSU congressional delegation.
COGS encourages MSU graduate and professional students to submit their own public comment at https://beta.regulations.gov/document/ICEB-2019-0006-0001 by the October 25, 2020 deadline.
You can see a pdf of the full COGS statement HERE.
