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{{infobox University|name= Michigan State University|image= |motto= Advancing Knowledge. Transforming Lives.|endowment= United States dollar1.631 1000000000 (number)http://www.msutoday.msu.edu/04Oct2007-2|president= Dr. Lou Anna Simon, [1855 [Morrill Land-Grant Colleges Act University, Sea grant colleges|calendar = Semester|staff=|faculty= 4,500|students= 45,520|undergrad= 35,821|postgrad= 9,600|colors= Green and White" Official colors of Michigan State University". MSU Web Style Guide. 2005. Accessed April 12, 2007." Official MSU Green (for Web and Print Projects)". MSU A-Z. Accessed April 12, 2007.|city= East Lansing, Michigan|mascot= [Sparty |website= msu.edu|logo= -->Michigan State University (MSU) is a co-educational [public university research university in East Lansing, Michigan, Michigan United States. Founded in 1855, it was the pioneer land-grant institution and served as a model for future land-grant colleges in the United States under the 1862 Morrill Land-Grant Colleges Act. MSU pioneered the studies of packaging, Hospitality management studies, and music therapy. Today its study abroad program is the largest of any single-campus university in the country, offering more than 200 programs in more than 60 countries on all continents including Antarctica.

Following the introduction of the Morrill Act, the college became coeducational and expanded its curriculum beyond agriculture. After World War II, the number of students tripled as the institution became a major university. Today, MSU is the List of largest United States universities by enrollment in the United States, with 45,520 students and 4,500 Faculty (university) members.

MSU's NCAA Division I sports teams are called the Michigan State Spartans. They compete in the Big Ten Conference in all sports except ice hockey, in which the team is part of the Central Collegiate Hockey Association. MSU's American football team won the Rose Bowl Game in 1954, 1956, and 1988 and boasts six national championships. Its men's basketball team won the NCAA Men's Division I Basketball Championship in 1979 and 2000. The MSU men's ice hockey has won NCAA Men's Ice Hockey Championship in 1966, 1986, and 2007.

History Agriculture school marks the site of the old College Hall.The Michigan Constitution of 1850 called for the creation of an "agricultural school"," Michigan Constitution of 1850". Michigan Legislature. Article 13, Section 11. Accessed April 12, 2007. though it was not until February 12, 1855 that Michigan List of Governors of Michigan Kinsley S. Bingham signed a bill establishing the United States' first agriculture college, the Agricultural College of the State of Michigan.Widder, Keith. " Origins of MSU". MSU Sesquicentennial Celebration. January 16, 2004. Accessed April 12, 2007. Classes began in May 1857 with three buildings, five faculty members, and 63 male students. The first president, Joseph R. Williams, designed a curriculum that required more scientific study than practically any undergraduate institution of the era. It balanced science, liberal arts, and practical training. The curriculum excluded Latin language and Greek language studies, since most applicants did not study any classical languages in their rural high schools. However, it did require three hours of daily manual labour, which kept costs down for both the students and the College. Despite Williams' innovations and his defense of education for the masses, the State Board of Education saw Williams' curriculum as elitism. They forced him to resign in 1859 and reduced the curriculum to a two-year vocational program.

Land Grant pioneer In 1860, Joseph Williams became acting lieutenant governor" Joseph R. Williams Biographical Information". MSU University Archives and Historical Collection Accessed April 12, 2007. and helped pass the Reorganization Act of 1861. This gave the College a four-year curriculum and the power to grant master's degrees. Under the act, a newly-created body, known as the State Board of Agriculture, took over from the State Board of Education in running the institution." Milestones of MSU's Sesquicentennial". MSU University Archives and Historical Collection Accessed April 12, 2007. The College changed its name to State Agricultural College, and its first class graduated in the same year. However, there was no time for an elaborate graduation ceremony: the American Civil War had just begun, and the first alumni were drafted into the war effort. The following year, Abraham Lincoln signed the First Morrill Act of 1862 to support similar colleges, making the Michigan school a national model. Williams never witnessed the cause to which he had dedicated so much of his life, having taken ill and died the previous year.

Co-ed college The college first admitted women in 1870, although at that time there were no female residence halls. The few women who enrolled either boarded with faculty families or made the arduous stagecoach trek from Lansing, Michigan. Nonetheless, even from the early days female students took the same rigorous scientific agriculture courses as male students. In 1896, the faculty created a "Women Course" that melded a Family and consumer science curriculum with liberal arts and sciences. That same year, the College turned the old Abbot Hall male dorm into a women's dormitory and more firmly established itself as co-ed. However, it was not until 1899 that the State Agricultural College admitted its first African American student, William O. Thompson. He went on to teach at what is now Tuskegee University under the wing of Booker T. Washington, whom President Jonathan L. Snyder invited to be the Class of 1900 commencement speaker. A few years later, Myrtle Craig became the first female African American student to enroll at the College. Along with the Class of 1907, she received her degree from U.S. President Theodore Roosevelt, commencement speaker for the Semi-Centennial celebration. The City of East Lansing was incorporated in that same year, and two years later the college officially changed its name to Michigan Agricultural College (M.A.C.).

, sculpted by California artist Bruce Wolfe.Anderson, Kristin K. " Ceremony pays tribute to 'pragmatic visionary'". MSU Today. September 17, 2004. Accessed April 12, 2007.

Big Ten university During the early 20th century, M.A.C. expanded its curriculum well beyond agriculture. By 1925, it had expanded enough that it changed its name to Michigan State College of Agriculture and Applied Science (M.S.C.). In 1941, the Secretary of the State Board of Agriculture, John A. Hannah, became president of the College. He began the largest expansion in the institution's history, with the help of the 1945 G. I. Bill of Rights, which helped World War II veterans to receive an education. One of Hannah's strategies was to build a new dormitory building, enroll enough students to fill it, and use the income to start construction on a new dormitory. Under his plan, enrollment increased from 15,000 in 1950 to 38,000 in 1965. Hannah also got the chance to improve the athletic reputation of M.S.C. when the University of Chicago resigned from the Big Ten Conference in 1946. Hannah lobbied hard to take its place, gaining admission in 1950. Five years later, in its Centennial year of 1955, the State of Michigan renamed the College as Michigan State University of Agriculture and Applied Science. Nine years after that, the University governing body changed its name from the State Board of Agriculture to the MSU Board of Trustees. The State of Michigan allowed the University to drop the words "Agriculture and Applied Science" from its name. Since 1964, the institution has gone by the name of Michigan State University.

Global leader by 2012 Since the end of the Hannah era, Michigan State has shifted its focus from increasing the size of its student body to advancing its national and global reputation. In September 2005, current president Lou Anna Simon called for MSU, one of the Public Ivy, to become the global model leader for Land Grant institutions by the year 2012. Her plans include creating a new residential college and increasing National Institutes of Health donations past the United States dollar100 million mark. While there are over 100 Land-grant universities in the United States, she has stated that she would like Michigan State University to be the leader.Darrow, Bob. Simon: MSU to be model university. The State News. September 9, 2005. Accessed April 12, 2007.

Campus MSU's sprawling campus is located in East Lansing, Michigan. The campus is perched on the banks of the Red Cedar River (Michigan). Development of the campus started in 1856 with three buildings: a multipurpose building called College Hall, a dormitory later called "Saints' Rest", Saints Rest Aprin, 18, 2007 and a barn. Today, MSU's contiguous campus consists of 5,200 acres (21 km²), 2,000 acres (8 km²) of which are developed. There are currently 676 buildings: 203 for academics, 154 for agriculture, 245 for housing and food service, as well as 74 other buildings. Overall, the University has 21,931,085 square foot (2,037,464.5 square metre) of total indoor space." Building Data Summary". MSU Physical Plant. 2004. Accessed April 12, 2007. Connecting it all is 27 miles (43 kilometer) of roads and 100 miles (161 km) of sidewalks.Miller, Matthew. "MSU a 'city' unto itself]". Lansing State Journal. August 20, 2006. MSU also owns 44 non-campus properties, totaling 22,000 acres (89 km²) in 28 different counties." About LMO". MSU Land Management Office. August 29, 2005. Accessed April 12, 2007. North campus The oldest part of campus lies on the north bank of the Red Cedar. It includes Collegiate Gothic architecture, plentiful trees, and curving roads with few straight lines. It was in this area that the College built its first three buildings, of which none survive. Other historic buildings north of the river include Cowles House, the president's official residence, and Beaumont Tower, a carillon clock tower marking the site of College Hall, the original classroom building. To the east lies Eustace-Cole Hall, America's first freestanding laboratory for horticulture. Other landmarks include the bronze statue of former president John A. Hannah,Roeschke, Jaclyn. " Former 'U' president immortalized with bronze statue". State News. September 20, 2004. Accessed April 12, 2007. the W. J. Beal Botanical Garden, and the painted boulder known as "The Rock (Michigan State University)", which is a popular spot for theatre, tailgate party, and candlelight vigils. On the northwest corner of campus lies the University's hotel, the Kellogg Hotel and Conference Center.

South campus hosts many productions throughout the year and was host to the final US Presidential Debate before the 1992 election.The campus south of the river consists mostly of post-World War II International Style (architecture) buildings with sparse foliage, relatively straight roadways, and numerous parking lots. The "2020 Vision" Master Plan proposes replacing these parking lots with multi-storey car park and green space," 2020 Vision Campus Master Plan". MSU Campus Planning and Administration. 2006. Accessed April 12, 2007. but these plans will take many years to reach fruition. As part of the master plan, the University erected a new bronze statue of "Sparty" in 2005. This replica replaced the original modernist terra cotta statue, which can still be seen horded inside Spartan Stadium, East Lansing. Notable academic and research buildings on the South Campus include the National Superconducting Cyclotron Laboratory and the Michigan State University College of Law. This part of campus is home to the Michigan State University Horticulture Gardens and the adjoining 4-H Children's Garden. South of the gardens lie the Canadian National and CSX Transportation railroads, which divide the main campus from thousands of acres of university-owned farmland.

Academics is located on the oldest part of campus between Beaumont Tower and the river.MSU has the List of largest US universities by enrollment student body in the U.S. There are 45,520 total students, with 35,821 undergraduates and 9,699 graduate school students. The student body is 55% female and 45% male. While 89% of students come from all 83 counties in the State of Michigan,"Michigan State University: Student Body". The Princeton Review. 2005. also represented are all 50 states in the U.S. and about 125 other countries." MSU Facts". Michigan State University Newsroom. 2006–2007. Accessed April 12, 2007. MSU has about 4,500 faculty and 6,000 staff members, and a student/faculty ratio of 19:1. Listed as a Public Ivy, Michigan State is a member of the Association of American Universities. Like other large American universities, MSU has a large number of teaching assistants teaching upper-level courses in certain disciplines. Michigan State University Ombudsman is the longest continually operating ombudsman office at a college or university in the country. Accessed: Oct,10,2007. Adjunct physics professor at MSU wins Nobel Prize

Rankings Michigan State ranks 75th in the world, according to a Shanghai Jiao Tong University study," Top 500 World Universities". Institute of Higher Education, Shanghai Jiao Tong University. August 15, 2006. Accessed April 12, 2007. with U.S. News & World Report's ranking MSU 70th in the U.S." America's Best Colleges 2007". U.S. News and World Report. Accessed April 12, 2007. The university has over 200 academic programs, several of them highly-ranked. U.S. News has ranked MSU's graduate-level elementary education"," America's Best Graduate Schools 2006: Elementary Education." U.S. News and World Report. Accessed April 12, 2007. secondary education," America's Best Graduate Schools 2006: Secondary Education." U.S. News and World Report. Accessed April 12, 2007. and Industrial and Organizational Psychology" America's Best Graduate Schools 2006: Psychology Specialties: Industrial/Organizational Psychology." U.S. News and World Report. Accessed April 12, 2007. programs number one for the last decade. In U.S. News also ranks MSU's nuclear physics program second, behind only Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Indeed, MSU’s Physics & Astronomy department ranks highly based on the number and impact of publications its faculty publishes. In addition to this, the 2008 U.S. News ranks Michigan State's Supply Chain Management program in the Eli Broad College of Business number one in the nation for the second year in a row.http://colleges.usnews.rankingsandreviews.com/usnews/edu/college/rankings/brief/bizspec10_brief.php The National Communication Association ranks MSU doctoral programs as the nation’s most effective in educating researchers in health communication and communication technology.Hollihan, Tom. " 2004 Study of the Reputational Programs in Communication. National Communications Association. Accessed April 12, 2007. Michigan State University College of Osteopathic Medicine has routinely ranked in the top five nationally for primary care according to U.S. News. MSU also is ranked in the top four in several other communication fields, including international/intercultural communication, mass communication and interpersonal communication. Other programs of note include criminal justice,Rykert, Wilbur Lewis. "The History of the School of Criminal Justice at Michigan State University 1935–1963" (Masters Thesis). 1985. music therapy," About Us: Fast Facts. MSU College of Music. Accessed April 12, 2007. Hospitality management studies," Historic Milestones" The School of Hospitality Business. Accessed April 12, 2007. packaging," History". MSU School of Packaging. Accessed April 12, 2007. political science," Achievements". MSU Department of Political Science. Accessed April 12, 2007. journalism CAS > Tour > Highlights and communications." CAS > Tour > Highlights.". MSU College of Communications Arts and Sciences. Accessed April 12, 2007. MSU's study abroad program is the largest of any single-campus university in the United States with 2,461 students studying abroad in 2004–2005 in over 60 countries on all continents, including Antarctica." Studies in Antarctic System Science—Antarctica". MSU Office of Study Abroad. Accessed April 12, 2007.

Research The university spent nearly United States dollar380,000,000 million in 2005-06 on research ," The MSU news room". The Center. 2006. Accessed August 29, 2007. capping a long history of productive research. In 1877, botany professor William J. Beal performed the first documented genetic crosses to produce hybrid maize, which led to increased yields. MSU dairy professor G. Malcolm Trout invented the process for the homogenization of milk in the 1930s. In the 1960s, MSU scientists developed cisplatin, a leading cancer fighting drug. Today Michigan State continues its research with facilities such as the United States Department of Energy-sponsored MSU-DOE Plant Research Laboratory and a particle accelerator called the National Superconducting Cyclotron Laboratory. In 2004, scientists at the Cyclotron produced and observed a new isotope of the element germanium, called Ge-60." New germanium isotope discovered at MSU". MSU Today. July 29, 2004. Accessed April 12, 2007. In that same year, Michigan State, in consortium with the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and the government of Brazil, broke ground on the 4.1-meter SOAR Telescope (SOAR) in the Andes Mountains of Chile. The consortium telescope will allow the Physics & Astronomy department to study galaxy formation and origins." Points of Pride". MSU Today. Accessed April 12, 2007. Since 1999, MSU has been part of another consortium called the Michigan Life Sciences Corridor, which aims to develop biotechnology research in the State of Michigan.Truscott, John. " Governor Signs Bill Creating 'Life Sciences Corridor' in Michigan". Michigan Executive Office press release. July 19, 1999. Accessed April 12, 2007. Finally, the College of Communication Arts and Sciences' Quello Center for Telecommunication Management and Law researches current issues of information and communication management.Michigan State University has the largest African studies faculty in the nation, producing more Ph.D. dissertations and conducting more development work in Africa than any other university. http://africa.msu.edu/ MSU African studies Center 8/29/07 . The faculty of the MSU African Studies Center, which has the third largest U.S. library on Africa, and conducts a range of research and development work in Africa. http://newsroom.msu.edu/site/indexer/2784/content.htm Michigan State University Newsroom 8/29/07

Endowment MSU's (private, non-Morrill Act) financial endowment started in 1916 when the Engineering Building burned down. Automobile magnate R.E. Olds helped the program stay afloat with a gift of $100,000. While this opened the door for other types of private donations, MSU has often lagged behind peer institutions in terms of endowments. As recently as the early 1990s, MSU was last among the eleven Big Ten schools, with barely over $100 million in endowment funds. However, in the early 2000s, the University started a campaign to increase the size of the endowment. At the close of FY 2004–2005, the endowment had risen to $1.325 billion, raising the University to sixth of the 11 Big Ten schools in terms of endowment; within $2 million of the fifth-rated school.Seguin, Rick. " Endowment surges in growth, rankings". MSU News Bulletin. 2006. Accessed April 12, 2007. The rapid increase in the size of the endowment will help to improve outdated facilities, such as the Music Building, which the College of Music hopes to soon replace with money from its alumni fundraising program." Capital Campaign". MSU School of Music. Accessed April 12, 2007.

Colleges Residential colleges MSU has several residential colleges, based on the Oxbridge "living-learning" model. By putting classes in student dormitories, these colleges improve student access to faculty and facilities. MSU's first residential college, Justin Morrill College started in 1965 with an interdisciplinary curriculum." Unofficial website". Justin Morrill College]. Accessed April 13, 2007. MSU closed Morrill College in 1979, but today the university has three residential colleges, including the recent opening of the Residential College in Arts and Humanities located in Snyder and Phillips halls.

Started in 1967, James Madison College tries to merge the best attributes of a small Public administration college and a major university. Classes in the college are small, with an average of 25 students, and most instructors are tenure track Faculty (university). James Madison College has about 1150 students total, with each freshman class containing about 320 students. "Quick Madison Facts". James Madison College @ Michigan State University. Accessed June 25, 2007 Each of Madison's four Academic major—Social Relations and Policy, International Relations, Political Theory and Constitutional Democracy, and Comparative Cultures and Politics "You and JMC". James Madison College @ Michigan State University. Accessed June 25, 2007—requires two years of foreign language and one year of "field experience” in an internship or study abroad program. Although Madison students make up about 4% of MSU graduates, they represent around 35% of the MSU’s Phi Beta Kappa Society members." Quick Madison Facts". James Madison College @ Michigan State University. Accessed April 12, 2007.



The Lyman Briggs College teaches math and science within social, historical and philosophical contexts." Educational Philosophy @ Lyman Briggs School". Lyman Briggs School of Science. Accessed April 13, 2007. Founded in 1967 as Lyman Briggs College, it was merged into the College of Natural Science in 1981, and was then known as Lyman Briggs School of Science." Growth and Expansion of Lyman Briggs School". Lyman Briggs School of Science. Accessed April 13, 2007. On June 15th, 2007, Lyman Briggs regained college status, making it once again Lyman Briggs College.Orlando, Jennifer. " Name change". State News. June 18, 2007. Accessed June 21, 2007. Many Lyman Briggs students intend to pursue careers in medicine, but the school supports over 30 coordinate majors, from human biology to computer sciences." Major Information @ Lyman Briggs School". Lyman Briggs School of Science. Accessed April 13, 2007. Lyman Briggs is one of the few colleges that lets undergraduates teach as "Learning Assistants."" Growth and Expansion of Lyman Briggs School" Lyman Briggs School of Science. p. 13. Accessed April 13, 2007.

In 2007, MSU will accept its first class of students for the Residential College in Arts & Humanities. Founded October 21, 2005,Collins, Laura. " Trustees approve residential college". State News. October 24, 2005. Accessed April 13, 2007. the college will provide around 600 undergraduates with an individualized curriculum in the liberal arts, visual arts and performing arts. Though all the students will graduate with the same academic degree, MSU will encourage students in the college to get a Double degree or specialization." Flexible Program". Michigan State University Residential College in Arts & Humanities. Accessed April 13, 2007. The university will house the new college in a newly-renovated Snyder-Phillips Hall, the location of MSU's first residential college, Justin Morrill College." RCAH Life". Michigan State University Residential College in Arts & Humanities. Accessed April 13, 2007.

Professional schools The Michigan State University College of Law is a private university law school, even though MSU is a public university institution. Founded in Detroit in 1891 as the Detroit College of Law, MSU bought the school in 1995, and moved it to East Lansing. Students attending MSU College of Law come from 42 states and 13 countries. The law school publishes the Michigan State Law Review" Main Page". Michigan State Law Review. Accessed April 13, 2007. and the Journal of Business and Securities law, one of the only nationally published student-run law journals dedicated to the leading issues confronting attorneys in the worlds of business/corporation law and securities law. Michigan State University College of Law is the home of the Geoffrey Fieger Trial Practice Institute," The Geoffrey Fieger Trial Practice Institute". Michigan State University College of Law. Accessed April 13, 2007. the first trial practice institute in the United States. The Intellectual Property and Communications Law program is ranked seventeenth nationally.White, Russ. " Press Release". Michigan State University Newsroom. April 4, 2006. Accessed April 13, 2007.

The Eli Broad College of Business has programs in accounting, information systems, finance, management, marketing and supply chain management, and The School of Hospitality Business. The school has 4,775 undergraduate students and 776 graduate students. The Eli Broad Graduate School of Management, which Business Week magazine ranks 11th among public institutions, offers 3 MBA programs, as well as double major with the Michigan State University College of Law.The Eli Broad College of Business and Eli Broad Graduate School of Management. Graduate Programs.

The Michigan State University College of Veterinary Medicine is one of three medical schools on campus. Michigan State University College of Veterinary Medicine. Education. The Michigan State University College of Human Medicine graduates students with medical doctor MD degrees and is split into six distinct campuses located in Lansing, Kalamazoo, Flint, Saginaw, Marquette and Grand Rapids. The College of Human Medicine has recently gained attention for its expansion into the Grand Rapids area, where a new campus is being built that is expected to fuel the growing medical industry in that region. http://www.nytimes.com/2007/07/11/realestate/commercial/11hill.html?ex=1187496000&en=07ec444174548dce&ei=50700. There is also a College of Osteopathic Medicine.

The [Michigan State University College of Music is known throughout the United States and in many parts of the world as a leading professional training ground for composers, conductors, performers, and music educators, historians, theorists, and therapists.

An outstanding faculty of more than 70 resident artists and scholars, and more than 65 graduate assistants completing advanced studies, provide instruction and guidance. The faculty is noted for devotion to teaching, excellence in performance, creating innovative and imaginative curricula, the production of creative works, and significant research in many areas of music.

The College of Music enjoys students from all corners of the United States and has significant international representation with students from more than 17 nations. The College of Music has one of the leading music education programs in the nation, and an outstanding ethnomusicology and jazz studies program. The College boasts exceptionally high placement rates in music education and music therapy, and is one of the leading universities in placing graduate students in tenure stream positions.

Michigan State University Honors College Founded in 1956, the goal of the Michigan State University Honors College is to challenge the top undergraduate students at Michigan State University. In order to challenge students of the Honors College, members are allowed to modify the education requirements outlined by the university with courses that allow the individual the ability to purse areas of interest in their major. This privilege is aided by an advising system which makes certain the Honors College student's freedoms are utilized in the best interests of the students educational pursuits. Due to the freedom from the typical constraints imposed on undergraduates, Honors students will often substitute Honors courses to meet a students graduation requirements.

Admission to the Michigan State University Honors College is a very competitive process; as a result only a very small percentage of the student population is a member of the Honors College at any given time. Usually anywhere from 3–5% of the entire student body at Michigan State is a member of the Honors College. A student admitted to the Michigan State University Honors College can be offered admission after initially being admitted to Michigan State University, or after proving exceptional academic abilities during the students freshman year. Furthermore, students of any major offered by the university are eligible for admission to the Honors College.

In order to graduate with a degree from the Michigan State University Honors College a student must take a minimum of eight honors courses during their tenure at Michigan State University. Additionally, in nearly all cases, the student must complete a senior research thesis; which is to be reviewed and accepted by a minimum of at least three members of the schools faculty. The main offices of the Michigan State University Honors College are housed in the Eustace-Cole Hall.

For the purposes of clarification, the Michigan State University Honors College is one of the many colleges that comprises Michigan State University and is not a separate institution.

Athletics hosts varsity American football games and other events.Michigan State's National Collegiate Athletic Association NCAA Division I-A program offers 12 Varsity team sports for men and 13 for women." MSU Facts". Michigan State University Newsroom. 2006–2007. Accessed April 13, 2007. Since their teams are called the Spartans, MSU's mascot is a Spartan warrior named Sparty. The university participates in the Big Ten Conference in all varsity sports except ice hockey, which competes in the Central Collegiate Hockey Association. The current athletic director is Ron Mason, who served as head hockey coach from 1979 to 2002, retiring with a record total of 924 wins, and a 608–261–64 record at MSU." Player Bio: Ron Mason. MSU Spartans.com. Accessed April 13, 2007. MSU's Michigan State University Spartan Marching Band plays the Michigan State University Fight Song at every university event, and both students and alumni sing along. Michigan State is among only sixteen Division 1A programs to win multiple national titles in football, and the first school to win multiple national titles in both football and basketball. MSU has won all of its football championships playing only division 1A opponents and has never played a division 1AA program. The Spartans have participated in two events, in basketball and ice hockey, which have set world records for spectator attendances for both sports.

Football American football has a long tradition at Michigan State. Starting as a club sport in 1884, football gained varsity status in 1896. In the 1950s, MSU led the nation in desegregation, allowing black athletes in all sports. It won the Rose Bowl Game in 1954, 1956, and 1988. In 1967 the Spartans accounted for four of the top eight picks in the NFL draft, the only time a college football program has accomplished such feat.

Today, the football team competes in Spartan Stadium, East Lansing, a renovated 75,025 person football stadium in the center of campus. The current coach is Mark Dantonio, who was hired on November 27, 2006." Michigan State Looks to Cincinnati for Coach". New York Times. November 27, 2006. Accessed April 13, 2007. Dantonio had an 18–17 record in his three year tenure at the University of Cincinnati, including a 1–0 Bowl Game record." Michigan State hires former Cincy coach Dantonio". ESPN.com. November 27, 2006. Accessed April 13, 2007. MSU's traditional archrival is the University of Michigan, against whom they compete for the Paul Bunyan Trophy. MSU is traditionally the underdog, with a 28–66–5 record in the annual game." Michigan State vs. Michigan". College Football Data Warehouse. Accessed April 13, 2007. Michigan State is one of three Big Ten teams to have an annual non-conference football game against University of Notre Dame. MSU's record against the Fighting Irish is 25–44–1." Michigan State vs. Notre Dame". College Football Data Warehouse. Accessed April 13, 2007. Michigan State has won six national championships (3 are disputed depending on which listing organization is referenced) and eight conference championships.



Men's basketball MSU's men's basketball team has won the NCAA Men's Division I Basketball Championship twice: in 1979 and again in 2000." Spartans can relate to Izzo's winning ways". ESPN.com. Accessed May 22, 2007. In 1979, Magic Johnson, along with Greg Kelser, Jay Vincent, and Mike Brkovich, led the MSU team to a 75–64 win against the Larry Bird-led Indiana State University Sycamores. In 2000, three players from Flint, Michigan, Morris Peterson, Charlie Bell (basketball), and Mateen Cleaves led the team to its second national title. Dubbed the "Flintstones", they were the key to the Spartans' win against the University of Florida. On December 13, 2003, Michigan State and University of Kentucky played in the Basketbowl, in which a record crowd of 78,129 watched the game in Detroit’s Ford Field. Kentucky won 79–74." Men's Basketball Falls To No. 8 Kentucky, 79–74". MSU Spartans.com. Accessed April 13, 2007. The team currently plays at the Breslin Student Events Center under head coach Tom Izzo, who has a 255–109 record." Player Bio: Tom Izzo. MSU Spartans.com. Accessed April 13, 2007. The student spirit section is the Izzone. Izzo's coaching has helped the team make four of the last eight NCAA Final Fours, winning the title in 2000.

Men's Ice Hockey was named for former American football coach Clarence L. "Biggie" Munn.The MSU men's ice hockey team started in 1924, though it has only been a varsity sport since 1950. The team has since won national titles in 1966, 1986, and 2007. The Spartans came close to repeating the national title in 1987, but lost the championship game to the University of North Dakota. They play at MSU's Munn Ice Arena. The current head Coach (ice hockey) is Rick Comley, who has a 34–19–3 record at MSU." Player Bio: Rick Comley". MSU Spartans.com. Accessed April 13, 2007. Since the Big Ten Conference does not include Division I men's ice hockey, Michigan State competes in the Central Collegiate Hockey Association. Along with the University of Michigan and the Ohio State University, it is one of three Big Ten schools in the CCHA. As with other sports, the hockey rivalry between MSU and U-M is a fierce one, and on October 6, 2001, MSU faced U-M in the Cold War (ice hockey), during which a world record crowd of 74,554 packed Spartan Stadium, East Lansing to watch the game end in a 3–3 tie." Spartan Hockey Ties Wolverines In Front Of Record Crowd". MSU Spartans.com. October 6, 2001. Accessed April 13, 2007.In the 2006–2007 season, the Men's Ice Hockey team defeated Boston College for its third NCAA hockey championship." Abdelkader's Last-Minute Tally Hands Spartans Third NCAA Title". MSU Spartans.com. April 7, 2007. Accessed April 12, 2007.

Student life on the eastern edge of campus. It is MSU's second tallest building, surpassed by Spartan Stadium (East Lansing)East Lansing, Michigan is very much a college town, with 60.2% of the population between the ages of 15 and 24. East Lansing city, Michigan". U.S. Census. 2000. Accessed April 13, 2007. President John A. Hannah's push to expand in the 1950s and 1960s resulted in the largest residence hall system in the United States.Kiernan, Vincent. " Michigan State Asks Students to Turn Off Their Computers Over Winter Break". The Chronicle of Higher Education. January 2, 2003. Accessed April 13, 2007. 16,000 students live in MSU's 23 Michigan State University Housing, one graduate hall, and three apartment villages. Each residence hall has its own hall government, with representatives in the Residence Halls Association (RHA). Yet despite the size and extent of on-campus housing, 58% of students live off-campus,"Michigan State University: Campus Life". The Princeton Review. 2005. mostly in the "student ghettos" of East Lansing. One of these student-dominated neighborhoods is "Cedar Village". The city since has declared Cedar Village "blight (urban)", and proposed to redevelop the 35 acre (140,000 m²) site as a complex of upscale condominiums and retail stores called East Village. Several fraternities and sororities in the affected area mounted a campaign against the redevelopment plan.Cendrowski, Scott. " FarmHouse and friends fight East Village plan". December 7, 2005. Accessed April 13, 2007.

Greek life With over 3,000 members Michigan State University's fraternity and sorority houses is one of the largest in the nation. Started in the 1870s and re-established in 1922 by Lambda Chi Alpha Fraternity, Alpha Gamma Rho Fraternity, and Alpha Phi Sorority; the MSU Greek system now consists of around fifty Greek lettered student societies. These chapters are in turn under the jurisdiction of one of MSU's four Greek governing councils. Of these four, the North-American Interfraternity Conference (IFC) and the National Panhellenic Conference are each entirely responsible for their own budgets, giving them the freedom to hold large fundraising and recruitment events. MSU's fraternities and sororities hold many philanthropy events and community fundraisers. For example, in March 2006, the Greek system held Greek Week to raise over $170,000 for the American Cancer Society, Ele's Place, the Ronald McDonald House, and the Special Olympics.Spurlock, Amanda. " Cancer relay promotes unity, awareness". March 27, 2006. Accessed April 13, 2007.

Activism Activism have played an important role in MSU history. During the height of the Vietnam War, student protests helped create co-ed residence halls, and blocked the routing of Interstate 496 through campus. In the 1980s, Michigan State students convinced the University to divestment the stocks of companies doing business in apartheid South Africa from its endowment portfolio, such as The Coca-Cola Company. Today, MSU has many student groups focused on political change. The Students' union is the Associated Students of Michigan State University (ASMSU). It is known for its unusual nonpartisan bicameral structure, which includes the parallel Student Assembly and Academic Assembly." Organizational Flow Chart". Associated Students of Michigan State University. Accessed April 13, 2007. Graduate campus groups include the Graduate Employees Union (GEU) and the Council of Graduate Students (COGS). Michigan State also has a variety of Political party groups ranging from liberal to conservatism, including the College Republicans, the College Democrats and several Third party (politics) organizations. Other partisan activist groups include Young Americans for Freedom on the Right-wing politics; Young Democratic Socialists, Students for Economic Justice, and Movimiento Estudiantil Chicano de Aztlan (Movimiento Estudiantil Chicano de Aztlan) on the Social liberalism. Given MSU's proximity to the Michigan state capital of Lansing, Michigan, many politically-inclined Spartans do internships for the state representatives.

Media " (nicknamed "Sparty") replaces Leonard D. Jungwirth's modernist original.Oswald, Tom. " 'Sparty' Unveiled". MSU Today. August 26, 2005. Accessed April 14, 2007.MSU has a variety of campus media outlets. The student-run newspaper, the State News, is the country’s most widely distributed campus newspaper. Free copies of the paper are available online or at East Lansing newsstands. The paper prints 28,500 copies of the paper Monday through Friday during the fall and spring semesters, and 15,000 copies Monday through Friday during the summer." Masthead". The State News Accessed April 13, 2007. The paper is not published on weekends, holidays, or semester breaks. The campus yearbook, the Red Cedar Log, is the largest in the United States. Red Cedar Review, Michigan State University's premier literary digest for over forty years, is the longest running undergraduate-run literary journal in the United States. It is published annually by the Michigan State University Press.

Electronic media include three radio stations and one public television station, as well as MSU Telecasters television shows. MSU's Public Broadcasting Service affiliate, WKAR-TV, the station is the second-oldest educational television station in the United States, and the oldest east of the Mississippi River. Besides broadcasting PBS shows, WKAR-TV produces its own local programming, such as a high school quiz bowl show called QuizBusters. In addition, MSU has three radio stations; WKAR-AM plays National Public Radio's talk radio programming, whereas WKAR-FM focuses mostly on classical music programming." Main Page". WKAR.org. Accessed April 13, 2007. Michigan State's student-run radio station, WDBM, broadcasts mostly alternative music during weekdays, and electric music pr {{infobox University|name= Michigan State University|image= |motto= Advancing Knowledge. Transforming Lives.|endowment= United States dollar1.631 1000000000 (number)http://www.msutoday.msu.edu/04Oct2007-2|president= Dr. Lou Anna Simon, [1855 [Morrill Land-Grant Colleges Act University, Sea grant colleges|calendar = Semester|staff=|faculty= 4,500|students= 45,520|undergrad= 35,821|postgrad= 9,600|colors= Green and White" Official colors of Michigan State University". MSU Web Style Guide. 2005. Accessed April 12, 2007." Official MSU Green (for Web and Print Projects)". MSU A-Z. Accessed April 12, 2007.|city= East Lansing, Michigan|mascot= [Sparty |website= msu.edu|logo= -->Michigan State University (MSU) is a co-educational [public university research university in East Lansing, Michigan, Michigan United States. Founded in 1855, it was the pioneer land-grant institution and served as a model for future land-grant colleges in the United States under the 1862 Morrill Land-Grant Colleges Act. MSU pioneered the studies of packaging, Hospitality management studies, and music therapy. Today its study abroad program is the largest of any single-campus university in the country, offering more than 200 programs in more than 60 countries on all continents including Antarctica.

Following the introduction of the Morrill Act, the college became coeducational and expanded its curriculum beyond agriculture. After World War II, the number of students tripled as the institution became a major university. Today, MSU is the List of largest United States universities by enrollment in the United States, with 45,520 students and 4,500 Faculty (university) members.

MSU's NCAA Division I sports teams are called the Michigan State Spartans. They compete in the Big Ten Conference in all sports except ice hockey, in which the team is part of the Central Collegiate Hockey Association. MSU's American football team won the Rose Bowl Game in 1954, 1956, and 1988 and boasts six national championships. Its men's basketball team won the NCAA Men's Division I Basketball Championship in 1979 and 2000. The MSU men's ice hockey has won NCAA Men's Ice Hockey Championship in 1966, 1986, and 2007.

History Agriculture school marks the site of the old College Hall.The Michigan Constitution of 1850 called for the creation of an "agricultural school"," Michigan Constitution of 1850". Michigan Legislature. Article 13, Section 11. Accessed April 12, 2007. though it was not until February 12, 1855 that Michigan List of Governors of Michigan Kinsley S. Bingham signed a bill establishing the United States' first agriculture college, the Agricultural College of the State of Michigan.Widder, Keith. " Origins of MSU". MSU Sesquicentennial Celebration. January 16, 2004. Accessed April 12, 2007. Classes began in May 1857 with three buildings, five faculty members, and 63 male students. The first president, Joseph R. Williams, designed a curriculum that required more scientific study than practically any undergraduate institution of the era. It balanced science, liberal arts, and practical training. The curriculum excluded Latin language and Greek language studies, since most applicants did not study any classical languages in their rural high schools. However, it did require three hours of daily manual labour, which kept costs down for both the students and the College. Despite Williams' innovations and his defense of education for the masses, the State Board of Education saw Williams' curriculum as elitism. They forced him to resign in 1859 and reduced the curriculum to a two-year vocational program.

Land Grant pioneer In 1860, Joseph Williams became acting lieutenant governor" Joseph R. Williams Biographical Information". MSU University Archives and Historical Collection Accessed April 12, 2007. and helped pass the Reorganization Act of 1861. This gave the College a four-year curriculum and the power to grant master's degrees. Under the act, a newly-created body, known as the State Board of Agriculture, took over from the State Board of Education in running the institution." Milestones of MSU's Sesquicentennial". MSU University Archives and Historical Collection Accessed April 12, 2007. The College changed its name to State Agricultural College, and its first class graduated in the same year. However, there was no time for an elaborate graduation ceremony: the American Civil War had just begun, and the first alumni were drafted into the war effort. The following year, Abraham Lincoln signed the First Morrill Act of 1862 to support similar colleges, making the Michigan school a national model. Williams never witnessed the cause to which he had dedicated so much of his life, having taken ill and died the previous year.

Co-ed college The college first admitted women in 1870, although at that time there were no female residence halls. The few women who enrolled either boarded with faculty families or made the arduous stagecoach trek from Lansing, Michigan. Nonetheless, even from the early days female students took the same rigorous scientific agriculture courses as male students. In 1896, the faculty created a "Women Course" that melded a Family and consumer science curriculum with liberal arts and sciences. That same year, the College turned the old Abbot Hall male dorm into a women's dormitory and more firmly established itself as co-ed. However, it was not until 1899 that the State Agricultural College admitted its first African American student, William O. Thompson. He went on to teach at what is now Tuskegee University under the wing of Booker T. Washington, whom President Jonathan L. Snyder invited to be the Class of 1900 commencement speaker. A few years later, Myrtle Craig became the first female African American student to enroll at the College. Along with the Class of 1907, she received her degree from U.S. President Theodore Roosevelt, commencement speaker for the Semi-Centennial celebration. The City of East Lansing was incorporated in that same year, and two years later the college officially changed its name to Michigan Agricultural College (M.A.C.).

, sculpted by California artist Bruce Wolfe.Anderson, Kristin K. " Ceremony pays tribute to 'pragmatic visionary'". MSU Today. September 17, 2004. Accessed April 12, 2007.

Big Ten university During the early 20th century, M.A.C. expanded its curriculum well beyond agriculture. By 1925, it had expanded enough that it changed its name to Michigan State College of Agriculture and Applied Science (M.S.C.). In 1941, the Secretary of the State Board of Agriculture, John A. Hannah, became president of the College. He began the largest expansion in the institution's history, with the help of the 1945 G. I. Bill of Rights, which helped World War II veterans to receive an education. One of Hannah's strategies was to build a new dormitory building, enroll enough students to fill it, and use the income to start construction on a new dormitory. Under his plan, enrollment increased from 15,000 in 1950 to 38,000 in 1965. Hannah also got the chance to improve the athletic reputation of M.S.C. when the University of Chicago resigned from the Big Ten Conference in 1946. Hannah lobbied hard to take its place, gaining admission in 1950. Five years later, in its Centennial year of 1955, the State of Michigan renamed the College as Michigan State University of Agriculture and Applied Science. Nine years after that, the University governing body changed its name from the State Board of Agriculture to the MSU Board of Trustees. The State of Michigan allowed the University to drop the words "Agriculture and Applied Science" from its name. Since 1964, the institution has gone by the name of Michigan State University.

Global leader by 2012 Since the end of the Hannah era, Michigan State has shifted its focus from increasing the size of its student body to advancing its national and global reputation. In September 2005, current president Lou Anna Simon called for MSU, one of the Public Ivy, to become the global model leader for Land Grant institutions by the year 2012. Her plans include creating a new residential college and increasing National Institutes of Health donations past the United States dollar100 million mark. While there are over 100 Land-grant universities in the United States, she has stated that she would like Michigan State University to be the leader.Darrow, Bob. Simon: MSU to be model university. The State News. September 9, 2005. Accessed April 12, 2007.

Campus MSU's sprawling campus is located in East Lansing, Michigan. The campus is perched on the banks of the Red Cedar River (Michigan). Development of the campus started in 1856 with three buildings: a multipurpose building called College Hall, a dormitory later called "Saints' Rest", Saints Rest Aprin, 18, 2007 and a barn. Today, MSU's contiguous campus consists of 5,200 acres (21 km²), 2,000 acres (8 km²) of which are developed. There are currently 676 buildings: 203 for academics, 154 for agriculture, 245 for housing and food service, as well as 74 other buildings. Overall, the University has 21,931,085 square foot (2,037,464.5 square metre) of total indoor space." Building Data Summary". MSU Physical Plant. 2004. Accessed April 12, 2007. Connecting it all is 27 miles (43 kilometer) of roads and 100 miles (161 km) of sidewalks.Miller, Matthew. "MSU a 'city' unto itself]". Lansing State Journal. August 20, 2006. MSU also owns 44 non-campus properties, totaling 22,000 acres (89 km²) in 28 different counties." About LMO". MSU Land Management Office. August 29, 2005. Accessed April 12, 2007. North campus The oldest part of campus lies on the north bank of the Red Cedar. It includes Collegiate Gothic architecture, plentiful trees, and curving roads with few straight lines. It was in this area that the College built its first three buildings, of which none survive. Other historic buildings north of the river include Cowles House, the president's official residence, and Beaumont Tower, a carillon clock tower marking the site of College Hall, the original classroom building. To the east lies Eustace-Cole Hall, America's first freestanding laboratory for horticulture. Other landmarks include the bronze statue of former president John A. Hannah,Roeschke, Jaclyn. " Former 'U' president immortalized with bronze statue". State News. September 20, 2004. Accessed April 12, 2007. the W. J. Beal Botanical Garden, and the painted boulder known as "The Rock (Michigan State University)", which is a popular spot for theatre, tailgate party, and candlelight vigils. On the northwest corner of campus lies the University's hotel, the Kellogg Hotel and Conference Center.

South campus hosts many productions throughout the year and was host to the final US Presidential Debate before the 1992 election.The campus south of the river consists mostly of post-World War II International Style (architecture) buildings with sparse foliage, relatively straight roadways, and numerous parking lots. The "2020 Vision" Master Plan proposes replacing these parking lots with multi-storey car park and green space," 2020 Vision Campus Master Plan". MSU Campus Planning and Administration. 2006. Accessed April 12, 2007. but these plans will take many years to reach fruition. As part of the master plan, the University erected a new bronze statue of "Sparty" in 2005. This replica replaced the original modernist terra cotta statue, which can still be seen horded inside Spartan Stadium, East Lansing. Notable academic and research buildings on the South Campus include the National Superconducting Cyclotron Laboratory and the Michigan State University College of Law. This part of campus is home to the Michigan State University Horticulture Gardens and the adjoining 4-H Children's Garden. South of the gardens lie the Canadian National and CSX Transportation railroads, which divide the main campus from thousands of acres of university-owned farmland.

Academics is located on the oldest part of campus between Beaumont Tower and the river.MSU has the List of largest US universities by enrollment student body in the U.S. There are 45,520 total students, with 35,821 undergraduates and 9,699 graduate school students. The student body is 55% female and 45% male. While 89% of students come from all 83 counties in the State of Michigan,"Michigan State University: Student Body". The Princeton Review. 2005. also represented are all 50 states in the U.S. and about 125 other countries." MSU Facts". Michigan State University Newsroom. 2006–2007. Accessed April 12, 2007. MSU has about 4,500 faculty and 6,000 staff members, and a student/faculty ratio of 19:1. Listed as a Public Ivy, Michigan State is a member of the Association of American Universities. Like other large American universities, MSU has a large number of teaching assistants teaching upper-level courses in certain disciplines. Michigan State University Ombudsman is the longest continually operating ombudsman office at a college or university in the country. Accessed: Oct,10,2007. Adjunct physics professor at MSU wins Nobel Prize

Rankings Michigan State ranks 75th in the world, according to a Shanghai Jiao Tong University study," Top 500 World Universities". Institute of Higher Education, Shanghai Jiao Tong University. August 15, 2006. Accessed April 12, 2007. with U.S. News & World Report's ranking MSU 70th in the U.S." America's Best Colleges 2007". U.S. News and World Report. Accessed April 12, 2007. The university has over 200 academic programs, several of them highly-ranked. U.S. News has ranked MSU's graduate-level elementary education"," America's Best Graduate Schools 2006: Elementary Education." U.S. News and World Report. Accessed April 12, 2007. secondary education," America's Best Graduate Schools 2006: Secondary Education." U.S. News and World Report. Accessed April 12, 2007. and Industrial and Organizational Psychology" America's Best Graduate Schools 2006: Psychology Specialties: Industrial/Organizational Psychology." U.S. News and World Report. Accessed April 12, 2007. programs number one for the last decade. In U.S. News also ranks MSU's nuclear physics program second, behind only Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Indeed, MSU’s Physics & Astronomy department ranks highly based on the number and impact of publications its faculty publishes. In addition to this, the 2008 U.S. News ranks Michigan State's Supply Chain Management program in the Eli Broad College of Business number one in the nation for the second year in a row.http://colleges.usnews.rankingsandreviews.com/usnews/edu/college/rankings/brief/bizspec10_brief.php The National Communication Association ranks MSU doctoral programs as the nation’s most effective in educating researchers in health communication and communication technology.Hollihan, Tom. " 2004 Study of the Reputational Programs in Communication. National Communications Association. Accessed April 12, 2007. Michigan State University College of Osteopathic Medicine has routinely ranked in the top five nationally for primary care according to U.S. News. MSU also is ranked in the top four in several other communication fields, including international/intercultural communication, mass communication and interpersonal communication. Other programs of note include criminal justice,Rykert, Wilbur Lewis. "The History of the School of Criminal Justice at Michigan State University 1935–1963" (Masters Thesis). 1985. music therapy," About Us: Fast Facts. MSU College of Music. Accessed April 12, 2007. Hospitality management studies," Historic Milestones" The School of Hospitality Business. Accessed April 12, 2007. packaging," History". MSU School of Packaging. Accessed April 12, 2007. political science," Achievements". MSU Department of Political Science. Accessed April 12, 2007. journalism CAS > Tour > Highlights and communications." CAS > Tour > Highlights.". MSU College of Communications Arts and Sciences. Accessed April 12, 2007. MSU's study abroad program is the largest of any single-campus university in the United States with 2,461 students studying abroad in 2004–2005 in over 60 countries on all continents, including Antarctica." Studies in Antarctic System Science—Antarctica". MSU Office of Study Abroad. Accessed April 12, 2007.

Research The university spent nearly United States dollar380,000,000 million in 2005-06 on research ," The MSU news room". The Center. 2006. Accessed August 29, 2007. capping a long history of productive research. In 1877, botany professor William J. Beal performed the first documented genetic crosses to produce hybrid maize, which led to increased yields. MSU dairy professor G. Malcolm Trout invented the process for the homogenization of milk in the 1930s. In the 1960s, MSU scientists developed cisplatin, a leading cancer fighting drug. Today Michigan State continues its research with facilities such as the United States Department of Energy-sponsored MSU-DOE Plant Research Laboratory and a particle accelerator called the National Superconducting Cyclotron Laboratory. In 2004, scientists at the Cyclotron produced and observed a new isotope of the element germanium, called Ge-60." New germanium isotope discovered at MSU". MSU Today. July 29, 2004. Accessed April 12, 2007. In that same year, Michigan State, in consortium with the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and the government of Brazil, broke ground on the 4.1-meter SOAR Telescope (SOAR) in the Andes Mountains of Chile. The consortium telescope will allow the Physics & Astronomy department to study galaxy formation and origins." Points of Pride". MSU Today. Accessed April 12, 2007. Since 1999, MSU has been part of another consortium called the Michigan Life Sciences Corridor, which aims to develop biotechnology research in the State of Michigan.Truscott, John. " Governor Signs Bill Creating 'Life Sciences Corridor' in Michigan". Michigan Executive Office press release. July 19, 1999. Accessed April 12, 2007. Finally, the College of Communication Arts and Sciences' Quello Center for Telecommunication Management and Law researches current issues of information and communication management.Michigan State University has the largest African studies faculty in the nation, producing more Ph.D. dissertations and conducting more development work in Africa than any other university. http://africa.msu.edu/ MSU African studies Center 8/29/07 . The faculty of the MSU African Studies Center, which has the third largest U.S. library on Africa, and conducts a range of research and development work in Africa. http://newsroom.msu.edu/site/indexer/2784/content.htm Michigan State University Newsroom 8/29/07

Endowment MSU's (private, non-Morrill Act) financial endowment started in 1916 when the Engineering Building burned down. Automobile magnate R.E. Olds helped the program stay afloat with a gift of $100,000. While this opened the door for other types of private donations, MSU has often lagged behind peer institutions in terms of endowments. As recently as the early 1990s, MSU was last among the eleven Big Ten schools, with barely over $100 million in endowment funds. However, in the early 2000s, the University started a campaign to increase the size of the endowment. At the close of FY 2004–2005, the endowment had risen to $1.325 billion, raising the University to sixth of the 11 Big Ten schools in terms of endowment; within $2 million of the fifth-rated school.Seguin, Rick. " Endowment surges in growth, rankings". MSU News Bulletin. 2006. Accessed April 12, 2007. The rapid increase in the size of the endowment will help to improve outdated facilities, such as the Music Building, which the College of Music hopes to soon replace with money from its alumni fundraising program." Capital Campaign". MSU School of Music. Accessed April 12, 2007.

Colleges Residential colleges MSU has several residential colleges, based on the Oxbridge "living-learning" model. By putting classes in student dormitories, these colleges improve student access to faculty and facilities. MSU's first residential college, Justin Morrill College started in 1965 with an interdisciplinary curriculum." Unofficial website". Justin Morrill College]. Accessed April 13, 2007. MSU closed Morrill College in 1979, but today the university has three residential colleges, including the recent opening of the Residential College in Arts and Humanities located in Snyder and Phillips halls.

Started in 1967, James Madison College tries to merge the best attributes of a small Public administration college and a major university. Classes in the college are small, with an average of 25 students, and most instructors are tenure track Faculty (university). James Madison College has about 1150 students total, with each freshman class containing about 320 students. "Quick Madison Facts". James Madison College @ Michigan State University. Accessed June 25, 2007 Each of Madison's four Academic major—Social Relations and Policy, International Relations, Political Theory and Constitutional Democracy, and Comparative Cultures and Politics "You and JMC". James Madison College @ Michigan State University. Accessed June 25, 2007—requires two years of foreign language and one year of "field experience” in an internship or study abroad program. Although Madison students make up about 4% of MSU graduates, they represent around 35% of the MSU’s Phi Beta Kappa Society members." Quick Madison Facts". James Madison College @ Michigan State University. Accessed April 12, 2007.



The Lyman Briggs College teaches math and science within social, historical and philosophical contexts." Educational Philosophy @ Lyman Briggs School". Lyman Briggs School of Science. Accessed April 13, 2007. Founded in 1967 as Lyman Briggs College, it was merged into the College of Natural Science in 1981, and was then known as Lyman Briggs School of Science." Growth and Expansion of Lyman Briggs School". Lyman Briggs School of Science. Accessed April 13, 2007. On June 15th, 2007, Lyman Briggs regained college status, making it once again Lyman Briggs College.Orlando, Jennifer. " Name change". State News. June 18, 2007. Accessed June 21, 2007. Many Lyman Briggs students intend to pursue careers in medicine, but the school supports over 30 coordinate majors, from human biology to computer sciences." Major Information @ Lyman Briggs School". Lyman Briggs School of Science. Accessed April 13, 2007. Lyman Briggs is one of the few colleges that lets undergraduates teach as "Learning Assistants."" Growth and Expansion of Lyman Briggs School" Lyman Briggs School of Science. p. 13. Accessed April 13, 2007.

In 2007, MSU will accept its first class of students for the Residential College in Arts & Humanities. Founded October 21, 2005,Collins, Laura. " Trustees approve residential college". State News. October 24, 2005. Accessed April 13, 2007. the college will provide around 600 undergraduates with an individualized curriculum in the liberal arts, visual arts and performing arts. Though all the students will graduate with the same academic degree, MSU will encourage students in the college to get a Double degree or specialization." Flexible Program". Michigan State University Residential College in Arts & Humanities. Accessed April 13, 2007. The university will house the new college in a newly-renovated Snyder-Phillips Hall, the location of MSU's first residential college, Justin Morrill College." RCAH Life". Michigan State University Residential College in Arts & Humanities. Accessed April 13, 2007.

Professional schools The Michigan State University College of Law is a private university law school, even though MSU is a public university institution. Founded in Detroit in 1891 as the Detroit College of Law, MSU bought the school in 1995, and moved it to East Lansing. Students attending MSU College of Law come from 42 states and 13 countries. The law school publishes the Michigan State Law Review" Main Page". Michigan State Law Review. Accessed April 13, 2007. and the Journal of Business and Securities law, one of the only nationally published student-run law journals dedicated to the leading issues confronting attorneys in the worlds of business/corporation law and securities law. Michigan State University College of Law is the home of the Geoffrey Fieger Trial Practice Institute," The Geoffrey Fieger Trial Practice Institute". Michigan State University College of Law. Accessed April 13, 2007. the first trial practice institute in the United States. The Intellectual Property and Communications Law program is ranked seventeenth nationally.White, Russ. " Press Release". Michigan State University Newsroom. April 4, 2006. Accessed April 13, 2007.

The Eli Broad College of Business has programs in accounting, information systems, finance, management, marketing and supply chain management, and The School of Hospitality Business. The school has 4,775 undergraduate students and 776 graduate students. The Eli Broad Graduate School of Management, which Business Week magazine ranks 11th among public institutions, offers 3 MBA programs, as well as double major with the Michigan State University College of Law.The Eli Broad College of Business and Eli Broad Graduate School of Management. Graduate Programs.

The Michigan State University College of Veterinary Medicine is one of three medical schools on campus. Michigan State University College of Veterinary Medicine. Education. The Michigan State University College of Human Medicine graduates students with medical doctor MD degrees and is split into six distinct campuses located in Lansing, Kalamazoo, Flint, Saginaw, Marquette and Grand Rapids. The College of Human Medicine has recently gained attention for its expansion into the Grand Rapids area, where a new campus is being built that is expected to fuel the growing medical industry in that region. http://www.nytimes.com/2007/07/11/realestate/commercial/11hill.html?ex=1187496000&en=07ec444174548dce&ei=50700. There is also a College of Osteopathic Medicine.

The [Michigan State University College of Music is known throughout the United States and in many parts of the world as a leading professional training ground for composers, conductors, performers, and music educators, historians, theorists, and therapists.

An outstanding faculty of more than 70 resident artists and scholars, and more than 65 graduate assistants completing advanced studies, provide instruction and guidance. The faculty is noted for devotion to teaching, excellence in performance, creating innovative and imaginative curricula, the production of creative works, and significant research in many areas of music.

The College of Music enjoys students from all corners of the United States and has significant international representation with students from more than 17 nations. The College of Music has one of the leading music education programs in the nation, and an outstanding ethnomusicology and jazz studies program. The College boasts exceptionally high placement rates in music education and music therapy, and is one of the leading universities in placing graduate students in tenure stream positions.

Michigan State University Honors College Founded in 1956, the goal of the Michigan State University Honors College is to challenge the top undergraduate students at Michigan State University. In order to challenge students of the Honors College, members are allowed to modify the education requirements outlined by the university with courses that allow the individual the ability to purse areas of interest in their major. This privilege is aided by an advising system which makes certain the Honors College student's freedoms are utilized in the best interests of the students educational pursuits. Due to the freedom from the typical constraints imposed on undergraduates, Honors students will often substitute Honors courses to meet a students graduation requirements.

Admission to the Michigan State University Honors College is a very competitive process; as a result only a very small percentage of the student population is a member of the Honors College at any given time. Usually anywhere from 3–5% of the entire student body at Michigan State is a member of the Honors College. A student admitted to the Michigan State University Honors College can be offered admission after initially being admitted to Michigan State University, or after proving exceptional academic abilities during the students freshman year. Furthermore, students of any major offered by the university are eligible for admission to the Honors College.

In order to graduate with a degree from the Michigan State University Honors College a student must take a minimum of eight honors courses during their tenure at Michigan State University. Additionally, in nearly all cases, the student must complete a senior research thesis; which is to be reviewed and accepted by a minimum of at least three members of the schools faculty. The main offices of the Michigan State University Honors College are housed in the Eustace-Cole Hall.

For the purposes of clarification, the Michigan State University Honors College is one of the many colleges that comprises Michigan State University and is not a separate institution.

Athletics hosts varsity American football games and other events.Michigan State's National Collegiate Athletic Association NCAA Division I-A program offers 12 Varsity team sports for men and 13 for women." MSU Facts". Michigan State University Newsroom. 2006–2007. Accessed April 13, 2007. Since their teams are called the Spartans, MSU's mascot is a Spartan warrior named Sparty. The university participates in the Big Ten Conference in all varsity sports except ice hockey, which competes in the Central Collegiate Hockey Association. The current athletic director is Ron Mason, who served as head hockey coach from 1979 to 2002, retiring with a record total of 924 wins, and a 608–261–64 record at MSU." Player Bio: Ron Mason. MSU Spartans.com. Accessed April 13, 2007. MSU's Michigan State University Spartan Marching Band plays the Michigan State University Fight Song at every university event, and both students and alumni sing along. Michigan State is among only sixteen Division 1A programs to win multiple national titles in football, and the first school to win multiple national titles in both football and basketball. MSU has won all of its football championships playing only division 1A opponents and has never played a division 1AA program. The Spartans have participated in two events, in basketball and ice hockey, which have set world records for spectator attendances for both sports.

Football American football has a long tradition at Michigan State. Starting as a club sport in 1884, football gained varsity status in 1896. In the 1950s, MSU led the nation in desegregation, allowing black athletes in all sports. It won the Rose Bowl Game in 1954, 1956, and 1988. In 1967 the Spartans accounted for four of the top eight picks in the NFL draft, the only time a college football program has accomplished such feat.

Today, the football team competes in Spartan Stadium, East Lansing, a renovated 75,025 person football stadium in the center of campus. The current coach is Mark Dantonio, who was hired on November 27, 2006." Michigan State Looks to Cincinnati for Coach". New York Times. November 27, 2006. Accessed April 13, 2007. Dantonio had an 18–17 record in his three year tenure at the University of Cincinnati, including a 1–0 Bowl Game record." Michigan State hires former Cincy coach Dantonio". ESPN.com. November 27, 2006. Accessed April 13, 2007. MSU's traditional archrival is the University of Michigan, against whom they compete for the Paul Bunyan Trophy. MSU is traditionally the underdog, with a 28–66–5 record in the annual game." Michigan State vs. Michigan". College Football Data Warehouse. Accessed April 13, 2007. Michigan State is one of three Big Ten teams to have an annual non-conference football game against University of Notre Dame. MSU's record against the Fighting Irish is 25–44–1." Michigan State vs. Notre Dame". College Football Data Warehouse. Accessed April 13, 2007. Michigan State has won six national championships (3 are disputed depending on which listing organization is referenced) and eight conference championships.



Men's basketball MSU's men's basketball team has won the NCAA Men's Division I Basketball Championship twice: in 1979 and again in 2000." Spartans can relate to Izzo's winning ways". ESPN.com. Accessed May 22, 2007. In 1979, Magic Johnson, along with Greg Kelser, Jay Vincent, and Mike Brkovich, led the MSU team to a 75–64 win against the Larry Bird-led Indiana State University Sycamores. In 2000, three players from Flint, Michigan, Morris Peterson, Charlie Bell (basketball), and Mateen Cleaves led the team to its second national title. Dubbed the "Flintstones", they were the key to the Spartans' win against the University of Florida. On December 13, 2003, Michigan State and University of Kentucky played in the Basketbowl, in which a record crowd of 78,129 watched the game in Detroit’s Ford Field. Kentucky won 79–74." Men's Basketball Falls To No. 8 Kentucky, 79–74". MSU Spartans.com. Accessed April 13, 2007. The team currently plays at the Breslin Student Events Center under head coach Tom Izzo, who has a 255–109 record." Player Bio: Tom Izzo. MSU Spartans.com. Accessed April 13, 2007. The student spirit section is the Izzone. Izzo's coaching has helped the team make four of the last eight NCAA Final Fours, winning the title in 2000.

Men's Ice Hockey was named for former American football coach Clarence L. "Biggie" Munn.The MSU men's ice hockey team started in 1924, though it has only been a varsity sport since 1950. The team has since won national titles in 1966, 1986, and 2007. The Spartans came close to repeating the national title in 1987, but lost the championship game to the University of North Dakota. They play at MSU's Munn Ice Arena. The current head Coach (ice hockey) is Rick Comley, who has a 34–19–3 record at MSU." Player Bio: Rick Comley". MSU Spartans.com. Accessed April 13, 2007. Since the Big Ten Conference does not include Division I men's ice hockey, Michigan State competes in the Central Collegiate Hockey Association. Along with the University of Michigan and the Ohio State University, it is one of three Big Ten schools in the CCHA. As with other sports, the hockey rivalry between MSU and U-M is a fierce one, and on October 6, 2001, MSU faced U-M in the Cold War (ice hockey), during which a world record crowd of 74,554 packed Spartan Stadium, East Lansing to watch the game end in a 3–3 tie." Spartan Hockey Ties Wolverines In Front Of Record Crowd". MSU Spartans.com. October 6, 2001. Accessed April 13, 2007.In the 2006–2007 season, the Men's Ice Hockey team defeated Boston College for its third NCAA hockey championship." Abdelkader's Last-Minute Tally Hands Spartans Third NCAA Title". MSU Spartans.com. April 7, 2007. Accessed April 12, 2007.

Student life on the eastern edge of campus. It is MSU's second tallest building, surpassed by Spartan Stadium (East Lansing)East Lansing, Michigan is very much a college town, with 60.2% of the population between the ages of 15 and 24. East Lansing city, Michigan". U.S. Census. 2000. Accessed April 13, 2007. President John A. Hannah's push to expand in the 1950s and 1960s resulted in the largest residence hall system in the United States.Kiernan, Vincent. " Michigan State Asks Students to Turn Off Their Computers Over Winter Break". The Chronicle of Higher Education. January 2, 2003. Accessed April 13, 2007. 16,000 students live in MSU's 23 Michigan State University Housing, one graduate hall, and three apartment villages. Each residence hall has its own hall government, with representatives in the Residence Halls Association (RHA). Yet despite the size and extent of on-campus housing, 58% of students live off-campus,"Michigan State University: Campus Life". The Princeton Review. 2005. mostly in the "student ghettos" of East Lansing. One of these student-dominated neighborhoods is "Cedar Village". The city since has declared Cedar Village "blight (urban)", and proposed to redevelop the 35 acre (140,000 m²) site as a complex of upscale condominiums and retail stores called East Village. Several fraternities and sororities in the affected area mounted a campaign against the redevelopment plan.Cendrowski, Scott. " FarmHouse and friends fight East Village plan". December 7, 2005. Accessed April 13, 2007.

Greek life With over 3,000 members Michigan State University's fraternity and sorority houses is one of the largest in the nation. Started in the 1870s and re-established in 1922 by Lambda Chi Alpha Fraternity, Alpha Gamma Rho Fraternity, and Alpha Phi Sorority; the MSU Greek system now consists of around fifty Greek lettered student societies. These chapters are in turn under the jurisdiction of one of MSU's four Greek governing councils. Of these four, the North-American Interfraternity Conference (IFC) and the National Panhellenic Conference are each entirely responsible for their own budgets, giving them the freedom to hold large fundraising and recruitment events. MSU's fraternities and sororities hold many philanthropy events and community fundraisers. For example, in March 2006, the Greek system held Greek Week to raise over $170,000 for the American Cancer Society, Ele's Place, the Ronald McDonald House, and the Special Olympics.Spurlock, Amanda. " Cancer relay promotes unity, awareness". March 27, 2006. Accessed April 13, 2007.

Activism Activism have played an important role in MSU history. During the height of the Vietnam War, student protests helped create co-ed residence halls, and blocked the routing of Interstate 496 through campus. In the 1980s, Michigan State students convinced the University to divestment the stocks of companies doing business in apartheid South Africa from its endowment portfolio, such as The Coca-Cola Company. Today, MSU has many student groups focused on political change. The Students' union is the Associated Students of Michigan State University (ASMSU). It is known for its unusual nonpartisan bicameral structure, which includes the parallel Student Assembly and Academic Assembly." Organizational Flow Chart". Associated Students of Michigan State University. Accessed April 13, 2007. Graduate campus groups include the Graduate Employees Union (GEU) and the Council of Graduate Students (COGS). Michigan State also has a variety of Political party groups ranging from liberal to conservatism, including the College Republicans, the College Democrats and several Third party (politics) organizations. Other partisan activist groups include Young Americans for Freedom on the Right-wing politics; Young Democratic Socialists, Students for Economic Justice, and Movimiento Estudiantil Chicano de Aztlan (Movimiento Estudiantil Chicano de Aztlan) on the Social liberalism. Given MSU's proximity to the Michigan state capital of Lansing, Michigan, many politically-inclined Spartans do internships for the state representatives.

Media " (nicknamed "Sparty") replaces Leonard D. Jungwirth's modernist original.Oswald, Tom. " 'Sparty' Unveiled". MSU Today. August 26, 2005. Accessed April 14, 2007.MSU has a variety of campus media outlets. The student-run newspaper, the State News, is the country’s most widely distributed campus newspaper. Free copies of the paper are available online or at East Lansing newsstands. The paper prints 28,500 copies of the paper Monday through Friday during the fall and spring semesters, and 15,000 copies Monday through Friday during the summer." Masthead". The State News Accessed April 13, 2007. The paper is not published on weekends, holidays, or semester breaks. The campus yearbook, the Red Cedar Log, is the largest in the United States. Red Cedar Review, Michigan State University's premier literary digest for over forty years, is the longest running undergraduate-run literary journal in the United States. It is published annually by the Michigan State University Press.

Electronic media include three radio stations and one public television station, as well as MSU Telecasters television shows. MSU's Public Broadcasting Service affiliate, WKAR-TV, the station is the second-oldest educational television station in the United States, and the oldest east of the Mississippi River. Besides broadcasting PBS shows, WKAR-TV produces its own local programming, such as a high school quiz bowl show called QuizBusters. In addition, MSU has three radio stations; WKAR-AM plays National Public Radio's talk radio programming, whereas WKAR-FM focuses mostly on classical music programming." Main Page". WKAR.org. Accessed April 13, 2007. Michigan State's student-run radio station, WDBM, broadcasts mostly alternative music during weekdays, and electric music pr

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