MSU President Turns Down $150,000 Raise Amid Nassar Uproar

December 15, 2017, 12:25 PM

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MSU President Lou Anna Simon

Just to make it clear, Michigan State University President Lou Anna K. Simon will still live a quite comfortable life.

On Friday, she declined a $150,000 pay raise amid controversy over how the university handled sexual assault complaints against Larry Nassar, the former MSU and Olympic doctor who has pleaded guilty to sexually assaulting female patients and possessing child porn, Michael Gerstein of The Detroit News reports. 

Instead, Simon and MSU trustees agreed to transfer the $150,000 to a university scholarship fund and also to establish a $10 million fund for mental health services for sexual assault survivors.

She earned $860,198 in 2015. Since becoming president in 2005, Simon has often declined a raise, according to Joel Ferguson, a trustee on the compensation committee.

Nassar was sentenced last week to 60 years in prison for possessing child pornography. Sentencing for sexual assault is next.

Demonstrators stood silently in the meeting to protest how MSU has dealt with complaints from sexual assault survivors.


Read more:  The Detroit News


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