The Michigan State University Board of Trustees wanted to be sure they were not part of the sexual harassment investigation involving football coach Mel Tucker that could be seen as interference, the board chair said Sunday.
Rema Vassar said what many MSU officials have said in recent days: they knew few details about the investigation into Tucker, or the identity of the accuser until the media broke the story last week outlining the case in detail. Vassar said the investigation and any decision about personnel is within the purview of the MSU administration, not the board.
The MSU Faculty Senate gave the board a vote of no confidence when it started to ask questions in 2022 about the university's Title IX policies linked to the controversial resignation of Sanjay Gupta, the former business school dean who was forced to step down for failing to report a Title IX violation he believed had already been reported.