Michigan State University President Kevin Guskiewicz has announced that the university will reduce its general fund budget by 9% over the next two years, citing financial pressures that will ...

Michigan State Athletic Director J Batt, right, speaks, Wednesday, June 4, 2025, after being introduced by MSU President Kevin Guskiewicz.© Matthew Dae Smith/Lansing State Journal ...

Michigan State University President Kevin Guskiewicz welcomes new Athletic Director J Batt, Wednesday, June 4, 2025. / Matthew Dae Smith/Lansing State Journal / USA TODAY NETWORK via Imagn Images ...

It’s painful that there will be some positions eliminated as a result of this budget reduction process,” MSU President Kevin Guskiewicz.

EAST LANSING ― Michigan State University won't be able to make the cuts needed for financial stability without layofffs, President Kevin Guskiewicz said in a June 30 email to faculty and staff.

Michigan State president Kevin M. Guskiewicz addressed the media and the Spartan community to open new Michigan State athletic director J Batt's introductory press conference on Wednesday.

Batt was introduced as the Spartans ’ 21st athletic director on Wednesday as the school’s first outside hire to the position in 30 years. And the 43-year-old —an MSU outsider like Guskiewicz — made ...

Michigan State Athletic Director J Batt, right, speaks, Wednesday, June 4, 2025, after being introduced by MSU President Kevin Guskiewicz.

At the top of the list was J Batt, the athletic director at Georgia Tech (also located in Atlanta). It not only happened to be a name Guskiewicz was familiar with, but a person he’d known for a ...