evt_2026_0016
The Department of Education announced a fine and corrective action for Michigan State University following Title IX investigations.
OCR's What's New page states that the Department announced a record fine and required corrective action for Michigan State University following investigations into systemic failure to protect students from sexual abuse.
Public response note
The record summarizes OCR's public announcement and does not independently evaluate the institution's completed response.
- Response depth
- Limited public response note
- Response date
- 2019-01-01
- Legal status
- Federal fine and corrective action announced
- School
- Michigan State University
- Date
- 2019-01-01
- Location
- East Lansing, MI
- Category
- Title IX compliance
- Communities
- Women
- Verification
- Verified from public source
- Confidence
- Medium
- Review tier
- Imported public source
- Review tier limit
- This record was imported from a public source and passed baseline publication gates. Source-family checks or human source-to-record certification may still be incomplete.
- Verification rationale
- Verified from public source; 1 public source linked (Government release). Confidence reflects source support, not severity.
- Last updated
- 2026-06-03
- Record hash
- sha256:032b5e9deafc03bf7ae433f3ef0aaac91aa111afdfc693c73aacf99345efec0c
Record Audit
Source basis and classification review
- Source basis
- 1 linked public source: Government release.
- Classification rationale
- Category "Title IX compliance" is retained as a documentation label from linked public source metadata; Campus Evidence Lab does not treat it as an independent legal finding.
- Community rationale
- Affected community label (Women) reflect public-source metadata and require source-text review before narrower claims.
- Confidence rationale
- Medium confidence reflects verified from public source with 1 linked public source (Government release); it is not a severity or truth score.
| Field | Source support | Review note |
|---|---|---|
| Category | What's New in OCR | The category is supported by linked source metadata including What's New in OCR. |
| Affected communities | What's New in OCR | Affected-community labels are retained from public-source metadata and should be checked against source text before reuse. |
| Confidence | What's New in OCR | Confidence is based on verification status and source support rather than severity, prevalence, or legal truth. |
| Institutional response | What's New in OCR | Response-depth classification is "limited_public_response_note" based on the stored public response text. |
Use Limits
- This enriched audit text was generated from existing local metadata and does not represent outside validation.
- Use the linked public source material before quoting this record as an example.
- The record must not be used as a comparative campus judgment, risk rating, severity rating, or frequency measure.