Michigan State University President Lou Anna Simon announced her resignation Wednesday, the same day that former MSU doctor Larry Nassar was sentenced to 40 to 175 years for criminal sexual conduct involving more than 100 girls and women over more than two decades.
Nassar committed the abuse when he was supposed to be treating the girls and women for injuries in a sports clinic on Michigan State's campus. Many of the women who spoke at a sentencing hearing for Nasser in the past week blamed the university for missing opportunities to stop his abuse earlier.
In a letter on the university's website announcing her resignation, Simon said: "The last year and a half has been very difficult for the victims of Larry Nassar, for the university community and for me personally.