Michigan State University President Lou Anna Simon plans to step down before the week is over, according to multiple reports. This comes in the wake of the sentencing Wednesday of former Michigan State doctor Larry Nassar to 40 to 175 years in prison as part of a plea deal on seven counts of first-degree criminal sexual conduct involving more than 160 girls and women over more than two decades.
The news was first reported by The State News, a Michigan State student newspaper.
Two of Michigan State's eight governing board members have called on Simon to resign.