There Is Much More To MSU Title IX & Alumni Director Scott Westerman Resignation

I pulled the protocols for the Michigan State University Office for Institutional Equity and found this:

 Unique circumstances of individual cases may give rise to issues not addressed by this document, which may necessitate further discussion and agreement.

I am pretty sure there is more going on than just the Title IX investigation because this protocol document was created March 18, 2019 where the file name is tagged with "assets".

Alumni are assets, as in human capital?

Strange, huh?

By the way, where is Maura Corrigan?

Perhaps, she is busy preparing for legal appeals or in Kansas teaching its private corporations within the State government on the ways of stealin'.

MSU alumni director resigns amid investigation by Title IX office

Michigan State University's alumni executive director is under investigation by the school's Title IX office and has resigned, the school confirmed to the Free Press.

Scott Westerman

Scott Westerman, associate vice president for alumni relations and executive director of the MSU Alumni Association, told the school his resignation will take effect July 31. His resignation letter said he was moving to Florida to be closer to family and return to the private sector.

 Bob Thomas will serve as interim director of the MSU Alumni Association while a search for a new executive director is conducted, MSU spokeswoman Emily Guerrant told the Free Press after the newspaper asked about Westerman's status.

A complaint was filed against Westerman with the school's Office for Institutional Equity on Feb. 9, Guerrant confirmed. The investigation is ongoing. Further details weren't available. The OIE investigates discrimination, harassment, and violations of the school's Anti-Discrimination Policy and Policy on Relationship Violence and Sexual Misconduct.

Westerman is the latest high profile member of MSU's administration to leave. The university is going with ongoing fallout from the Larry Nassar case, along with other federal lawsuits alleging coverups of sexual assault reports.

Westerman has been at MSU since 2010, when he took over as leader of the university's alumni association.

He came to the university to MSU from Albuquerque, N.M., where he was an area vice president for Comcast Corp.’s West Division. Westerman obtained his Bachelor of Arts degree in telecommunication from MSU in 1978. In 2001, he was awarded the MSU College of Communication Arts and Sciences Distinguished Alumnus award. Before coming to MSU as an employee, he was active in the school's alumni association, including chairing its national alumni board.

A number of MSU officals have left the university in recent months, starting with President Lou Anna Simon, who resigned under heavy pressure for her handling of the Larry Nassar case.

Athletic Director Mark Hollis stepped down as well in January, a couple of days after the NCAA announced an investigation into the school's handling of Nassar and hours before ESPN released a report critical of the athletic department handling of sexual assault accusations.

Robert Noto, the university's top lawyer, left in February. Before he left, MSU Trustee Brian Mossallam called for Noto to step down over his work during the Nassar case.

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