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On August 1, Samuel Stanley Jr. officially became Michigan State University's 21st president. Stanley is a medical doctor and a former president at Stony¹ Brook² University in New York.

He is the first permanent leader at the university since former President Lou Anna Simon resigned at the height of the Larry Nassar scandal. After her resignation, former Michigan Governor John Engler, and then MSU Dean Satish Udpa, served as interim³ presidents.

Stateside spoke⁴ with Stanley about why he wanted the position, and what his goals are for his first year in office.

You can hear our full conversation with MSU President Samuel Stanley, Jr. above.

How do we begin to turn the cultural tide where women and all people are feeling safe on campus and around the campus areas?

Stanley says that he needs to deliver a system that people have confidence in. He wants to make sure "people believe that if they make a report, the report will be fairly investigated—that there's enough people on campus to do those investigations⁵ in a timely and effective manner."

He also believes that education and awareness⁶ on campus is important.

So we've reached, as I've mentioned before, 72,000 people in training last year," Stanley said. "That's incredibly important. But we need to find different ways to reach people. It's not enough to just do online."

How do you begin to tackle some of those issues?

Stanley says the first thing he wants to do as president is meet with sexual assault survivors⁸. Then he wants to take steps to better understand the culture and climate at MSU. He says the school has recently completed a survey 15,000 faculty⁹, staff, and students.

"The data from that will be coming out and that will help guide," Stanley said. "And then, paying attention to the multiple investigations that have taken place. Where are areas where our policies and procedures broke down? Where are areas where we may have been understaffed? Where are areas where people didn't know where responsibilities were, or if they [did], then they failed to act on them?"

You said, and you have said before, that you are planning on meeting with survivors of Larry Nassar. Have you been able to speak with them yet?

"No, not directly. But that will take place in September. So we're working now, so we have a relationship violence and sexual misconduct group. So they're working now as a liaison¹⁰ for us with the survivor⁷ communities. And that would be not just survivors of Nassar, but survivors of sexual assault in the MSU community. And so we'll have meetings with those groups."

These major institutions in the state have struggled to make sure their populations are diverse. How do you go about turning the tide to looking maybe more like Stony Brook?

Stanley says that it starts with him at the top.

"It needs to be clear to everyone in the institution that this is something I value and care about, that this matters to me. And I'm going to hold people accountable essentially¹¹ for their performance in that area."

At Stonybrook, Stanley says he implemented¹² reviews with his senior leadership team to evaluate diversity in application pools and hirings. He also incorporated trainings on diversity and cultural competency into pre-orientation programs in an effort to improve campus climate.

Do you think you'll have to be combating the ills of the previous administration?

"I don't really know the answer to that yet. I know I'm going to work very hard to earn people's trust and that's based on, you know, doing the things I say I'm going to do. We've talked about a lot of things today, but the question is: Am I going to do them? I think by doing those things and being committed to the things I talked about today, to actually implementing¹³ them, I think that's how you start to earn trust."

This post was written by production assistant Catherine Nouhan.

1 stony   

adj.石头的，多石头的，冷酷的，无情的

参考例句：

• The ground is too dry and stony.这块地太干，而且布满了石头。
• He listened to her story with a stony expression.他带着冷漠的表情听她讲经历。

2 brook   

n.小河，溪；v.忍受，容让

参考例句：

• In our room we could hear the murmur of a distant brook.在我们房间能听到远处小溪汩汩的流水声。
• The brook trickled through the valley.小溪涓涓流过峡谷。

3 interim   

adj.暂时的，临时的；n.间歇，过渡期间

参考例句：

• The government is taking interim measures to help those in immediate need.政府正在采取临时措施帮助那些有立即需要的人。
• It may turn out to be an interim technology.这可能只是个过渡技术。

4 spoke   

n.（车轮的）辐条；轮辐；破坏某人的计划；阻挠某人的行动 v.讲，谈（speak的过去式）；说；演说；从某种观点来说

参考例句：

• They sourced the spoke nuts from our company.他们的轮辐螺帽是从我们公司获得的。
• The spokes of a wheel are the bars that connect the outer ring to the centre.辐条是轮子上连接外圈与中心的条棒。

5 investigations   

（正式的）调查( investigation的名词复数 )； 侦查； 科学研究； 学术研究

参考例句：

• His investigations were intensive and thorough but revealed nothing. 他进行了深入彻底的调查，但没有发现什么。
• He often sent them out to make investigations. 他常常派他们出去作调查。

6 awareness   

n.意识，觉悟，懂事，明智

参考例句：

• There is a general awareness that smoking is harmful.人们普遍认识到吸烟有害健康。
• Environmental awareness has increased over the years.这些年来人们的环境意识增强了。

7 survivor   

n.生存者，残存者，幸存者

参考例句：

• The sole survivor of the crash was an infant.这次撞车的惟一幸存者是一个婴儿。
• There was only one survivor of the plane crash.这次飞机失事中只有一名幸存者。

8 survivors   

幸存者，残存者，生还者( survivor的名词复数 )

参考例句：

• The survivors were adrift in a lifeboat for six days. 幸存者在救生艇上漂流了六天。
• survivors clinging to a raft 紧紧抓住救生筏的幸存者

9 faculty   

n.才能；学院，系；(学院或系的)全体教学人员

参考例句：

• He has a great faculty for learning foreign languages.他有学习外语的天赋。
• He has the faculty of saying the right thing at the right time.他有在恰当的时候说恰当的话的才智。

10 liaison   

n.联系，（未婚男女间的）暖昧关系，私通

参考例句：

• She acts as a liaison between patients and staff.她在病人与医护人员间充当沟通的桥梁。
• She is responsible for liaison with researchers at other universities.她负责与其他大学的研究人员联系。

11 essentially   

adv.本质上，实质上，基本上

参考例句：

• Really great men are essentially modest.真正的伟人大都很谦虚。
• She is an essentially selfish person.她本质上是个自私自利的人。

12 implemented   

v.实现( implement的过去式和过去分词 )；执行；贯彻；使生效

参考例句：

• This agreement, if not implemented, is a mere scrap of paper. 这个协定如不执行只不过是一纸空文。 来自《现代汉英综合大词典》
• The economy is in danger of collapse unless far-reaching reforms are implemented. 如果不实施影响深远的改革，经济就面临崩溃的危险。 来自辞典例句

13 implementing   

v.实现( implement的现在分词 )；执行；贯彻；使生效

参考例句：

• -- Implementing a comprehensive drug control strategy. ――实行综合治理的禁毒战略。 来自汉英非文学 - 白皮书
• He was in no hurry about implementing his unshakable principle. 他并不急于实行他那不可动摇的原则。 来自辞典例句