EAST LANSING, Mich. (Michigan News Source) – The Michigan State University Board of Trustees gave the go-ahead to the university to move forward with its plan to build a $38 million, 34,000-square-foot multicultural center on campus.

The authorization allows MSU to break ground on the new center later this spring. Completion of the center is expected by the fall of 2024.

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The MSU Multicultural Center will include an outdoor amphitheater, a “Dreamer Center” to help undocumented students succeed, collaboration spaces, office space for the Council of Racial and Ethnic Students and the Council of Progressive Students Council, prayer rooms, and art gallery wall, and a resource center.