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Spartan Bus Tour
  • Past Tours
  • About
  • Regional Route 2026: Southern Michigan
  • Tour Formats
  • FAQS

< Past Tours

  • Local Loop 2026: Flint and the Bay Region
  • Regional Route 2025: Upper Peninsula
  • Local Loop 2025: Detroit
  • Inaugural Spartan Bus Tour 2024

< About

< Regional Route 2026: Southern Michigan

< Tour Formats

< FAQS

Inaugural Spartan Bus Tour 2024

Western Lower Peninsula 

From Oct. 21-23, 2024, Michigan State University President Kevin M. Guskiewicz, Ph.D., and a group of faculty and administrators set out on the inaugural Spartan Bus Tour. They visited locations throughout the western Lower Peninsula of Michigan to build community connections and strengthen MSU’s commitment to education, research, outreach and extension.
 

Recap Video 

Watch the inaugural Spartan Bus Tour visit local businesses, schools, state parks, and cultural and research sites across the western Lower Peninsula.

Dark green background; in lighter green and white text list on left side from middle to bottom: 2024 bus route; 1. Mt Pleasant, 2. Le Roy, 3. Grayling, 4. Traverse City, 5. Glen Arbor, 6. Arcadia, 7. Ludington, 8. Muskegon, 9. Conklin, 10. Rockford, 11. Grand Rapids, 12. Zeeland, 13. Hickory Corners. White outline of the state of Michigan with numbered map markers and dotted line route.

Tour Route 

Learn more about the locations in Western Michigan.

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Featured Stories

MSUToday

Oct. 28, 2024

Faculty voice: Reflections on the Spartan Bus Tour

MSUToday

Oct. 28, 2024

Impactful, enriching, rewarding: 8 takeaways from the inaugural Spartan Bus Tour

MSUToday

Oct. 28, 2024

Michigan State University’s inaugural Spartan Bus Tour ‘brings MSU to Michigan’

MSUToday

Oct. 21, 2024

Strong roots: How MSU supports Michigan’s resilient fruit growers

MSUToday

Oct. 21, 2024

Waves, wind and weather: MSU scientists protect Michigan coastlines

MSUToday

Oct. 21, 2024

From research to real-world health: The power of strategic partnerships

MSUToday

Oct. 21, 2024

‘Unparalleled’: Spartans lead research for a sustainable Michigan

MSUToday

Oct. 14, 2024

Spartan Bus Tour 2024 to highlight scope of MSU’s statewide impact

In the News

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MSU bus tour, president comes to Ludington State Park
Ludington Daily News

Inaugural Spartan Bus Tour makes stop in Grand Rapids
Wood TV8

Spartan Bus Tour highlights scope of MSU’s statewide impact
WGVN News

MSU bus tour visits horticultural center
The Record Eagle

MSU Bus Tour kicks off at Ziibiwing Center
The Morning Sun

New MSU president, administrators plan 3-day bus tour 'to build connections'
Detroit News

MSU President prepares to tour the state
WLNS

Inaugural MSU Spartan Bus Tour will visit Ludington State Park
Mason County Press

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