EAST LANSING – Michigan State groups are working to pull together $75,000 to bring actor and former NFL player Terry Crews to campus.

Crews, who went public with his story of being sexually assaulted in 2017, will tentatively be the keynote speaker for MSU's It's On Us Week of Action in April. The five-day event is part of a movement to end sexual assault on college campuses

A subcommittee of the Associated Students of Michigan State University board passed a bill Thursday to allow for the group to spend $25,000 to bring Crews to campus.

According to a State News article, two other groups — the Residence Halls Association and Spartan Athletics — have offered to contribute $25,000 each to cover Crews' entire speaking engagement fee.

Crews has been an activist and supporter of sexual assault survivors. He's also specifically addressed the way MSU's administration handled sexual assault reports in the wake of the Larry Nassar scandal.

In two tweets in January, Crews called for and then celebrated the resignation of former Interim President John Engler.

On Tuesday, he also retweeted a USA TODAY sports column calling Michigan State a seemingly bottomless "cesspool of abuse and indifference."

The appropriation still needs to pass the ASMSU general assembly. The group meets at 7 p.m. Thursday in room 115 of the International Center.

Contact reporter Megan Banta at (517) 377-1261 or mbanta@lsj.com. Follow her on Twitter @MeganBanta_1.