Reaffirming a partnership established in 2012, the presidents of Middle Tennessee State University and Jackson State Community College signed agreements Wednesday (Oct. 18) creating a smoother transition for students wanting to transfer from the West Tennessee college to the Murfreesboro university.   The signing occurred at the Jackson Country Club, where MTSU hosted its annual True Blue Tour luncheon for high school counselors…

More than 50 Midstate high school counselors and community college staff attended an MTSU admissions-hosted luncheon as the university courts them in an effort to recruit students for 2018 and beyond.   The 52 counselors from Rutherford and surrounding counties and directors and staff from Motlow College’s Smyrna campus learned about MTSU’s 240 combined undergraduate (140)…

Middle Tennessee State University again enlisted a diverse cast of students, faculty, staff and alumni to recite the latest video expression of what is becoming a cherished Blue Raider tradition.   The True Blue Pledge is recited each fall at MTSU’s annual University Convocation ceremony during which university President Sidney A. McPhee, top executives and…

MTSU will be closed Monday, Sept. 4, in observance of Labor Day. All business offices will be closed and no classes will be held.   Offices will reopen at 8 a.m. and all fall semester classes will resume Tuesday, Sept. 5.   Classes will be held Sept. 2 for students taking Saturday classes.   Some venues will have operating hours during the holiday weekend….

 College football fever returns to the MTSU campus Saturday, Sept. 2, as the Blue Raiders entertain Vanderbilt in a nonconference game at 7 p.m. in Floyd Stadium.   At 2:30 p.m., 4.5 hours before kickoff, the inaugural “Minds of Middle: The Deans’ Tailgate” begins in Walnut Grove between Peck Hall and Cope Administration Building.   In what may become one of the top…

Maybe it was the free slices of pizza or hot dogs and chips. Possibly it was the $5 T-shirts, Smoothie King samples, opportunities to join off-campus student ministries or other goodies.   With bright and warm sunshine as a backdrop, Middle Tennessee State University’s two-day “Meet Murfreesboro” Connection Point event drew a crowd in the Student Union Commons.   The…

he Great Tennessee Eclipse at Middle Tennessee State University Aug. 21 will bring thousands of schoolchildren and other visitors to campus for the highly anticipated midday to early afternoon natural phenomenon.   MTSU, the College of Basic and Applied Sciences and its Department of Physics and Astronomy will host a four-hour solar eclipse observing party. Thousands of Rutherford County Schools and Murfreesboro City Schools students have…

Professor Michael Sherr, chair of the MTSU Department of Social Work, sat among his colleagues in the James E. Walker Library conference room Thursday to discuss why students need hands-on experience no matter what field of study. “Social work is a field where everything students learn in undergrad, in general education courses- actually will use,”…

Yet another shooting has taken place on Greenland Drive near Middle Tennessee State University’s campus. Police said it happened at 1:50 p.m. Thursday at the Student Quarters apartments in the courtyard area. When officers arrived, they found a man, identified as 23-year-old Jessie Buford, had been shot multiple times. He was taken to St. Thomas…