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…
The Tennessee Senate presented a resolution today (April 27) to the MTSU Blue Raider men’s basketball team for its on-court successes this year, including a Conference USA title and consecutive NCAA tournament second round appearance. The Blue Raiders finished the overall season 31-5.
Middle Tennessee football agreed Tuesday to play at Iowa in 2019 for a whopping $1.55 million. The Blue Raiders play the Hawkeyes for the first time in school history in Des Moines on Sept. 28 of 2019. Iowa went 8-5 last season with a win over No. 2-ranked Michigan while competing against Florida in the…
The Nashville Sounds will celebrate Middle Tennessee State University on Wednesday, April 12, with its third annual True Blue Night at First Tennessee Park. The Sounds are offering discounted tickets to MTSU supporters. Tickets are $8 plus tax and fees and can be purchased athttp://www.mtsu.edu/sounds. Use the discount code: trueblue17. First-pitch is at 6:35 p.m., with gates opening at…
MTSU junior Caitlin Couch was thrilled to join a select group of her classmates recently to hear first hand from women business professionals about their career and life journeys as well as the challenges and opportunities that await Couch and the next generation of leaders. Couch, a marketing major from Hendersonville, Tennessee, was among the…