It was an intimate but touching setting inside the Miller Education Center’s second floor atrium as the Charlie and Hazel Daniels Veterans and Military Family Center again recognized military veterans and active-duty employees working on campus with the MTSU Faculty/Staff Veterans Stole Ceremony. Faculty members Lt. Col. Arlin Wilsher, professor in the Department of Military…
Middle Tennessee State University is tapping the expertise and insights of 10 business leaders in the region who have been named to the Advisory Committee for the Jennings and Rebecca Jones Chair of Excellence in Urban and Regional Planning. “The advisory committee members include community stakeholders who invest their time and resources to make Middle…
For area MTSU alumni business leaders were recognized recently with special awards from the Jennings A. Jones College of Business at Middle Tennessee State University. The awards were presented at a special reception in advance of the 2022 Leadership Summit: Innovative Leadership at Embassy Suites in Murfreesboro, Tennessee. The Young Professional of the Year Award…
Middle Tennessee State University’s True Blue Tour 2022 is nearing the end of its recruitment effort that visits 14 cities in four states to connect prospective students, their families and local school counselors and community college staff with leadership of MTSU’s 300-plus programs and offerings. University President Sidney A. McPhee and other administrators and staff…
Nearly 5,000 Rutherford County Schools’ students turned Murphy Center from the Glass House to the Loud House. The fourth- and fifth-grade students turned the decibel levels on high — but it could have been louder Monday, Nov. 7, when the 4,700 students got wound up during the Middle Tennessee Blue Raiders 79-52 victory against the…
“The Judds: Love is Alive – The Final Concert” at MTSU’s Murphy Center was filled with True Blue full-circle moments — from headliner Wynonna Judd’s historic homecoming to the venue that recreated the 1991 farewell concert with her late mother to Blue Raider community members past and present working shoulder-to-shoulder to make the star-studded, made-for-TV…
MTSU’s College of Education was one of only 32 total institutions to be recognized by the Council for the Accreditation of Educator Preparation for its quality as an education preparation provider. Each year, CAEP selects education preparation providers accredited by the council to receive the Frank Murray Leadership Recognition for Continuous Improvement designation, with other…
Author Ryan Jenkins began his keynote remarks for Middle Tennessee State University’s recent Leadership Summit at Embassy Suites with the story of the tiny hamlet of Kugluktuk in western Canada that at one point had the world’s highest teen suicide rate despite a population of just under 1,500 people. In response to the crisis, the…
The tireless work of MTSU professor Mary Evins and her team of student and community volunteers has once again registered a success — the university earned its second win as the top four-year, public university in Secretary of State Tre Hargett’s College Voter Registration Competition. “Consistency, commitment, perseverance, drive and unwavering dedication got us this…
Like many Blue Raider students with outside responsibilities or unique schedules, MTSU English major and current senior Vincent Taylor needed a course of study that could accommodate his life outside of the classroom. “I take care of my grandmother full time in my hometown,” said Taylor, who lives about 170 miles away from campus in…