With an extensive background in international accounting and licensed as both a lawyer and CPA, Jarett “Jerry” Decker hopes to bring his global and legal experience to bear as the new Joey A. Jacobs Chair of Excellence in Accounting and Professor of Practice within MTSU’s Jennings A. Jones College of Business. “I had always dreamed…

Since the first day of fall semester classes, MTSU professor Mary Evins and her team of student and community volunteers have been hard at work on their goal — register Blue Raider students to vote and prepare them with a voting plan. So far, the team has registered over 400 students since the first day…

Middle Tennessee State University announced Tuesday, Sept. 20, that it substantially increased the value and broadened eligibility of its True Blue Scholarship, almost doubling the amount of the award offered to qualified incoming freshmen. President Sidney A. McPhee said the True Blue Scholarship, the first tier of MTSU’s array of guaranteed academic scholarships, will now…

Dozens of Middle Tennessee State University students were recently introduced to 16 Murfreesboro-area organizations seeking volunteer help in the coming year. The students, a mix of freshmen and upperclassmen, spent time with the representatives from on- and off-campus businesses or ministries. It was all a part of the annual Volunteer Fair, held during the fall…

MTSU history alumnus Ben Wilkinson considers himself an amateur pop culture historian. “I celebrate those who contributed immensely to some part of our culture,” Wilkinson said, “eccentric and unique people … who have made an impact on society by doing things their own way and not trying to ‘fit in’ with what society deems as…

Middle Tennessee State University’s Board of Trustees voted Tuesday to ask the state for an additional $20 million for its Applied Engineering building project to cover inflationary increases in construction cost. MTSU received state approval last year for a new 89,000-square-foot, $54.9 million Applied Engineering Building that will serve as the home for the Engineering…

The MTSU College of Education’s Early Childhood Education faculty and Early Learning programs invite local early childhood educators and MTSU students to register now for the Play Symposium 2022 scheduled for Saturday, Oct. 1. “The Play Symposium is a conference for early childhood educators designed to emphasize the value of play,” said Pam Ertel, associate…

More than 60 Middle Tennessee State University students and student veterans learned about job and career opportunities and inner workings of the FBI recently during a meet-and-greet session on campus with agent and recruiter Trisha Brotan. Brotan, who is with the FBI’s Memphis, Tennessee, Field Office but based in Nashville, shared information and showed videos…