The ongoing COVID-19 pandemic has brought experiential learning on multiple levels to a Middle Tennessee State University Honors ecology class. One week before MTSU spring classes began in January came the first reported U.S. cases of novel coronavirus. As weeks passed, the number of individuals testing positive exploded to hundreds of thousands of cases across…
Online registration is underway for the upcoming summer and fall 2020 academic terms at MTSU. Priority registration runs through Friday, April 17. Students can access the MTSU Registration Guide at http://mtsu.edu/registration/registration-guide.php, then should contact and meet their advisers either online, email or phone and obtain the classes they need. Tyler Henson, director of the MT…
Erin Coleman works the front end of the process, one of several Middle Tennessee State University students milking more than 50 dairy cows twice daily at the School of Agriculture’s Farm Laboratory in Lascassas, Tennessee. Brendon Puckett and two others handle the back end, delivering the bottled and packaged white and chocolate milk across campus…
Many Middle Tennessee State University students are taking advantage of remote help in 200 courses and subject areas during the remainder of the spring 2020 semester. For freshman premed chemistry major Curtis Dearing of Ooltewah, Tennessee, remote tutoring he has received from graduate student Lindsay Czap and several others “has been very helpful and prepared…
Middle Tennessee State University is supporting students who need technology assistance as the university finishes the semester with remote courses as a coronavirus outbreak precaution. Like many other schools in the state, the COVID-19 crisis prompted MTSU to move most of its usual on-ground campus classes to a new remote delivery of instruction. But as…
When Middle Tennessee State University leadership decided to finish the Spring semester with remote learning, many faculty members worked long hours to ensure their students could stay on course despite unique circumstances. One especially challenging circumstance arose in MTSU’s Department of Military Science and the Charlie and Hazel Daniels Veterans and Military Family Center. Three…
Middle Tennessee State University and Rutherford County Schools jointly announced Friday that high school graduation ceremonies set for May in MTSU’s Murphy Center will be rescheduled later this summer — if public health guidelines permit — due to concerns stemming from the COVID-19 outbreak. MTSU President Sidney A. McPhee and Rutherford County Director of Schools…
MTSU Creamery made a much-needed special delivery of its famous chocolate milk Wednesday morning to keep the Murfreesboro City Schools’ CHOW Bus properly stocked to serve children outside Hobgood Elementary School on Baird Lane. CHOW, which stands for Combatting Hunger on Wheels, was launched by Murfreesboro City Schools several years ago to provide meals for…
Middle Tennessee State University alumnus Dr. Elliott Tenpenny stands on the frontline of the COVID-19 outbreak in New York City. Tenpenny (Class of 2005), director of international health with Samaritan’s Purse, is leading a 72-member team that opened an emergency field hospital in Central Park on Tuesday, March 31. It is a 68-bed facility with…
Middle Tennessee State University’s Board of Trustees, which met Tuesday by teleconference due to COVID-19 virus concerns, approved two new undergraduate degree programs for the coming academic year. Chairman Steve Smith said the teleconference, which allowed the public to dial in and listen live, was necessary in light of social-distancing advice from state and federal…