The general public and MTSU community are invited to the upcoming 14th Stole Ceremony for graduating student veterans. The event, which is coordinated by the Charlie and Hazel Daniels Veterans and Military Family Center, will be held starting at 10 a.m. Thursday, Aug. 1, in the second-floor atrium of the Miller Education Center, 503 Bell…
The City of Murfreesboro and Middle Tennessee State University officials will gather to celebrate enhancements to Middle Tennessee Boulevard. The opening ceremony will be held Friday, Aug. 2, 2019 at the Faulkinberry Drive entrance. Who: City of Murfreesboro and Middle Tennessee State University; City Development Services and Public Works divisions along with City Transportation Department…
A late-afternoon thunderstorm didn’t dampen the spirits or enthusiasm for those attending the second MTSU Veteran Impact Celebration at The Grove at Williamson Place Thursday (June 27). Dodging the downpour, veterans appeared along with local business owners, musicians, MTSU staff and administrators and even three local mayors. The event raised more than $150,000 for the…
Brothers Michael and Aden Luchtefeld didn’t have to fly in for the Civil Air Patrol national E-Tech Engineering Technologies Academy like many of their fellow cadets had to do this week at Middle Tennessee State University. The Luchtefelds, who are homeschooled, live 20 minutes away, in Christiana, Tennessee. Other participants came from New Jersey, Georgia,…
The global demand for professional pilots helped propel a partnership approved Monday between Middle Tennessee State University and Moi University of Kenya. MTSU President Sidney A. McPhee and Isaac Kosgey, Moi’s chief executive officer, signed a five-year pact that will allow their respective aerospace faculty to collaborate on teaching, research and student exchanges. The two…
U.S. Sen. Marsha Blackburn visited Middle Tennessee State university’s Charlie and Hazel Daniels Veterans and Military Family Center for the first time Friday, June 21, gaining a better understanding of how veterans can transition to becoming successful students, eventually graduate and become productive citizens in the workforce. Blackburn was led on the tour by Keith…
Middle Tennessee State University’s “We Are Music” marketing campaign, which highlighted the music industry work of current students and alumni in three colleges, was awarded Best of Show honors recently by the Tennessee College Public Relations Association. The Best of Show honor, issued at the TCPRA annual conference in Maryville, was one of 17 awards…
Middle Tennessee State University is the No. 1 choice of Tennessee Promise students who have transferred from one of the state’s community colleges to a four-year institution. MTSU President Sidney A. McPhee made the announcement at Tuesday’s Board of Trustees meeting held inside the Miller Education Center on Bell Street. McPhee shared with trustees recent…
MTSU’s Jennings A. Jones College of Business has tapped the expertise of a longtime Midstate financial services executive and alumnus to fill its new accounting chairholder of excellence position. Tom Walker (Class of ’78), former managing partner of Deloitte’s Nashville office, is the inaugural holder of the Joey Jacobs Chair of Excellence in Accounting, which…