398 MTSU SPRING COMMENCEMENT TO BE AVAILABLE ON INTERNET

April 19, 2006
CONTACT: Tom Tozer, 615-898-2919

MURFREESBORO—Both morning and afternoon Spring Commencement ceremonies at Middle Tennessee State University, which will be held at 9 a.m. and 2 p.m. Saturday, May 6, in Murphy Center, will once again be available via Webcast on the university Web site.
For those people who will not be able to attend in person and have access to the Internet, the following steps will provide the Webcast link:

1. Go to the university home page: www.mtsu.edu
2. Click on the “Spring 2006 Commencement” photo at right.
3. Under “Live Events,” click on the “Spring 2006 Commencement” text. This will launch your previously installed Windows Media Player.

If your computer lacks Windows Media Player, click on the “Windows Media Player” option at right. The link will take you to a Webpage that contains all the available computer versions. Select the appropriate one for your computer, download it, and install it. Then retry by clicking on “Spring 2006 Commencement.”
Please note that on the day of commencement, the link will not be active until approximately 15 minutes prior to the start of each commencement ceremony.
Candidates from the College of Graduate Studies, Jennings A. Jones College of Business, and College of Education and Behavioral Science will receive their degrees in the morning ceremony. That afternoon degrees will be conferred on candidates in the College of Basic and Applied Sciences, College of Liberal Arts, College of Mass Communication, and the College of Continuing Education and Distance Learning.
The Right Honorable Perry Gladstone Christie, current prime minister of The Commonwealth of The Bahamas, will be the guest speaker for the 9 a.m. ceremony. Christie, who also serves as the minister of finance, was sworn in as the third PM of an independent Bahamas on May 3, 2002, following his triumph in a free general election.
Nashville Mayor Bill Purcell, now in his second term as mayor of the Metropolitan Government of Nashville, will be the featured speaker for the 2 p.m. ceremony. Purcell was firts elected in 1999, then re-elected to a second mayoral term with a record-setting 84.8 percent of the vote.
The May 6 commencement will celebrate the graduation of another record-setting number of spring graduates at 2,042 undergraduate candidates (1,736) and graduate candidates (306). No tickets will be required to attend the ceremonies in Murphy Center.

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