212 MTSU ANNOUNCES GRADUATES FOR FALL 2007

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: Dec. 11, 2007
CONTACT: News and Public Affairs, 615-898-2493

MTSU ANNOUNCES GRADUATES FOR FALL 2007
County-by-County Listing of Fall 2007 Graduates Available Online Dec. 17

(MURFREESBORO)—Beginning Monday, Dec. 17, Middle Tennessee State University (MTSU) will release the names and hometowns of those students who will graduate during the fall 2007 commencement ceremony on Saturday, Dec. 15, in Murphy Center on the MTSU campus.
Of the 1,489 set to graduate during the 96th fall commencement, 1,289 are undergraduates and 200 are graduate students, including 187 master’s candidates, 10 education specialist (Ed.S.) degree candidates and three Ph.D. candidates.
The dual-commencement event will feature Gregg F. Morton, who serves as president of AT&T Tennessee, one of the world’s largest telecommunications holding companies and the largest in the United States, as the guest speaker for the 9 a.m. ceremony.
Dr. Viola Miller, who was appointed commissioner of the Tennessee Department of Children’s Services in December 2003, will be the featured speaker for the 1 p.m. commencement ceremony. A veteran child-welfare administrator, Miller is the former secretary of families and children for the Commonwealth of Kentucky and past dean of Murray State University’s Center for Continuing Education and Academic Outreach. She has an academic background in special education and speech therapy.
Following the ceremonies’ respective guest speakers, degree candidates from the College of Graduate Studies, Jennings A. Jones College of Business, and College of Education and Behavioral Science will be conferred with their degrees in the morning ceremony, while degree 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, will be conferred during the afternoon event.

 HOW TO OBTAIN YOUR COUNTY’S STUDENT LIST: To obtain a list for editorial use of those students from your county who graduated during MTSU’s fall 2007 commencement, please access this information on the News and Public Affairs (NPA) Web site at www.mtsunews.com and click on the “MTSU Graduation Lists” link on the upper, left-hand side of the page.
Next, click on the “Fall 2007” link, which will include an alphabetical, county-by-county listing of those MTSU students who graduate on Dec. 15.
***Please note that this Web page also contains directions on how to download and save your county’s list for editorial use in your publication.

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ATTENTION, MEDIA: If you encounter any problems downloading and saving your county’s dean’s list, please contact the Office of News and Public Affairs at MTSU at 615-898-2919 for assistance.