[386]AREA EXECUTIVES RETURN TO MTSU APRIL 11 TO SHARE INSIGHTS

AREA EXECUTIVES RETURN TO MTSU APRIL 11 TO SHARE INSIGHTS
17th Annual University Takeover/Executives-in-Residence Program Planned

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: April 8, 2008
EDITORIAL CONTACT: Gina E. Fann, 615-898-5385

(MURFREESBORO)—Business executives from around the region will take over 10:15 and 11:20 a.m. classes at MTSU on Friday, April 11, in an event that has become one of the university's signature occasions linking textbook theory and real-world applicability.
The 17th Annual University Takeover/Executives-in-Residence program, sponsored by the Jennings A. Jones Chair of Excellence in Free Enterprise, is the largest event of its kind in the Southeast, according to event organizers in the Jennings A. Jones College of Business.
Local CEOs, business owners, directors and managers will meet with morning classes to share their experiences and answer questions from students on topics like job interviewing and how to climb the corporate ladder.
"The Executives-in-Residence program provides an opportunity for our students to interact with some very dynamic executives in Middle Tennessee and gives them a chance to see some of the theory they're being taught in actual practice," said Dr. Jim Burton, dean of the Jones College of Business.
"The classroom experience will also give visiting executives an opportunity to know more about the quality of the students that we're making available to them as future employees. This event represents everything that Jennings Jones was about--vision, achievement and giving back."
Following the morning classes, there will be an invitation-only luncheon at 12:30 p.m. in the Tennessee Room of the James Union Building.
The luncheon speaker will be John R. Ingram, vice chairman of Ingram Industries Inc. and CEO of Ingram Content Holdings, which includes Ingram Book Group, Lighting Source Inc., and Ingram Digital Group. Ingram earned his bachelor's degree in English from Princeton University in 1984 and received his MBA from the Owen Graduate School of Management at Vanderbilt University.
Ingram is a member of the board of directors of Ingram Micro Inc., the National Book Foundation and the National Center for Learning Disabilities. He serves on the Board of Trustees for Vanderbilt, Montgomery Bell Academy and The Harpeth Hall School in Nashville.

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IN BRIEF: Business executives from around the region will take over 10:15 and 11:20 a.m. classes at MTSU on Friday, April 11, in an event that has become one of the university's signature occasions linking textbook theory and real-world applicability. The 17th Annual University Takeover/Executives-in-Residence program, sponsored by the Jennings A. Jones Chair of Excellence in Free Enterprise, is the largest event of its kind in the Southeast, according to event organizers in the Jennings A. Jones College of Business. Local CEOs, business owners, directors and managers will meet with morning classes to share their experiences and answer questions from students on topics like job interviewing and how to climb the corporate ladder.

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ATTENTION, MEDIA: This release was written by Brittany Witt, a senior majoring in journalism at MTSU. We request your use of her byline if you use the release in its entirety.

For color JPEGs of Dean Jim Burton or John R. Ingram, please contact Gina E. Fann in the Office of News and Public Affairs via e-mail at gfann@mtsu.edu or by calling 615-898-5385.

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