[060] Week of Welcome Activities Await Students’ Return to MTSU Campus

Release date: Aug. 26, 2009


News & Public Affairs contact: Randy Weiler, 615-898-2919 or jweiler@mtsu.edu


Week of Welcome Activities Await Students’ Return to MTSU Campus


(MURFREESBORO) — All of the increased activity in the Greenland Drive/Rutherford Boulevard/East Main Street/Middle Tennessee Boulevard quadrant can mean only one thing: Students are returning to the MTSU campus for the fall 2009 semester.
School starts Aug. 29 (per Tennessee Board of Regents) for students taking Saturday classes, then Monday, Aug. 31, in earnest for the more than 24,000 undergraduate, graduate and online students taking courses to start the 2009-10 academic year, university officials report.
This week, MTSU Financial Aid and Business Office personnel in the Cope Administration Building have seen sizeable numbers of students trying to confirm their status for the semester.
Starting at 9 a.m. Friday, Aug. 28, the Student Leadership and Service-led We Haul will assist students moving into dormitories. Director Jackie Victory’s crew will perform the same service starting at 9 a.m. Saturday.
Other Week of Welcome activities, which actually become two weeks of welcome, include:
Friday, Aug. 27
6:30 p.m. – Dinner and music, KUC Courtyard
8 p.m. – Outdoor movie, “Dark Knight,” KUC Courtyard
Saturday, Aug. 28
10 a.m.-4 p.m. – Information booths
6 p.m. – Dinner and Street Fair, KUC Courtyard
Sunday, Aug. 30
2 p.m. – University Convocation featuring speaker Michael Gates Gill, Murphy Center
Monday, Aug. 31
Classes begin
Tuesday, Sept. 1
10 a.m.-2 p.m. – Meet Murfreesboro, KUC Courtyard
Wednesday, Sept. 2
10 a.m.-2 p.m. – Meet Murfreesboro, KUC Courtyard
8 p.m. – Comedian Ralphie May, Murphy Center
Thursday, Sept. 3
11 a.m.-1 p.m. – MTSU Department Fair, KUC Courtyard
Noon – Free cookies and lemonade, KUC Courtyard
5:30 p.m. – Blue Raider Bash, KUC Courtyard
Monday, Sept. 7
Labor Day Holiday (no classes; university closed)
Tuesday, Sept. 8
10 a.m.-2 p.m. – Volunteer Fair, KUC Courtyard
Wednesday, Sept. 9
10 a.m.-2 p.m. – Student Organization Fair, KUC Courtyard
Friday, Sept. 11
8 p.m.-midnight – Dance the Night Away, James Union Building Tennessee Room


MTSU Fall 2009 calendar
Aug. 29 – Classes begin
Sept. 7 – Labor Day (no classes; university closed)
Oct. 17-20 – Fall break (no classes)
Nov. 26-28 – Thanksgiving holidays (no classes; university closed)
Dec. 9 – Last day of classes
Dec. 10 – Study day (no classes)
Dec. 11-17 – Final examinations
Dec. 19 – Commencement
Dec. 21 – Deadline for final grades

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Media welcomed.

Media note: In regard to We Haul Friday and Saturday, Sarah Sudak, executive director of Housing and Residential Life, requests any media videoing or taking digital photos remain outside the dorms. No one is permitted on any residential floor (including exterior access buildings).