[240] MTSU Announces Graduates For Fall 2009

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: Dec. 21, 2009
EDITORIAL CONTACT: Office of News and Public Affairs, 615-898-2919

MTSU ANNOUNCES GRADUATES FOR FALL 2009
County-by-County Listing of Fall 2009 Graduates Now Available Online

(MURFREESBORO)—Middle Tennessee State University has released the names and hometowns of those students who graduated during the fall 2009 commencement event held Saturday, Dec. 19, in Murphy Center on the MTSU campus.
Of the 1,633 who graduated during the 98th fall commencement, 1,398 were undergraduates and 235 were graduate students, including 218 master’s candidates, 12 Education Specialist recipients and five Ph.D. candidates.
The dual-commencement event featured Mike Williams, a former state representative and MTSU alumnus, as the guest speaker for the 9 a.m. ceremony. Ellen Leifeld, former publisher and president of The Tennessean in Nashville, was the featured speaker for the 1 p.m. commencement ceremony.
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 were 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, were 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 2009 commencement, please access this information on the News and Public Affairs 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 2009” link, which will include an alphabetical, county-by-county listing of those MTSU students who graduated on Dec. 19, 2009.
***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.

With three Nobel Prize winners among its alumni and former faculty, Middle Tennessee State University confers master’s degrees in 10 areas, the Specialist in Education degree, the Doctor of Arts degree and the Doctor of Philosophy degree. MTSU is ranked among the top 100 public universities in the nation in the Forbes “America’s Best Colleges” 2009 survey.