News and Media Relations contact: Randy Weiler, 615-898-5616 or Randy.Weiler@mtsu.edu
MTSU Honors College
contact: Laura Clippard, 615-898-5464 or Laura.Clippard@mtsu.edu
MURFREESBORO — From as far away as Missouri and New York
City, a record 500-plus people attended the fourth annual University Honors
College Presidents’ Day Open House on Feb. 18.
The open house,
which has become a campus tradition, welcomes prospective students — from
freshmen to high school seniors — to gain a glimpse of campus on a day when
most of them are out for a school holiday. Family members joined them on the
visit.
Dean John Vile
and Laura Clippard, undergraduate fellowships coordinator and event organizer,
said they were extremely pleased with the turnout.
For Kaleb King,
expected to sign to play baseball for the Blue Raiders and a 2013-14 Honors
College Buchanan Fellow, it marked his third visit to campus.
“I found this
(the Honors College) through Coach (Jim) McGuire when I came for a visit,” said
King, a pitcher and outfielder for St. Louis University High. “This (Paul W.
Martin Sr. Honors Building) is a really nice building. I like how the Honors
College classes are small.”
King, who was
visiting with his father, Greg King, said he is undecided on a major.
Shelley Cobb of
Antioch, Tenn., also a 2013-14 Buchanan Fellow, said she plans to major in
biology with a pre-med track.
“This has been
really good,” said Cobb, s senior at Hume-Fogg Academic High School in
Nashville, talking about the visit. “I went to the Buchanan breakfast, which
was real personalized. I talked to a current Buchanan Fellow.”
Visiting with
her parents, Carol and Gregory Cobb, both 1984 MTSU alumni, Shelley Cobb said
the visit allowed her “to get to know a lot about the school I didn’t know.”
Her new knowledge included learning more about the Buchanan Fellowship, touring
the Honors College, discovering the advantage of being in the Honors College
and being able to study abroad.
Aiman Farooqui,
a senior at Cambridge High School in Milton, Ga., near Alpharetta, said he
plans to study pre-engineering with a mechanical engineering emphasis. He and
his mother, Iffat, attended the open house and were awaiting the arrival of his
father.
Since his
father, Hassan Farooqui, has taken a job in Franklin, Tenn., Aiman Farooqui
said he is “very likely to come here (to attend MTSU). I find the school very
interesting. It has what I need, plus it is close to where my dad works.”
Knoxville
Catholic junior Bailey Poteet, who said she plans to be a psychology major,
made MTSU her first college visit with her parents, Rhae Nell and Steve Poteet.
“I like it,” she
said of the campus visit. “I like how there’s people you can talk to (in the
departments).”
New York
City-based Shiloh, a not-for-profit Christian organization dedicated to
equipping at-risk youth with tools to build hope, brought eight students to
MTSU. They are touring other campuses as well.
Clippard said the schedule provided a mixture of
information about MTSU, educational events and fun activities. Lunch was
provided and optional tours included campus and housing, mass communication,
the aerospace air-traffic control lab and nursing. Other activities include a
mad science event, a mock trial demonstration and Honors College tours.
The Honors
College offers lots of advantages to students and their families, Clippard
added. It fosters the academic excellence and nurturing environment of a small,
select, private, liberal-arts college within the setting of a major university.
The free exchange of ideas and the opportunity to learn from one another in
small classes taught by expert faculty make the Honors College experience rich
and meaningful.
For more
information, email Laura.Clippard@mtsu.edu
or call 615-898-5464.
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