JACKSON, Tenn. — Jackson State Community College freshman
Rachel Leach and alumnus Christopher “Chris” Mugabi can’t wait to continue
their college careers at MTSU in 2014.
Leach, 18, of Pinson, Tenn., is on fire for MTSU, and has
been ever since her senior year at Chester County High School. For the Oct. 22
MTSU “True Blue Tour” visit to Jackson, Tenn., she wore an MTSU sweatshirt and
exhibited a special glow any time MTSU was mentioned.
Jackson was the final stop on the six-city statewide tour in
which MTSU President Sidney A. McPhee, top administrators and key personnel
take to the road to recruit prospective students.
“I’m so excited about MTSU,” Leach said while enjoying the
“True Blue Tour” festivities at the Jackson Country Club with her parents,
Cindy and Thomas Leach.
“We hear a lot about it (MTSU),” her father said. “She’s
ready to go.”
MTSU having a speech pathology program and many student activities
— especially Blue Raider football games and the Baptist Student Union — is why
she is so gung-ho about coming to MTSU next fall.
Elizabeth Smith, coordinator of the MTSU
Speech-Language-Hearing Clinic, mapped out a path and told Leach that she could
transfer to MTSU with 41 credit hours, and that’s what she plans to do.
“I’m so excited. I’m counting the days,” Leach said.
Mugabi, 25, of Jackson, Tenn., is a native of Uganda who
graduated from Jackson State in May. He’s just as passionate about coming to
Murfreesboro and MTSU.
“MTSU has tremendous diversity and multicultural events,” he
said. “I’d like to enroll myself in a bigger place, with opportunities where I
can express myself.”
At Jackson State, Mugabi was Student Government Association
president. He met and became friends with former MTSU SGA President Coby
Sherlock, who “recommended I come (to MTSU),” Mugabi said.
“I look at education as a priority for my life,” Mugabi
said, adding that he plans to study computer information systems and earn a
minor in business administration.
Mugabi said he wants to get involved with the Center for
Student Involvement and Leadership.
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