MURFREESBORO
— Middle Tennessee State University’s upcoming summer 2014
commencement ceremony, set for Saturday, Aug. 9, will celebrate a lifetime of
educational achievement for more than 850 students.
The ceremony, which will begin at 10 a.m. Aug. 9 in
Hale Arena inside Murphy Center, will feature a special commencement address
from MTSU professor Scott Boyd, the 2013-14 president of the university's
Faculty Senate and a professor in the Department of Speech and Theatre in the College
of Liberal Arts.
On
Aug. 9, according to a report from the university’s Registrar’s Office, 853 students are set to graduate from
MTSU. Of that number, 641 are undergraduates and 212 are graduate students,
including 193 master’s candidates, 12 education-specialist degree recipients
and seven doctoral candidates. One graduate student also will receive a
graduate certificate.
Candidates
from all nine of MTSU’s colleges — the College of Graduate Studies, Basic and
Applied Sciences, Jones College of Business, College of Education, College of
Behavioral and Health Sciences, College of Liberal Arts, College of Mass
Communication, the University College and the University Honors College — will
receive their degrees during the summer ceremony.
Continuing
renovations at Murphy Center aren’t expected to inconvenience students and
their families and friends Aug. 9, officials said. The Murphy Center
renovations, which include updated concessions and restrooms, a new HVAC
system, new arena lighting and a new roof, began in January and are set to be
completed this fall.
Speaker
Boyd, who earned his Master of Fine Arts degree in theatrical design and technical
production from the University of North Carolina at Greensboro, joined the MTSU
family in 2004 and is the head of the university’s theatre design program. He
has extensive design and technical production experience on the community,
educational and professional levels of theatre, including multiple projects
with New York City companies, and has acted as a consultant for many community,
educational and regional theaters across the Southeast.
Boyd
is a nine-time finalist for the First Night Nashville Theatre Award for
outstanding theater design and a three-time winner for his designs for “The
Tempest” and “The Tide Shall Cover the Earth.” He served as the resident
designer/technical director for the Nashville Children's Theatre for five years
and spent nine years on the faculty of Austin Peay State University before
joining MTSU’s faculty.
Students,
friends, families and community supporters who attend the Aug. 9 ceremony
should be aware that the event lasts about two hours and that graduating
students are required to stay for the entire ceremony.
Graduation
information — including maps and driving directions to Murphy Center,
instructions on watching the ceremonies via streaming video on commencement
day, cap-and-gown information and contacts for the Registrar’s Office — is
available online at http://www.mtsunews.com/graduation-info.
Live
streaming video of the summer 2014 commencement ceremony will start about 15
minutes before the ceremony begins.
MTSU Summer 2014 Commencement at a
Glance
Who: A projected 853 graduates* (641 undergraduates, 212
graduate students)
What: 2014 MTSU Summer Commencement
ceremony
When: 10 a.m. Saturday, Aug. 9
Where: Hale Arena inside Murphy Center on
the MTSU campus
Commencement speaker: Professor Scott Boyd, theatre
professor and 2013-14 president of the MTSU Faculty Senate.
*— Approximate numbers as of Aug.
1, 2014.
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