MURFREESBORO — Johnson City will be the second stop on
the statewide Middle Tennessee State University True Blue Tour to recruit
outstanding students from Washington, Sullivan, Carter and surrounding
counties.
MTSU will hold
the True Blue Tour reception for all area high school and potential transfer students
and their families from 6 to 8 p.m. EDT Monday, Sept. 22, in The Millennium
Center, 2001 Millennium Plaza, in Johnson City. To register in advance, visit www.mtsu.edu/rsvp.
For a map and directions, visit http://tinyurl.com/mar46zj.
And while it will
be physically impossible to transport a 257,000-square-foot structure down
Interstate 24 by bus, the recently opened $147 million Science Building will be
at the forefront of President Sidney A. McPhee’s agenda when talking to
prospective students, their parents or guardians and alumni.
The event — where
deans and academic personnel from admissions and other academic departments
share the many available options and answer questions — also will feature
interactive displays including the 40-foot, $1.4 million Electronic Media Communication
mobile production truck and Concrete Industry Management’s mold to make
concrete coasters by hand. The School of Music will provide a music CD at their
table.
The Science
Building, which officially will be dedicated in mid-October during Homecoming
Week, and major changes regarding future scholarship opportunities for MTSU
students will top McPhee’s remarks.
“The new Science
Building is critical to our continuing efforts to provide Tennessee with
graduates ready to succeed in today’s workforce,” McPhee said. “The building is
already helping MTSU create more science graduates to fill high-tech jobs,
prepare more teachers for math and science in K-12 schools and enhance the
economy of our state and region. It immediately makes MTSU more competitive for
research projects, science scholarship and entrepreneurial efforts.”
MTSU hopes to boost recruitment of incoming freshmen and
transfer students with a recent change to scholarship eligibility requirements
intended to help more students ease the burden of rising tuition.
To attract more
incoming freshmen, MTSU is adjusting ACT requirements to offer scholarships to
more high school students eligible to take University Honors College classes
and who complete their MTSU applications and meet the Dec. 1 priority deadline
for applying.
For prospective
students who meet the application requirements and deadline, five major
scholarships will be guaranteed with annual scholarship amounts ranging from
$2,000 to $6,000. The required high school GPA remains 3.5.
McPhee again will
be emphasizing the MTSU Quest for Student Success Initiative, which has a goal
of reaching a minimum graduation rate of 62 percent by 2020. The university
recently hired a new vice provost for student success. MTSU is also hiring 50
new advisers who will be housed in individual colleges and have the latest
software to help shepherd students through their academic endeavors.
MTSU will travel to Knoxville Sept. 23, Nashville Sept. 30,
Memphis Oct. 22 and Jackson Oct. 23 for the remaining True Blue Tour dates. The
tour began Sept. 17 in Chattanooga.
Prospective students have multiple opportunities for a
firsthand look at campus.
Fall Preview Days will be held Sept. 27 and Nov. 1. True
Blue Experience Days will be held Oct. 17 for prospective students in the
College of Basic and Applied Sciences; Jan. 23, 2015, for prospective students
in the Colleges of Behavioral and Health Sciences and Liberal Arts; and Jan. 30
for prospective students in the Colleges of Mass Communication, Business and
Education. To register, visit www.mtsu.edu/rsvp.
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Media welcomed.
MTSU True Blue Tour at a glance
Who: MTSU deans,
academic personnel and President Sidney A. McPhee
What: True Blue
Tour, recruiting prospective students from Johnson City, Kingsport, Bristol,
Elizabethton and other upper East Tennessee and Southwest Virginia towns and
communities
When: 6 to 8 p.m.
EDT Monday, Sept. 22, student reception
Where: The
Millennium Center, 2001 Millennium Plaza
Why: In an effort
to attract future students to the MTSU campus in Murfreesboro, university
officials travel by bus, automobile and airplane 300 miles to “bring” the
campus — 150 academic programs and much more — to Johnson City.
Etc.: All public,
private, homeschool and potential transfer students from upper East Tennessee
and Southwest Virginia are welcome. …
Attendees will be treated to interactive displays including the
Electronic Media Communication’s 40-foot, $1.4 million mobile production lab —
aka “The Truck” — Concrete Industry Management’s mold to make concrete coasters
by hand, an MTSU School of Music CD and more.
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