MURFREESBORO — MTSU student, faculty and visiting
scholars will discuss whether the opportunities that higher education provides
are worth the debt it often requires at the 23nd annual Tennessee Undergraduate
Social Science Symposium Oct. 29-30.
With a
theme of “Worth Every Penny?: Debt, Education and Opportunity,” the two-day
research symposium inside MTSU’s James Union Building is free and open to the
public.
A searchable
campus map with parking notes is available at http://tinyurl.com/MTSUParking14-15.
This
year’s symposium features a Thursday, Oct. 30, keynote address from Dr. Joel Best,
co-author of “The Student Loan Mess:
How Good Intentions Created a Trillion-Dollar Problem,” at 9:40 a.m. in the
JUB’s Tennessee Room.
Best’s topic is “The Student Loan Mess: How It Got Here and Why It’s Not
Going Away.”
Other key
events include a Wednesday, Oct. 29, workshop and panel featuring Best and
including:
· Dr. Maria Edlin, assistant director
of MTSU’s Center for Economic Education.
· Jackie Morgan, senior economic and
education financial specialist for the Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta’s Nashville
office.
· Trina Wilson, assistant director of
the Office of Financial Aid at MTSU.
· Mallory Melton, academic adviser in
MTSU’s College of Liberal Arts and an MTSU alumna.
Student
research presentations are scheduled throughout both days of the symposium, and
their topics range from parking-lot littering to Native American language in
historical writings to media coverage of same-sex couple violence. The top
three undergrad papers will be announced and prizes awarded at 9:30 Thursday
morning.
Conducted
at MTSU since 1993, the event is modeled after a typical professional
conference and was designed to prompt students’ scientific study of human
interaction and encourage their professional growth as well as provide
opportunities for scholars to exchange ideas.
For more details
and a complete schedule, visit the symposium’s home page at http://www.mtsu.edu/soc/socsymp. You also
can contact Dr. Meredith Dye at 615-898-2690 or meredith.dye@mtsu.edu.
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