MTSU
faculty and staff shared efforts to increase student civic involvement, improve
student graduation rates and promote the university’s Center for Popular Music with
listeners of WGNS radio during the Nov. 17 “Action Line” program with veteran
host Bart Walker.
The live program was
broadcast on FM 100.5, 101.9 and AM 1450 from the WGNS studio in downtown
Murfreesboro. If you missed it, you can listen to a podcast of the show here.
Guests included:
• Dr. Mary Evins,
MTSU history professor and coordinator for the American Democracy Project,
discussed efforts to get college students more engaged in the democratic
process. Evins said one of the project’s goals is to increase “students’ growth
in awareness of American heritage and their personal responsibilities in a
participatory democracy.” Learn more about the project here.
• Dr. Richard
“Rick” Sluder, vice provost for Student Success, and Vincent Windrow,
assistant vice provost for Student Success, discussed MTSU’s ongoing efforts to
help students earn their degrees. Sluder joined MTSU Sept. 15 as part of MTSU’s
“Quest for Student Success” initiative, a series of reforms launched in October
2013 to better help students stay on track academically and complete their
degrees. Windrow is assisting in this effort to make sure that students are
aware of the many resources available to help them stay on track to graduate.
Learn more here.
• Dr. Greg Reish (REESH),
director of the Center for Popular Music at MTSU, discusses his goals after
taking over as center director July 1. He is writing a book about American
vernacular guitar styles from the mid-19th century through bluegrass and
country music of the 1940s. In addition, Reish is a professor of musicology in
the MTSU School of Music and an accomplished singer and instrumentalist on
guitar, banjo, fiddle, mandolin, dulcimer and ukulele. Learn more here.
Students, faculty and
staff interested in being a guest on WGNS to promote their MTSU-related
activities should contact Jimmy Hart, director of News and Media Relations, at
615-898-5131 or via email at jimmy.hart@mtsu.edu.
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