MURFREESBORO — Continuing
a busy season to attract new and transfer students for the 2015-16 academic
year and beyond, MTSU’s upcoming recruiting events include back-to-back True
Blue Experience Days.
They will be held Friday, Jan. 23, for prospective students
wanting to major in the Colleges of Liberal Arts and Behavioral and Health
Sciences and Friday, Jan. 30, for students wanting to major in the Colleges of
Business, Education and Mass Communication.
True Blue Experience Days offer potential students, their
parents and families an opportunity for an in-depth campus visit. They are able
to view campus facilities; meet deans, advisers, faculty and other academic
staff; talk to admissions and financial aid personnel; and gain a sense of
student life and the MTSU community.
The True Blue Experience Days run from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. and
start in the Student Union Building, 1768 MTSU Blvd. To pre-register for any of
the Office of Admissions special events this winter and spring, visit www.mtsu.edu/rsvp or call 615-898-5670.
To find parking and campus buildings, a printable campus map can be found at http://tinyurl.com/MTSUParking14-15.
For the Jan. 23 True Blue Experience Day, a two-hour block
of time will be set aside for “various opportunities that will be planned for
students to visit our departments and the majors, and get a feel of what’s
going on,” said Dean Terry Whiteside, who guides the College of Behavioral and
Health Sciences.
Departments within Whiteside’s college include criminal
justice administration, health and human performance, human sciences, the
School of Nursing, psychology and social work. He and department chairs will
formalize final plans.
The College of Liberal Arts departments “are excited to
share with prospective students and their parents the variety of options we
offer for study and preparation for a fulfilling career,” said Lucy Langworthy,
advising manager for the college.
“Students will get to attend classes in their areas of
interest and meet students and professors who will answer relevant questions,”
said Langworthy, who added that the visitors will also “get tours of our
facilities and see such space as the production area in theatre, observe
letterpress printing in art and visit rehearsal and performance halls in the
music department.”
Music faculty will also talk to students about which
concentrations of music are best for their career choice and will give them
pointers on how to prepare for an audition, Langworthy said. School of Music
audition dates include Saturday, Jan. 31; Monday, Feb. 16; and Saturday, Feb.
28. To learn more, visit http://www.mtsu.edu/music/
or call 615-898-2469.
In addition to music, other Liberal Arts departments include
art, English, foreign languages and literatures, history, philosophy, political
science, sociology and anthropology and speech and theatre. Mark Byrnes serves
as college dean.
For the Jan. 30 True Blue Experience Day, here are early
plans for the participating colleges:
• Education, which includes elementary and special
education, plans to take the students and family members to the renovated Ned
McWherter Learning Resources Center for most of the program, said Jim Rost,
advising manager in the college. Dean Lana Seivers will address the visitors.
Associate professor Willis Means will conduct a 30-minute interactive teaching
activity. The student teaching residency team will lead a 30-minute
teaching-specific activity. A tour of the College of Education Building will
include brief visits while classes are in session;
• Jones College of Business attendees will meet Dean David
Urban and interact with a panel of current students and young alumni, said Amie
Donahue, a college adviser. Once the panel ends, participants will join a
microeconomics course, which is required of all students in the college. From 9
to 10 a.m., two advisers with printed materials will be available at a table
provided by the admissions office in the Student Union Ballroom. Departments
include accounting, business communication and entrepreneurship, computer
information systems, economics and finance and management and marketing; and
• Mass Communication
Dean Ken Paulson said his college “plans
to incorporate an interactive media showcase into our program, offering
students the chance for hands-on experiences with video and photography, music
production and a range of digital media.” Departments include electronic media
communication, journalism and recording industry. Associated programs include
media study and media management, public relations, video and film production
and more.
The True Blue Experience Day for the College of Basic and
Applied Sciences was held Oct. 17.
Other special events include:
• The Monday, Feb. 16, University Honors College Presidents’
Day Open House, which is expected to attract about 700 people visiting from
10:30 a.m. to 4 p.m.; and
• Spring Preview Days scheduled for Saturday, March 21, and
Saturday, June 6.
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