Colleges
of Business, Education, Mass Comm hold True Blue Experience Days
MURFREESBORO — Zac
Miller, Jacob Rex and others were impressed by the MTSU College of Mass
Communication’s facilities and technology during the True Blue Experience Day
Friday (Jan. 30) on campus.
Strong impressions made by veteran College of Education
faculty members on Allison Carbaugh may have applied the finishing touches to
recruiting the Farragut, Tennessee, resident to the Murfreesboro university.
And Friendship Christian School senior Evan Hemontolor had
high praise for he Jones College of Business and its new Dale Carnegie program
to build people skills.
More than 60 prospective students and nearly 90 people
altogether attended the final True Blue Experience Day for the 2014-15 academic
year, giving high school students and their parents an opportunity for a more
in-depth campus visit.
The potential students met deans, faculty members, advisers
and other academic personnel; they talked to admissions and financial aid
personnel; they visited classes and laboratories (including Mass Comm’s
impressive $1.8 million mobile production truck); some took a campus tour; and
they gained a hint of university life.
Rex, who is from Baneberry, Tennessee, in Jefferson County,
and Miller, who is from Greeneville, Tennessee, were first in their group to
sit in the two anchor chairs in Mass Comm’s Center for Innovation in Media’s
“green room,” where MTSU students learn the ropes of broadcast news for student-run
television station MT10.
Rex, who already works part-time for the Standard-Banner weekly
newspaper in Jefferson City, said he has been accepted to MTSU and recently
applied for housing.
“I’m pretty sure I’m going to come here,” he said, adding he
plans to major in journalism to pursue a media career. He attended with his
father, Steve Rex.
Miller, who visited MTSU several months ago, was impressed
by MTSU’s newsroom. He visited with his parents, Johnny and Kim Miller.
Carbaugh, visiting along with her father, Steve, said she
“loved the classrooms. They seem designed toward a smaller classroom, and the
entire (College of Education) building is very nicely designed.” She and other
prospective students met Dean Lana Seivers in the college’s conference room.
Carbaugh said hearing from early childhood education
professor Willis Means and Educational Leadership faculty members Heather
Dillard and Nancy Caukin made “me want to get out of high school now because
they knew what they were doing, made it interesting and are passionate about
education.”
Prospective students visiting the Jennings A. Jones College
of Business in the Business and Aerospace Building met Dean David Urban and
heard an overview of the college; they interacted with a panel of current
students and young alumni; and attended a microeconomics course required of all
students in the college.
“The Carnegie program helps you make connections with people
and offers several leadership skills,” said Evan Hemontolor, who lives in Lebanon,
Tennessee, and was joined by his mother, Medana Hemontolor.
Evan Hemontolor enjoyed a panel of young alumni “who were
good at answering questions and made you want to attend MTSU,” he said.
The Jones College of Business departments include accounting,
business communication and entrepreneurship, computer information systems,
economics and finance and management and marketing. To learn about the
college’s various programs, visit http://www.mtsu.edu/business/programs.php.
The College of Education’s departments include elementary
and special education and the Womack Educational Leadership. For its programs,
visit http://www.mtsu.edu/education/programs.php.
Under the leadership of Dean Ken Paulson, Mass Comm houses
the departments of electronic media communication, journalism and recording
industry. For the various programs, visit http://www.mtsu.edu/masscomm/programs.php.
Melinda Thomas, director of undergraduate recruitment,
shared with attendees about the MTSU Student Success Advantage and the “Graduate
in Four and Get More” program, both announced in 2014 to help reduce the
financial burden of tuition. For more information, visit http://www.mtsu.edu/student-success-advantage/.
For information on upcoming admissions events and to
pre-register, visit www.mtsu.edu/rsvp.
Admissions also conducts daily campus tours. For more
information, call 615-898-5670 or email tours@mtsu.edu.
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