MURFREESBORO
— Middle Tennessee State University’s upcoming summer 2015 commencement
ceremony, set for Saturday, Aug. 8, will celebrate a lifetime of educational achievement
for almost 900 students.
The ceremony, which will begin at 10 a.m. Aug. 8 in
Hale Arena inside Murphy Center, will feature a special commencement address
from MTSU professor William Canak, the 2014-15 president of the university's
Faculty Senate and a professor in the Department of Sociology and Anthropology
in the College of Liberal Arts.
On Aug.
8, according to a report from the university’s Registrar’s Office, 896 students are set to graduate from
MTSU. Of that number, 672 are undergraduates and 224 are graduate students,
including 208 master’s candidates, five education-specialist degree recipients
and 11 doctoral candidates. One graduate student also will receive a graduate
certificate.
Candidates
from all nine of MTSU’s colleges — the College of Graduate Studies, Basic and
Applied Sciences, Jones College of Business, College of Education, College of
Behavioral and Health Sciences, College of Liberal Arts, College of Mass
Communication, the University College and the University Honors College — will
receive their degrees during the summer ceremony.
MTSU’s
commencement ceremonies are always free and open to the public; a printable
campus map with parking details is available at http://tinyurl.com/MTSUParking14-15. Friends, families and
supporters who can’t attend in person can watch the Aug. 8 ceremony live online
via streaming video.
You can
visit http://ow.ly/rwxOz for a link
to the video feed and more details. Be aware that the video feed will not be
live until about 9:45 a.m. Aug. 8.
Speaker Canak,
who earned his doctorate in sociology
from the University of Wisconsin–Madison, was a National Institute of Mental
Health post-doctoral fellow at Duke University and member of the faculties
of Brown, Tulane and Loyola universities before joining the MTSU faculty in
1994.
He was a Fulbright Regional Research Fellow to
Argentina in 1988, founded the Tennessee
Employment Relations Research Association in 1998 and has been an
executive board member of the national Labor
and Employment Relations Association since 2006. Canak’s Latin
America-focused research and his research on American labor law and industrial
relations have been published in numerous professional journals, and his most recent
research has focused on state wage and hour laws, employment practices that
violate those laws, and the fiscal impact on state revenues.
Students,
friends, families and community supporters who attend the Aug. 8 ceremony
should be aware that the event could last more than two hours. Graduating
students are required to stay for the entire ceremony.
Organizers
are encouraging guests to arrive early at Murphy Center and to move toward the center
seats in each section, instead of remaining at the end of the aisles, to ensure
that everyone can have a comfortable seat to enjoy the celebration.
Graduation
information — including maps and driving directions to Murphy Center,
instructions on watching the ceremonies via streaming video on commencement
day, cap-and-gown information and contacts for the Registrar’s Office — is
available online at http://www.mtsunews.com/graduation-info.
The
university’s 2015-16 academic year begins Monday, Aug. 24, with the first
official day of fall 2015 semester classes. University Convocation, a public
ceremony welcoming new freshmen into the MTSU family, is set for Sunday, Aug.
24, at 2 p.m. in Murphy Center.
MTSU Summer 2015 Commencement at a
Glance
Who: A projected 896 graduates* (672 undergraduates, 224
graduate students)
What: 2015 MTSU Summer Commencement
ceremony
When: Saturday, Aug. 8
Where: Hale Arena inside Murphy Center on
the MTSU campus
Commencement speaker: Dr. William Canak, sociology professor and 2014-15
president of the MTSU Faculty Senate.
*— Approximate numbers as of July
30, 2015.
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