McPhee shares university’s successes,
international collaborations, programs
NASSAU,
Bahamas — The prime
minister of the Bahamas visited with MTSU President Sidney A. McPhee and men’s
basketball coach Kermit Davis just before the Blue Raiders played Thursday in
the first of three preseason exhibition games at the Commonwealth’s national
gymnasium.
Bahamian Prime Minister Perry G. Christie met with
McPhee, Davis and the team’s assistant coaches Wednesday night at the team’s
hotel. On Thursday, the president went to the prime minister’s office to confer
with Christie and several of the country’s top ministers.
Christie asked McPhee and Davis about the
university’s academic specialties, international collaborations and athletics
programs. The Blue Raiders were set to play three different Bahamian squads on
Thursday, Friday and Saturday during their seven-day trip to the Commonwealth.
“It was an honor to meet the prime minister and
share with him the accomplishments of MTSU’s faculty, students and
student-athletes,” McPhee said.
The prime minister also praised McPhee, a native of
the Bahamas, for his career in higher education, as well as MTSU’s recent
accolades for its Quest for Student Success initiative. A top priority for the
university, the initiative aims to improve student retention and graduation
rates in support of Gov. Bill Haslam’s emphasis on increasing the number of
Tennesseans with post-secondary credentials.
“It is important for us not only just to salute
him, but to do it in the context so that the country is aware and has reason to
manifest its pride in what he has achieved,” Christie said of McPhee.
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