MURFREESBORO — Newly
hired MTSU faculty members have received their introduction to the offices and
departments that will serve them as the start of the academic year approaches.
More than 70 new faculty members were invited to the second
floor of the Student Union Tuesday, Aug. 18, where they visited table after table
of fellow employees armed with information that will help them navigate the
university infrastructure.
“We are very pleased to have such an impressive, diverse and
enthusiastic group of new faculty members this year,” said Newtona “Tina”
Johnson, interim vice provost for academic affairs.
Some of them shared their visions for assisting students
when they enter MTSU classrooms for the first time.
“I’m working on a version of ‘Uncle Vanya’ that I think will
be a little bit more accessible,” said assistant professor of theatre and dance
Halena Kays, referring to the classic play by Anton Chekhov.
Kevin Krahenbuhl, an assistant professor of educational
leadership, said he will focus on the relationship between teaching and
learning with an emphasis on cognitive science, the understanding of how the
brain functions in communicating and processing information.
“Based on the number of new faculty that attended this
morning’s very successful new faculty orientation, I believe our academic
departments and colleges have recruited an energetic and committed group of
educators,” said Johnson. “I wish our new colleagues the best as they embark in
their professional journey at MTSU.”
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