MURFREESBORO — MTSU’s College of Liberal Arts
has added three new members — all university alumni — to its community advisory
board.
The
newest additions to the Friends of Liberal Arts Board are Dickson County
attorney Meagan Frazier, Stones River National Battlefield operations chief Gib
Backlund and Nashville attorney Michael Dagley.
The
Friends of Liberal Arts Board cultivates and maintains relationships with
community, state and national leaders; promotes the achievements of MTSU’s
liberal arts faculty and students as well as overall public image; exposes
students to various career options; serves as mentors to those students; and
helps pursue external funding.
New board
member Frazier, who lives in Burns, Tennessee, is a cum laude graduate of MTSU
who majored in public relations and minored in political science and marketing.
She is a graduate of the Nashville School of Law and joined the government
relations firm of Smith Harris & Carr in 2003, becoming a partner in 2008.
Frazier
serves the community in many ways, including her leadership positions in both
the Tennessee chapter and the national ALS Association, which fight Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis, or Lou
Gehrig’s Disease; the Tennessee CASA Association, which advocates for abused
and neglected children; and the Tennessee Lobbyists Association and Tennessee
Bar Association, just to name a few.
New
member Backlund has worked at Stones River National Battlefield since 1992,
helping the popular park nearly double in size, renovate its visitor center,
build an even more accessible new entrance and tour road, develop and install
new exhibits and rehabilitate the area landscape.
A native
of Minnesota, Backlund earned his Bachelor of Arts in English and Humanities at
the University of Minnesota before joining the National Park Service as an aide
at Cumberland Gap National Historic Park and working at Mammoth Cave, Glacier
National Park and Cape Hatteras. He earned his master’s degree in history at
MTSU, focusing on the Cold War and Mission 66, a 10-year program to improve the
National Park Service that was completed in 1966, and is an adjunct professor
of history at MTSU.
New board
member Dagley, who is a partner in the
Nashville law firm of Bass, Berry & Sims, graduated magna cum laude from
MTSU in 1978 with a Bachelor of Arts in history and earned his law degree from
Vanderbilt University in 1981. During his time at MTSU, he was president of the
university Honors Council as well as a member of the MTSU Debate Hall of Fame.
During his 33-year legal career, Dagley has
specialized in high-stakes litigation involving many different industries. He’s
most recently worked on behalf of hospital and health care systems with
software failures and has defended numerous Nashville health care companies on
contractual disputes as well as advising on health care fraud, False Claims Act
matters and government investigations.
The
College of Liberal Arts at MTSU comprises 10 departments with more than 300
faculty members and 2,800 students majoring in fields that encompass the arts,
humanities and social sciences to earn bachelor’s, master’s and doctoral
degrees. MTSU’s General Education Program also is chiefly located within the
college, so almost every student who attends MTSU will have a liberal arts
class.
In
addition to the academic departments, MTSU’s College of Liberal Arts houses
several nationally recognized organizations, including The Center for Historic
Preservation, the Albert Gore Research Center, the University Writing Center,
the Governor's School for the Arts, and the Forensic Institute for Research and
Education.
For more
information about the College of Liberal Arts at MTSU, please visit http://www.mtsu.edu/liberalarts.
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