University panel to hear public feedback about
building name
MURFREESBORO — MTSU’s
Forrest Hall task force will host an off-campus open forum later this month to
get more feedback about whether to change the name of the building that houses
the university’s ROTC program.
Task force chairman Derek
Frisby, who heads the 17-member panel of students, faculty, alumni and
community members, said the second public forum will be from 6:30 to 8:30 p.m. Wednesday,
Feb. 24, at the Lane Agri-Park, 315 John R. Rice Blvd. in Murfreesboro.
Frisby, a Civil War
historian and faculty member in the Global Studies and Cultural Geography
department, said it was important for the task force to host an off-campus
forum to get feedback from the wider community. The first forum was held Dec. 1
at the university’s Student Union Building.
The university announced
in June 2015 that it would engage the community on the name of the campus
building that houses MTSU’s Army Reserve Officer Training Corps program and is
named after Confederate Gen. Nathan Bedford Forrest.
MTSU President Sidney A.
McPhee asked the panel to recommend by April whether the building should be
renamed; retain the name but with added historical perspective; or recommend
that no action or change is warranted. The Tennessee Board of Regents would
have to approve any recommended name change and the university is also
researching whether other state authorities would have to give approval as
well.
Task force meetings are
open to the public. For more information about the task force, visit http://www.mtsu.edu/forresthall.
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