Decision will then go to MTSU president for
consideration
MURFREESBORO — The MTSU
Forrest Hall task force will meet Thursday, April 14, at which it will discuss
making a recommendation to the university’s president regarding a possible name
change to the ROTC building on campus.
The meeting of the
17-member task force will begin at 6:30 p.m. Thursday in the MT Center, located
inside the Sam H. Ingram Building at 2269 Middle Tennessee Blvd. A
searchable campus parking map is available at http://tinyurl.com/MTSUParkingMap.
Seating will be limited
and those planning to attend are reminded of the ongoing construction along
Middle Tennessee Boulevard.
The university announced last
summer 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.
Thursday’s meeting
follows three previous meetings in which input from the public was received.
There will be no public comment at Thursday’s meeting, which is strictly for
task force deliberations, according to task force chairman and MTSU professor
Derek Frisby, a Civil War historian and faculty member in the Global Studies
and Cultural Geography department.
MTSU President Sidney A.
McPhee asked the panel to recommend by this month 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 Tennessee Historical
Commission would have to give approval as well.
For more information
about the task force, including a list of its members, visit http://www.mtsu.edu/forresthall.
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