Decision will then go to MTSU president for
consideration
MURFREESBORO — The MTSU Forrest Hall task force will hold its final meeting Tuesday,
April 19, at which it will decide its 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. Tuesday 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.
The meeting is open to the public. 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.
Tuesday’s meeting follows an April 14 meeting at the
same location at which task force members deliberated about the issue. Prior to
that, three previous meetings were held at which public input was received.
There will be no public comment at Tuesday's meeting, which is strictly for
task force deliberations to come to a decision.
The task force, which is made up of students,
faculty, alumni and community representatives, is chaired by 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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