MURFREESBORO
— A trio of leaders unique in their fields will help 2,375 spring 2016
MTSU graduates celebrate reaching their educational goals in three ceremonies
set Friday and Saturday, May 6 and 7.
Tennessee State Historian Carroll Van West,
Nashville Mayor Megan Barry and Home Box Office network division president Kary
Antholis are the guest speakers for this spring’s commencement ceremonies
inside the university’s Murphy Center.
West, a longtime MTSU professor and director of the
university’s Center for Historic Preservation, will address the university’s first
separate ceremony for students earning their doctorate, master’s and education
specialist degrees. The College of Graduate Studies event is scheduled for 3
p.m. May 6.
Barry, who is the first woman and the first Metro
Council member elected Nashville mayor, is the guest speaker for the
university’s 9 a.m. undergraduate commencement ceremony May 7.
Antholis, who is president of HBO Miniseries and
Cinemas Programming, will speak at the 2 p.m. May 7 undergraduate ceremony.
Students
from the College of Basic and Applied Sciences, the Jones College of Business,
the College of Education, and the College of Media and Entertainment will
receive their degrees in the May 7 morning ceremony.
Students
in the College of Behavioral and Health Sciences, College of Liberal Arts, and
the University College will receive their degrees in the May 7 afternoon event.
MTSU’s
commencement ceremonies are always free and open to the public. Friends,
families and supporters who can’t attend in person can watch each ceremony live
online May 6 and 7 via streaming video.
The
live commencement coverage will begin about 15 minutes before each ceremony
starts; visit http://ow.ly/rwxOz for details
about the video feed.
MTSU’s
Registrar’s Office reported this week that 2,030 of the 2,375 students set to receive
their degrees May 7 are undergraduates, while 345 students will be presented
with graduate degrees May 6, including 312 master’s candidates, 16
education-specialist degree recipients and 17 doctoral candidates. Three
graduate students also will receive graduate certificates.
Graduate ceremony speaker West, a history
department faculty member since 1985, teaches courses in architectural history,
historic preservation, and state and local history. He received the MTSU
Foundation’s 2015 Career Achievement Award, considered the pinnacle of
recognition for the university’s finest professors, last August.
West has served as director at the Center for
Historic Preservation at MTSU and the Tennessee Civil War National Heritage
Area since 2002. He also serves as co-chair of the Tennessee Civil War
Sesquicentennial Commission and as a Tennessee representative on the National
Board of Advisors of National Trust for Historic Preservation. In addition,
West has a decades-long career of fieldwork on sites across the South and West,
where he focuses on 19th- and 20th-century history as well as architecture and
material culture.
You can find more details on the College of
Graduate Studies’ May 6 commencement ceremony at http://ow.ly/YgVeI.
Undergraduate morning speaker Barry won the
Nashville mayoral race in a September 2015 runoff election after serving two
terms as an at-large Metro Council member. A 25-year resident of the city, she
formerly worked as an ethics compliance officer and consultant in the
telecommunications and health care sectors.
She is focusing as mayor on Metro Nashville public
schools’ educational outcomes, a state and regional transportation partnership,
affordable housing and economic growth. Barry also has convened the first of
multiple planned youth violence summits to help the community address issues
related to teen and young adult violence.
Undergrad afternoon speaker Antholis first joined
HBO in 1992 as director of documentary programming, then left in 1994 to
produce and direct the Oscar- and Emmy-winning documentary “One Survivor
Remembers” about Holocaust survivor Gerda Weissmann Klein. Returning to HBO in
1997, he became senior vice president of HBO Films & Miniseries, serving as
program executive for the multiple Emmy-winning miniseries “Angels in America”
and others.
His programming credits at HBO and Cinemax include
the adaptation of J.K. Rowling’s bestselling novel “The Casual Vacancy,” the Cinemax original series “The Knick,” and
the award-winning miniseries “Mildred Pierce” and “John Adams.” A former
practicing attorney and history teacher, Antholis’ current projects include
HBO’s adaptation of the BBC miniseries “Criminal Justice” and Cinemax’s “Strike
Back” and “Banshee” series.
MTSU’s
Graduation Committee noted that all graduating students must stay for their
entire commencement ceremony. Each ceremony may last up to two hours.
Guests
attending each ceremony are being asked to arrive early to ease traffic
congestion around Murphy Center and to help ensure comfortable seating for
everyone inside Hale Arena. Motorists should avoid Middle Tennessee Boulevard
because of ongoing construction; route suggestions are available at http://www.mtsunews.com/graduation-info.
Graduation
information — including links to maps and driving directions to MTSU,
cap-and-gown information, official photographs and contacts for the Registrar’s
Office — is available anytime at http://www.mtsunews.com/graduation-info.
No comments:
Post a Comment