[267] MTSU Will Be Closed Jan. 17 for Martin Luther King Jr. Holiday

Release date: Jan. 13, 2011

News & Public Affairs contact: Randy Weiler, 615-898-5616 or jweiler@mtsu.edu


MTSU Will Be Closed Jan. 17 for Martin Luther King Jr. Holiday

(MURFREESBORO) — MTSU will be closed Monday, Jan. 17, for the Martin Luther King Jr. federal holiday, university officials said.
No classes will be held and no offices will be open. University classes will resume Tuesday, Jan. 18. All offices will be open from 8 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. that day.
Saturday, Jan. 15, classes will be held, an MTSU official said.
The James E. Walker Library will be closed Sunday and Monday, reopening at 7:30 a.m. Tuesday. It will be open from 7:30 a.m. to 5 p.m. Friday and from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. Saturday.
The Student Health, Wellness and Recreation Center will be closed Saturday through Monday, reopening at 6 a.m. Tuesday. It will be open from 6 a.m. to 8 p.m. Friday. The Campus Pharmacy, which will be closed all weekend, will reopen at 8 a.m. Tuesday. Friday’s hours of operation are 8 a.m. to 4 p.m., with the drive-through open until 4:30.

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Founded in 1911, Middle Tennessee State University is a Tennessee Board of Regents institution located in Murfreesboro and is the state’s largest public undergraduate institution. MTSU now boasts one of the nation’s first master’s degree programs in horse science, and the Council of Graduate Schools in Washington, D.C., acclaims MTSU’s Master of Science in Professional Science degree — the only one in Tennessee — as a model program. MTSU recently unveiled three new doctoral degrees in the sciences.

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