[338] Bart Gordon Discusses Education On 'MTSU On The Record'

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: March 3, 2011
EDITORIAL CONTACT: Gina Logue, 615-898-5081

BART GORDON DISCUSSES EDUCATION ON ‘MTSU ON THE RECORD’
Former Congressman to be Honored for Education Record by ‘Boro City Schools

(MURFREESBORO) – Former Congressman Bart Gordon will be the guest on this week’s edition of “MTSU on the Record” with host Gina Logue at 8 a.m. this Sunday, March 6, on WMOT-FM (89.5 and wmot.org).
Gordon is a Murfreesboro native and MTSU alumnus who represented Tennessee’s Sixth Congressional District in the U.S. House of Representatives from 1985-2011. He will be honored at the Murfreesboro City Schools Foundation’s Excellence in Education Celebration slated for Friday, March 11, at Stones River Country Club.
To listen to previous programs, go to http://www.mtsu.edu/news/podcast/podcast2010.shtml. For more information about “MTSU on the Record,” contact Logue at 615-898-5081 or WMOT-FM at 615-898-2800.


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ATTENTION, MEDIA: For jpeg photos of Gilman Scholarship recipients Barbara Corley and Anna Yacovone, contact Gina Logue in the MTSU Office of News and Media Relations at 615-898-5081 or gklogue@mtsu.edu.


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. Recently, MTSU unveiled three new doctoral degrees in the sciences.