Maintenance staff at Middle Tennessee State University will spend the next few weeks removing signs about social distancing and mask requirements. MTSU has announced that, effective immediately, face coverings are no longer required, and there are few capacity limits.
Bias In Basketball Refs? MTSU Study Finds Uneven Foul Calling
Listen A new study from Middle Tennessee State University suggests members of women’s basketball teams at historically black colleges and universities are disproportionately penalized. Jessica Kern, women’s basketball coach at Tennessee State University, says the study highlights a need for greater cultural awareness in college athletics. Kern refers to the dribble-drive offense — “play downhill, attack […]
MTSU Trains Teachers On How To Guide Students During Solar Eclipse
Listen Unlike in Davidson County, schools in Rutherford will be in session on Monday, Aug. 21. So MTSU is helping teachers in Murfreesboro and surrounding areas prepare their students for the total solar eclipse. The university’s astronomy department has created lesson plans for K-12 teachers. One lesson has students model the distances between the earth, […]
Why Did MTSU Enrollment Drop So Suddenly? President Says Students Can’t Pay
Middle Tennessee State University is blaming a big enrollment drop-off on students’ ability to pay. While admission figures are only just now made final, president Sidney McPhee says the nearly five percent drop occurred just before the start of the semester.
MTSU Enrollment Decline Causes Funding Cuts, Worries About Tennessee Promise
MTSU’s decline in enrollment has professors worrying this is foresight into the future, and it has administrators cutting millions from the academic budget.
MTSU President To Faculty: Start Caring About Grad Rates Or ‘You’re Not Going To Have A Job’
MTSU president Sidney McPhee’s frank speech at a Friday faculty meeting is still ringing in the ears of professors and campus staff.
Is Tennessee’s Rising Unemployment Rate A Data Glitch?
Tennessee’s top labor economists are having a hard time explaining what’s going on with the state’s unemployment rate. It continues to rise even as the number of people filing for unemployment benefits drops.
State Lawmakers Require Meningitis Vaccine for College Freshmen
Almost all incoming freshman will have to get one more vaccination to enroll in Tennessee’s public universities this fall. The immunization will fight bacterial meningitis, a sometimes deadly disease which has been found to spread easily in the close quarters of college dormitories.
Democrats Help Pass College ID Voter Law in Senate
Despite some opposition from his own party yesterday, a Murfreesboro Republican won passage of a measure that would make college IDs sufficient forms of voter identification.
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