Wednesday, May 10, 2006

423 MTSU ANNOUNCES GRADUATES FOR SPRING 2006

County-by-County Listing of Spring 2006 Graduates Available Online May 10

(MURFREESBORO)—Beginning May 10, Middle Tennessee State University (MTSU) will release the names and hometowns of those students who graduated during the spring 2006 commencement ceremony, which was held Saturday, May 6, in Murphy Center on the MTSU campus.
More than 2,000 degree candidates graduated during the 94th spring commencement—a record number of graduates for a May commencement event. Moreover, of the 2,042 who graduated, 1,736 were undergraduates, 235 were master’s degree candidates, 67 were educational specialists (Ed.S.) candidates and four were Ph.D. candidates.
The May commencement featured dual ceremonies and dual speakers starting at 9 a.m. and 2 p.m. in Murphy Center. Candidates from the College of Graduate Studies, Jennings A. Jones College of Business, and College of Education and Behavioral Science received their degrees in the morning ceremony. That afternoon, degrees were conferred on candidates in the College of Basic and Applied Sciences, College of Liberal Arts, College of Mass Communication, and the College of Continuing Education and Distance Learning.
The Right Honorable Perry Gladstone Christie, current prime minister of The Commonwealth of The Bahamas, was the guest speaker for the 9 a.m. ceremony. Christie, who also serves as the minister of finance, was sworn in as the third PM of an independent Bahamas on May 3, 2002, following his triumph in a free general election.
Nashville Mayor Bill Purcell, now in his second term as mayor of the Metropolitan Government of Nashville, was the featured speaker for the 2 p.m. ceremony. First elected in 1999, then re-elected to a second mayoral term with a record-setting 84.8 percent of the vote, Purcell served as director of the Child and Family Policy Center at the Vanderbilt Institute of Public Policy Studies, a nationally recognized center, prior to becoming mayor.

HOW TO OBTAIN YOUR COUNTY’S STUDENT LIST: To obtain a list for editorial use of those students from your county who graduated during MTSU’s spring 2006 commencement, please access this information on the News and Public Affairs (NPA) Web site at www.mtsunews.com and click on the “MTSU Graduation Lists” link on the upper, left-hand side of the page.
Next, click on the “Spring” link, which will include an alphabetical, county-by-county listing of those MTSU students who graduated on May 6. ***Please note that this page also contains directions on how to download and

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