Friday, August 11, 2006

021 MTSU ANNOUNCES GRADUATES FOR SUMMER 2006

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: Aug. 11, 2006
CONTACT: News and Public Affairs, 615-898-2493

County-by-County Listing of Summer 2006 Graduates Available Online Aug. 11

(MURFREESBORO)—Beginning Aug. 11, Middle Tennessee State University (MTSU) will release the names and hometowns of those students who will graduate during the summer 2006 commencement ceremony, which will be held Saturday, Aug. 12, in Murphy Center on the MTSU campus.
More than 900 degree candidates will graduate during the 94th summer commencement. Of the term’s graduating class, 688 are undergraduates and 252 are from the College of Graduate Studies, including two graduate certificate recipients, as well as 226 master’s degrees, 17 educational specialists (Ed.S.) candidates and seven Ph.D. candidates.
The August commencement will feature Dr. Rebecca Fischer, interim chairwoman of the Department of Speech and Theatre and the current MTSU representative of the Tennessee Board of Regents’ Faculty Subcouncil, delivering the commencement address. Following Fischer’s opening remarks, candidates from the College of Graduate Studies, Jennings A. Jones College of Business, and College of Education and Behavioral Science, College of Basic and Applied Sciences, College of Liberal Arts, College of Mass Communication, and the College of Continuing Education and Distance Learning will be conferred with their degrees.

 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 “Summer” link, which will include an alphabetical, county-by-county listing of those MTSU students who graduated on Aug. 12.
***Please note that this Web page also contains directions on how to download and save your county’s list for editorial use in your publication.

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