Monday, September 14, 2009

[083] MTSU Hosts Tennessee Louis Stokes Alliance for Minority Participation Quarterly Meeting Friday at Foundation House

Release date: Sept. 10, 2009


News & Public Affairs contact: Randy Weiler, 615-898-2919 or jweiler@mtsu.edu
MTSU TLSAMP contact: Mimi Thomas, 615-898-5311 or mthomas@mtsu.edu


MTSU Hosts Tennessee Louis Stokes Alliance for Minority
Participation Quarterly Meeting Friday at Foundation House


(MURFREESBORO) — Representatives from MTSU and five other colleges and universities from across the state will gather Friday at the MTSU Foundation House, 324 W. Thompson Lane, for a quarterly meeting of the Tennessee Louis Stokes Alliance for Minority Participation, or TLSAMP.
Students and administrators from the University of Tennessee-Knoxville, Vanderbilt University, Tennessee State University, University of Memphis and LeMoyne-Owen College in Memphis will join MTSU participants in attending the meeting, which starts at 10 a.m.
Vincent Windrow, director of Intercultural and Diversity Affairs at MTSU, will bring opening remarks, which will be followed by MTSU TLSAMP students “talking about their involvement,” said Dr. Tom Cheatham, dean of the College of Basic and Applied Sciences and principal investigator of the MTSU program.
Dr. Lonnie Sharpe Jr., TSU TLSAMP co-PI and chair of the U.S. Department of Energy-sponsored Massie Chair of Excellence at TSU, will conduct the meeting.
All six participating schools are in the second of a five-year, $3.5 million-funded program. All were part of the original five-year, $3.5 million program (2003-08).
According to the MTSU TLSAMP Web site (mtsu.edu/tlsamp), the goal of TLSAMP is to increase the number of underrepresented students in science, technology, engineering and mathematics at MTSU by at least 100 percent within a five-year period.
For more information about MTSU’s program, call Mimi Thomas, MTSU TLSAMP director, at 615-898-5311 or e-mail mthomas@mtsu.edu.

For MTSU news and information, go to mtsunews.com.

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Media welcomed. (Arrive by 9:30 a.m. to interview program participants.)

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