MURFREESBORO — Do you know and love a Moore County student currently in their senior year at Middle Tennessee State University (MTSU) in Murfreesboro? Then circle this Saturday, August 10 on your calendar as the Murphy Center will once again host thousands of proud family, friends and supporters to celebrate more than 770 new graduates receiving their degrees during the 2024 summer commencement.
The ceremony will begin at 9 a.m. in Hale Arena inside Murphy Center located at 2650 Middle Tennessee Boulevard. Graduation is open to the public and the event also will stream live at mtsu.edu/live and on the university’s Facebook channel.
Of the 772 students set to graduate in the ceremony, 541 are undergraduates and 231 are graduate students, including 184 master’s candidates, nine education-specialist recipients and 38 doctoral candidates. Five graduate students will be receiving graduate certificates, according to the Registrar’s Office.
The newest Blue Raider alumni and their supporters will hear congratulatory remarks from MTSU President Sidney A. McPhee and keynote remarks from Kari Neely, associate professor in the Department of World Languages, Literatures, and Cultures and immediate past president of the Faculty Senate. Neely teaches courses on the Arabic language, international graphic novels, and graphic novels about the Middle East. Her current research focuses on the construction of multilingual visual landscapes in comics set in the Middle East.
MTSU’s Aug. 10 summer commencement ceremony is expected to last about two hours. All graduating students must remain for the entire event.
A campus map with parking details for guests is available at http://bit.ly/MTSUParking. A seating chart of Murphy Center, including access for guests with mobility issues, is available at https://www.mtsu.edu/murphycenter/facilities/.
With the summer 2024 commencement ceremony, MTSU will have awarded more than 186,100 degrees to its students, including associate, bachelor’s, master’s, educational specialist and doctoral degrees, since its 1911 founding. •
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