Archive | Students RSS feed for this archive

MTSU Experience at Bonnaroo ‘not playtime for them’

Middle Tennessee State University’s chief academic officer came to the 2022 Bonnaroo Music and Arts Festival to see for himself how students were learning and working at one of the world’s premier live-music experiences that also doubles as a university classroom.

Continue Reading

MTSU Road Trip Class writes stories about real people and real communities

For nine out of the last ten years, Middle Tennessee State University’s Journalism and Strategic Media students have participated in an annual road trip across Tennessee. MTSU Professor and veteran journalist Leon Alligood gives a first-hand account of this year’s trip to Winchester, Tenn.

Continue Reading

New ‘XR Stage’ courses will turn MTSU students’ skills into media jobs worldwide

When an industry can change in what feels like the flash of a pixel, preparing to work in it may seem an adventure into a strange new future. Middle Tennessee State University’s Department of Media Arts is looking beyond graduation for its students by teaching them new ways to turn ideas into new realities on the screen.

Continue Reading

MTSU returns to the Grammys after COVID hiatus

True Blue returned to the Grammys in full force Friday, April 1, as Middle Tennessee State University resumed its annual pilgrimage to the music industry’s biggest showcase to celebrate alumni nominees and provide students career-building experiences.

Continue Reading

Aspiring student journalists launch Middle Tennessee News

The School of Journalism and Strategic Media has launched Middle Tennessee News (MTN) in order to bring an immersive, teaching hospital-style learning experience for students.

Continue Reading

Media students create university-wide mask campaign

A group of MTSU School of Journalism and Strategic Media students has seen firsthand this fall how public relations and advertising campaigns can help make a lifesaving difference to their community. Knowing that their peers, and they, were aware of — and fatigued by — COVID-19 information as they prepared to return to campus in August for fall 2020 classes, the “Safe Return Campaign team,” […]

Continue Reading

M.F.A. Program conducts classes over Zoom using multi-iPhone-camera tools

Recording Arts and Technologies M.F.A. students excelled through a very challenging year of creative production despite restrictions imposed by COVID-19.

Continue Reading

Students win big at SEJC

Two student journalists from MTSU placed in the top 10 of the College Journalist of the Year competition sponsored by the Southeast Journalism Conference.  The organization’s annual meeting was held Feb. 13-15 in Hattiesburg, Mississippi, at the University of Southern Mississippi. Megan Cole placed second, winning $500, and Angele Latham placed eighth. This is the […]

Continue Reading

Faculty and former students again nab Grammy noms

College of Media and Entertainment graduates and former students are back in the headlines again with recognition for their music-industry work in multiple genres on the highest level: nominations for the 62nd annual Grammy Awards.

Continue Reading

PR students champion First Amendment with campaign

Dr. Hanna Park’s Public Relations 4740 class implemented a campaign fall semester to promote student knowledge, interest and engagement in the U.S. Constitution’s First Amendment.

Continue Reading

Students work 53rd CMA Awards’ red carpet, telecast

NASHVILLE, Tenn. — Thirteen students from MTSU’s Department of Media Arts honed their skills further recently by working as pre-show or telecast crew members for the 53rd annual Country Music Awards, one of the genre’s biggest events.

Continue Reading

“The Bonnaroo campus” again available to students

The Bonnaroo Music and Arts Festival in Manchester, Tennessee, served as a hands-on, outdoor classroom for College of Media and Entertainment students in 2019 for the sixth year in a row.

Continue Reading