UNIVERSITY NEWS Board of Trustees Sets Top Priorities For The Year

[SpaceRaider]

MTSU Board of Trustees Sets Top Priorities For The Year

(MURFREESBORO) Middle Tennessee State University’s Board of Trustees has identified the pursuit of a professional school as the first of four objectives that it feels should be the institution’s top priorities. During its quarterly meeting Tuesday, March 19, 2024, trustees put the MTSU’s...

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MTSU Board of Trustees Sets Top Priorities For The Year

(MURFREESBORO) Middle Tennessee State University’s Board of Trustees has identified the pursuit of a professional school as the first of four objectives that it feels should be the institution’s top priorities. During its quarterly meeting Tuesday, March 19, 2024, trustees put the MTSU’s...

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so finally getting serious about a professional school is good. what can they get? the design school in Franklin, Nashville law school or a dentist school?

 

[ewglenn]

I agree that getting a professional school should be our biggest priority. I don’t care if it’s a med school, dental school, law school, etc. We desperately need those programs to continue to boost our school.

 

[Shayne_Pickering]

I agree that getting a professional school should be our biggest priority. I don’t care if it’s a med school, dental school, law school, etc. We desperately need those programs to continue to boost our school.

You would think music with the location. I will say tho they have one of the top schools for pilots in the country. It has a partnership with Delta and is a big deal

 

[ewglenn]

You would think music with the location. I will say tho they have one of the top schools for pilots in the country. It has a partnership with Delta and is a big deal

We already have a highly rated music school if I remember correctly. The professional schools are generally graduate schools. I think a Med school would be a fairly easy one to get going since we’ve already got a partnership with McHarry in Nashville and there are only two public options in TN. ETSU and UTK in Memphis.

 

[MTLynn]

I agree that getting a professional school should be our biggest priority. I don’t care if it’s a med school, dental school, law school, etc. We desperately need those programs to continue to boost our school.

 

[Hop45]

Not a good look when you have to read your entire statement and can't speak without looking at the camera/audience.

 

[SpaceRaider]

Not a good look when you have to read your entire statement and can't speak without looking at the camera/audience.

I'm old enough to remember when MT tried to procure the NSOL back in the 80s and had a deal in place, and tsu screwed that up by using the Geier Stipulation, and lobbied the state to fund to give them an equivalent amount of funding to do the same deal with them, but the NSOL balked at it, and tsu ended spending the not unsubstantial state funding on other things... Still pissed about that.

MT could have been producing law degrees from a fully dedicated MT School of Law for nearly 4 decades if not for that.

 

[FranklinRaider315]

so finally getting serious about a professional school is good. what can they get? the design school in Franklin, Nashville law school or a dentist school?

OMore College of Design is now part of Belmont. It closed the Franklin location in February 2018. I’m trying to understand what this “collaborative curriculum” is going to provide if the graduates can’t sit for the bar or practice law. A couple of semesters of business law in my undergrad BBA was sufficient to understand the basics of business law.

 

[ewglenn]

OMore College of Design is now part of Belmont. It closed the Franklin location in February 2018. I’m trying to understand what this “collaborative curriculum” is going to provide if the graduates can’t sit for the bar or practice law. A couple of semesters of business law in my undergrad BBA was sufficient to understand the basics of business law.

The only position in my company I think it would be useful for would be the contracts manager but I’d still prefer a JD.

 

[DisgruntledAlum]

Correct me if I am wrong, but Middle Tennessee has no law or medical affiliated with a public university. The two med and law schools are both at Vandy and Belmont, both private.

This should be a no brainer in my opinion. You would think the citizens would be more outraged in having to move to Memphis or Knoxville for law school and Memphis or Johnson City for medical school. We all know what happened few years back with the law school from Valpo.

I have no idea what the dental school situation looks like in the area from a public school aspect.