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MTSU professor receives top honor for public health service

May 23, 2013 By

The Tennessee Public Health Association has bestowed a high honor on an MTSU professor.

Dr. Jo Edwards

Dr. Martha Jo Edwards, holder of the Adams Chair of Excellence in Health Care Services and director of MTSU’s Center for Health and Human Services, received the THPA’s 2013 Visionary Award on April 19.

The honor recognizes community partners in each of three grand divisions of the state. Those people have worked  to extend the borders and scope of traditional public health through their visionary talents and innovative efforts.

Under Edwards’ direction, the Center for Health and Human Services has executed many grant-funded projects and contracts focusing on health care workforce development and improving the health of Tennesseans. These contracts have totaled more than $5 million since 1993.

Edwards serves on the Tennessee Department of Education Advisory Board for Health Science Education and the Tennessee Obesity Task Force and serves as a consultant to the Tennessee Institute of Public Health.

For more information, contact Cindy Chafin at 615-898-5493 or cynthia.chafin@mtsu.edu.

— Gina K. Logue (gina.logue@mtsu.edu)

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In the News: MTSU faculty, staff share expertise on WGNS radio

May 20, 2013 By

Economic research and analysis, University College offerings and the importance of private donations were the topics of discussion Monday morning during WGNS radio’s “Action Line” program featuring MTSU.

Featured on the program were Dr. David Penn, director of the Business and Economic Reseach Center, or BERC; Dr. Mike Boyle, dean of University College; and Nick Perlick, director of development for MTSU.

Check out the podcast of MTSU faculty and staff discussing their areas of expertise with veteran show host Bart Walker. You’ll probably learn something too!

http://wgnsradio.com/update-special-guest-from-mtsu—listen-to-the-podcast-now–cms-12866

Nick Perlick

Nick Perlick

Dr. David Penn

Dr. David Penn

Dr. Mike Boyle

Dr. Mike Boyle

— Jimmy Hart (jimmy.hart@mtsu.edu)

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In the News: Ford gives economic insights for Bankrate.com article

May 20, 2013 By

Dr. William Ford, the Weatherford Chair of Finance in MTSU’s Jennings A. Jones College of Business, provided his perspective on the economy for a recent article on the financial website Bankrate.com entitled “The Fed in focus.”Bankrate(dot)com grab

Dr. William Ford

Dr. William Ford

Read the full story here.

Ford, a former president of the Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta, often appears on nationwide and regional TV and radio business news shows as an economic policy expert.

— Jimmy Hart (jimmy.hart@mtsu.edu)

 

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New mass comm dean helped stage new Songwriters Hall of Fame

May 19, 2013 By

NASHVILLE — The incoming dean of MTSU’s College of Mass Communication, Ken Paulson, played a key role in the development of the new Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame that was unveiled Sunday.

Paulson, vice chair of the songwriters’ hall, oversaw the content development for the 10-by-50-foot interactive display within the Music City Center, the new 2.1 million-square-foot conference and event facility in downtown Nashville.

Ken Paulson

“The members of the hall made Music City possible, and it’s time they were given their due,” said Paulson, a former president of the Newseum, the Washington, D.C., museum devoted to the history of news.

The display features three handicap-accessible computers with interactive touch screens. Visitors can call up digital exhibits of each of the 188 hall inductees, along with song clips, videos, lyric sheets and photos.

The wall also includes display cases for the hall’s memorabilia, including a pair of boots from legendary singer-songwriter Johnny Cash that are on loan from Paulson.

A nearby outside area, called Songwriters Square, features inlaid stones engraved with the names of the inductees, the year they were honored and their songs. Paulson said the hall plans to stage songwriter events in the square. Also, the stairs leading into the building are engraved with the song titles of the hall of fame’s members.

The Tennessean also featured Paulson and songwriter Pat Alger, chair of the Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame, in a blog post and video to preview the new display.

Paulson, who is president and chief executive officer of the First Amendment Center at Vanderbilt University in Nashville, will assume leadership of the MTSU College of Mass Communication on July 1. He replaces Roy Moore, dean of the college since 2008, who will remain with the college as a professor.

MTSU boasts the fifth largest mass communication college in the nation and is the only one that features departments of recording industry, journalism and electronic media communication. It also is home to the Center for Popular Music, which maintains a large research library and archive and interprets various aspects of American vernacular music; as well as the Center for Innovation in Media, which houses all student media outlets as well the student music label Match Records.

A member of The Recording Academy and a former music journalist, Paulson is also a member of the Music City Music Council and a Leadership Music board and executive committee member.

— Andrew Oppmann (andrew.oppmann@mtsu.edu)

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MTSU researcher Ricketts receives Silver Column Award (video)

May 17, 2013 By

MTSU professor Cliff Ricketts capped off an eventful and historic spring 2013 semester by receiving the President’s Silver Column Award from Dr. Sidney A. McPhee and learning that news reports on his 2,600-mile coast-to-coast drive — using no gasoline — generated more than 2.2 million viewers across the country, according to Metro Monitor, a news and media monitoring service.

Ricketts, a 37-year faculty member in the School of Agribusiness and Agriscience, has spent much of his career in alternative fuels research. You can read the complete story at mtsunews.com/ricketts-silver-column-award-2013 and watch a brief video from the event below.

 

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MTSU College of Ed hosts training for Midstate K-12 principals

May 17, 2013 By

MTSU’s College of Education continued training recently to help area public school administrators meet the state’s First to the Top goals.

The May 10 professional development training session brought in about 30 principals from 11 southern Midstate public school districts to help them establish or improve their own systems’ Professional Learning Communities.

Dr. Bob Eaker, a professor in the MTSU Womack Family Educational Leadership Department, recently conducted a training session on Professional Learning Communities at the College of Education building for principals from surrounding public school districts. (Photo by MTSU News and Media Relations)

Dr. Bob Eaker, a professor in the MTSU Womack Family Educational Leadership Department, recently conducted a training session on Professional Learning Communities at the College of Education building for principals from surrounding public school districts. (Photo by MTSU News and Media Relations)

Professional Learning Communities, or PLCs, focus on student learning and results by creating better collaboration and more accountability for teachers and administrators.

Under the direction of President Sidney A. McPhee and Dean Lana Seivers, the MTSU College of Education has been partnering with surrounding school districts on a number of school improvement initiatives, including PLCs.

Dr. Bob Eaker, a professor in the university’s Womack Family Educational Leadership Department, conducted the recent training session at the College of Education building. It followed a similar session in late March comprised of directors and central office staff from area districts.

Both sessions were recorded by the Center for Educational Media and will be available for other school districts’ training on the center’s website, http://www.mtsu.edu/education/cem.php.

MTSU collaborated with education consultant Battelle for Kids, whose services are provided through First to the Top funds. Battelle’s services are directed by the state Department of Education’s eight Centers for Regional Excellence (CORE).

The recent training targeted the south central CORE district, which includes Bedford, Coffee, Franklin, Giles, Hickman, Lawrence, Lewis, Lincoln, Marshall, Maury, Moore, Perry and Wayne counties and city systems in Manchester, Tullahoma and Fayetteville.

For more information about the MTSU Center for Educational Media, visit www.mtsu.edu/education/cem.php; for more on the Womack Family Educational Leadership Department, visit www.mtsu.edu/edu_leadership.

— Jimmy Hart (jimmy.hart@mtsu.edu)

 

Dr. Bob Eaker, a professor in the MTSU Womack Family Educational Leadership Department, recently conducted a training session on Professional Learning Communities at the College of Education building for principals from surrounding public school districts.

Dr. Bob Eaker, a professor in the MTSU Womack Family Educational Leadership Department, recently conducted a training session on Professional Learning Communities at the College of Education building for principals from surrounding public school districts.

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Boston, Texas tragedies discussed on ‘MTSU On the Record’

May 16, 2013 By

The next edition of “MTSU On the Record” will focus on media coverage of the Boston Marathon bombings and the Texas fertilizer plant explosion.

Dr. Larry Burriss

Host Gina Logue’s interview with Dr. Larry Burriss, professor of journalism, will air from 5:30 to 6 p.m. Monday, May 20, and from 8 to 8:30 a.m. Sunday, May 26, on WMOT-FM (89.5 and www.wmot.org).

Burriss also takes up the issue of CNN media critic Howard Kurtz’s fall from grace for inaccurate reporting regarding the story of NBA player Jason Collins’ decision to reveal his homosexuality.

To listen to previous “MTSU On the Record” programs, go to the “Audio Clips” archives here and here.

For more information about “MTSU On the Record,” contact Logue at 615-898-5081 or WMOT-FM at 615-898-2800.

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‘MTSU On the Record’ explores corporate media, cable television

May 9, 2013 By

The impact of corporate media takeovers will be the focus of the next edition of “MTSU On the Record.”

Dr. Adam Rennhoff

Host Gina Logue’s interview with Dr. Adam Rennhoff, assistant professor in the MTSU Department of Economics and Finance, will air from 5:30 to 6 p.m. Monday, May 13, and from 8 a.m. to 8:30 a.m. Sunday, May 19, on WMOT-FM (89.5 and www.wmot.org).

Rennhoff’s research flies in the face of the conventional wisdom that the housing of many newspapers and radio and television stations under relatively few corporate umbrellas diminishes media’s service to their localities.

The interview also will include discussion of Rennhoff’s research into a la carte pricing in the cable television industry. A la carte pricing would allow consumers to select and pay for only those television channels they watch frequently.

To listen to previous “MTSU On the Record” programs, go to the “Audio Clips” archives here and here.

For more information about “MTSU On the Record,” contact Logue at 615-898-5081 or WMOT-FM at 615-898-2800.

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In the News: History professor shares insights on Memphis civil rights leader

May 9, 2013 By

Dr. Elizabeth Gritter, an MTSU assistant professor of history, wrote a column published recently in The Tennessean about Maxine Atkins Smith, an influential civil rights activist from Memphis who passed away April 26 at age 83.

Dr. Elizabeth Gritter

Dr. Elizabeth Gritter

Gritter, who attended Smith’s funeral, first met Smith while conducting an oral history of her in 2000 for a class project.

Her column reads in part: “Smith was unique in that she served as a visible female civil rights leader at a time when the modern feminist movement was only beginning. Although her expressed concern was civil rights and not women’s rights, she challenged persisting notions that men, rather than women, should hold the political spotlight.”

Read her entire column here.

Gritter’s forthcoming book, to be published by University Press of Kentucky, is “River of Hope: Black Politics and the Long Freedom Movement in Memphis, Tennessee: 1865-1954.”

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MTSU professor ascends to leadership of business organization

May 2, 2013 By

An MTSU professor has been elected vice chair of the Association for Corporate Growth.

Doug Tatum

Doug Tatum

Doug Tatum, holder of the Wright Travel Chair of Entrepreneurship and an associate professor in the Department of Business Communication and Entrepreneurship, was voted vice chairman for 2013-14 on April 23 at the group’s annual conference in Orlando, Fla..

The Association for Corporate Growth is a global organization made up of “private equity professionals, investment bankers and intermediaries, attorneys, auditors and accountants, lenders, corporate development officers, company leaders and others focused on the middle market,” according to www.acg.com.

Pamela Hendrickson, chief operating officer for The Riverside Company, was voted chair of the association. Tatum will succeed Hendrickson in 2014-15.

Tatum is chair of Newport Board Group & Evolution Capital Partners. The author of “No Man’s Land: What to Do When Your Company is Too Big to be Small But Too Small to be Big,” he also is advisory board chairman of the Institute of Exceptional Growth Companies.

Tatum was co-founder, chair and chief executive officer of the first national organization to provide executive-level chief financial officer services to companies undergoing rapid and significant change.

For more information, contact Jane Pass at 706-253-3039 or jane.pass@co-investmentpartnership.com.

— Gina K. Logue (gina.logue@mtsu.edu)

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