A program designed to give students a more intimate relationship with their college educations was the topic on a recent “MTSU On the Record” radio program.

Dr. Julie Myatt

Gina K. Logue

Host Gina Logue’s interview with Dr. Julie Myatt, director of the MT Engage program, first aired June 8 on WMOT-FM Roots Radio 89.5 and www.wmot.org.

You can listen to their conversation via the Soundcloud link above.

MT Engage employs learning communities, collaborations, project-based learning, problem-based learning and outside-the-classroom activities designed to enhance the students’ intellectual lives.

“Helping students recognize that course work was meaningful, that it was related to their own goals, to their life experience — that is what the program has really tried to cultivate,” Myatt said.

MT Engage, which celebrates its fifth anniversary this year, is the university’s latest Quality Enhancement Plan, or QEP. A QEP is a requirement for reaccreditation through the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools Commission on Colleges.

MT Engage builds on the work of the previous QEP, Experiential Learning, by including freshmen and sophomores. 

To hear previous “MTSU On the Record” programs, visit the searchable “Audio Clips” archives at www.mtsunews.com.

For more information about the radio program, contact Logue at 615-898-5081 or WMOT-FM at 615-898-2800.