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MTSU President Sidney McPhee addressed questions from Student Government Association members about Forrest Hall, faculty salaries, and other...
Siri Reynolds, Contributing writer
• September 13, 2024
MTSU’s Student Government Association held its second meeting of the semester Thursday, featuring a discussion with a special guest: Faculty Senate President and history professor Suzanne Sutherland.
The Tennessee Historical Commission denied Middle Tennessee State University’s petition for a waiver that would allow the University to rename Forrest Hall on Friday, June 21, making this the university’s second failed attempt to change the name in accordance with Tennessee state law.
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The Forrest...
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MTSU students will give public comment Friday, April, 19 at a Tennessee Historical Commission meeting in regard to MTSU’s appeal of a state law...
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Middle Tennessee State University continued its efforts to change the name of Forrest Hall Friday morning, Oct. 20, with an initial hearing in...
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Nathan Bedford Forrest, a Confederate general in the American Civil War, still holds a presence at Middle Tennessee State University as long as his name remains on the...
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Four years after the Tennessee Historical Commission denied Middle Tennessee State University’s request to change the name of a building dedicated to the Confederate...
On Tuesday, the Middle Tennessee State University Board of Trustees voted unanimously to "support efforts to gain permission from the state" to remove Nathan Forrest's name from MTSU's ROTC building,...
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For decades, Sidelines, students and the faculty of Middle Tennessee State University have fought for equality and equity for African American students.
In 1968, Sidelines published...
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To: Gov. Bill Lee, Lt. Gov. Randy McNally and members of the Tennessee Historical Commission
Forrest Hall was built in 1954, but it was not until four...
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History shows Murfreesboro and Rutherford County, Tennessee, are not strangers to hate crime. From when the Ku Klux Klan first came to Murfreesboro in 1868 to a planned...
