Welcome It is my great pleasure to welcome you to the Middle Tennessee State University community. We look forward to your student’s arrival on our campus and will have a variety of activities planned to help ease their transition during the first days and weeks of the term.
I hope that you, too, will take advantage of all that MTSU has to offer the families of our students. As a special project of the office of New Student and Family Programs, this guide is meant to supplement your knowledge of the Murfreesboro area and help facilitate your visits to campus. We have a host of family activities that we believe will interest you, including exciting athletic events, musical concerts, theatrical programs, and world-class speakers. Many of these carry very low ticket prices or are free and open to the public. I hope you’ll join us! Of particular interest to you for 2022–23 will be the events during our opening weekend, August 19–21. Parents and family members are welcome to join new students in attending these important activities and getting to know new friends and new campus traditions. I hope you will join your student in reading our summer book selection, which will be introduced to your student as a part of our CUSTOMS orientation program. If your student and family are arriving to the campus on our opening day, Friday, August 19, please plan to join us for opening activities held at the Student
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Union. The evening’s events are free, and the whole family is welcome. Festivities generally begin around 7:00 p.m. and will last until it gets dark. All students and families are welcome, whether the student will be living on-campus, off-campus or at home. We then invite students and their families to return to campus for President McPhee's annual picnic on Saturday evening, which will include the summer reading book author! I also invite your whole family to attend our opening-of-the-year Convocation, held on Sunday afternoon, August 21, in the Murphy Center, as we celebrate the arrival of our newest students. All new students are expected to attend Convocation to begin their MTSU academic experience. During the Convocation ceremony, students will join in our tradition of taking the True Blue Pledge. Among other things, students affirm that, as Blue Raiders, they will engage in the life of this community and contribute to its progress and success. Our keynote speaker for Convocation will be the author of our summer reading book — for many students, this will be the first time they’ve had the opportunity to read a book and then meet the author!
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