NOVEMBER

Charitable Giving Campaign

With a theme this year of “Make a Difference,” MTSU’s 2022–23 Employee Charitable Giving Campaign raised a record-setting amount of almost $145,000 pledged, beating the $142,500 campaign goal.

The University’s 830 faculty and staff participants once again rose to the occasion and demonstrated their True Blue spirit of giving with pledges totaling $144,906.

Even as inflationary pressures impacted society, MTSU employees showed what good neighbors they are and committed to share their financial resources with area nonprofit organizations that do such great work in supporting those in need.

Participants can designate gifts to 140-plus organizations from a list of 10 independent charities and three federated groups of charities.

MT Engage

The MT Engage program, launched in 2016 as part of the University’s second Quality Enhancement Plan, is designed to support students’ academic engagement in their courses through investing in faculty development and promoting high-impact teaching practices to better support students from all backgrounds.

More specifically, MT Engage invites students to explore connections across different learning experiences and to reflect on the knowledge and skills they are gaining at MTSU so they are equipped to take that knowledge forward into their future careers and civic lives.

MT Engage courses include active learning practices, such as assignments that are problem-based or collaborative or involve undergraduate research, and help students reflect on their learning by documenting their ongoing growth in an ePortfolio. Currently, 336 courses are certified.

In November, MTSU made the program a permanent component of the University’s education delivery program.

MTSU Students Reach Med School

The first four MTSU undergraduates successfully advanced in a special partnership with Meharry Medical College School of Medicine.

As of November, the students had completed their first three years of study in prescribed undergraduate premedical school curriculum and were five months into four years of medical school study.

It’s all part of the Medical School Early Acceptance Program (MSEAP), a collaboration between MTSU’s studies and

College of Basic and Applied Sciences and Meharry that launched with generous state support in 2018.

The program intends to increase the number of primary care physicians serving medically underserved populations as well as alleviate health care disparities in rural Tennessee.

Four other students are now in their third year of the program at MTSU. Eight are in their second year and four in their first, for a total of 20 program participants.