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1415 Murfreesboro Road, Suite
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Nashville, TN 37217
Phone (615) 366-4400 Fax (615) 366-4464
Press Release
TBR Academic
Excellence and Quality Award
Presented to
MTSU’S “RETROSPECTIVE” PROJECT
PRESS RELEASE CONTACT:
Mary Morgan
615.366.4414
Nashville, Tennessee, March 18, 2002 – The Tennessee Board of Regents on March 14 gave its prestigious Academic Excellence and Quality Award to the Middle Tennessee State University (MTSU) project, RETROSPECTIVE.
| RETROSPECTIVE is a collaborative project that brings together the creative talents of students studying art and recording industry in MTSU’s Art Department (College of Liberal Arts) and Recording Industry Department (College of Mass Communication). The focus of this cross-disciplinary project is a compact disc of 18 songs, highlighting 20 years of music produced and recorded by recording industry students and faculty. |
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| Regent Vice-Chair Jack Fishman, Chancellor Charles Manning, Regent Stanley Rogers, Professor Dan Pfeifer, Professor Janet Higgins, Department Chair Christian Haseleu, and MTSU President Sidney McPhee |
Recording industry students helped select, copy and digitally process the songs used for this CD. Art students working as part of the Art Department’s Tulip Poplar Press designed and created original letterpress printed works of art for inclusion with the discs. In addition, art students designed the CD case and accompanying offset-printed booklets.
This collaboration between student engineers, producers, songwriters, graphic designers and artists brings a rich mix of creativity before the public. The RETROSPECTIVE project demonstrates contextual and collaborative learning at its best and provides an outstanding model for higher education that showcases MTSU as a university where innovative programs and creative partnerships are supported.
Christian Haseleu, Chair of the Department of the Recording Industry, Dan Pfeifer, Associate Professor, Recording Industry, and Janet Higgins, Professor, Art at MTSU accepted the Academic Excellence and Quality Awards from the Tennessee Board of Regents at the quarterly TBR meeting held at Columbia State Community College. Martha Millsaps and Suma Clark in Publications and Graphics at MTSU were also credited for assisting with the project.
The Academic Excellence and Quality Award is given quarterly by TBR to an outstanding program in a TBR institution. Previous winners include the Clarksville-Montgomery County Geographic Information Systems Center (CMC-GIS) at Austin Peay State University, the Business Media Center at Tennessee Technological University and the Community Partnership Program at East Tennessee State University.
The Tennessee Board of Regents is the nation’s sixth largest higher education system, governing 45 post-secondary educational institutions. The TBR system includes six universities, 13 two-year colleges and 26 technology centers, providing programs to over 180,000 students in 90 or Tennessee’s 95 counties.
