Spring 2020 Graduates
Celebrating Our Spring 2020 Graduates Celebrating Our Spring 2020 Graduates 108th ACADEMIC YEAR Middle Tennessee State University Murfreesboro, Tennessee Middle Tennessee State University has graduated 147,644 students since its inception in 1911. These students have received associate’s, bachelor’s, master’s, educational specialist, and doctoral degrees. Our first Doctor of Arts degrees were conferred on December 22, 1972, the first Educational Specialist degrees on December 20, 1974, the first Doctor of Philosophy degrees on May 10, 2003, and the first Doctor of Education degrees on August 6, 2016. There have been 399 Doctor of Arts degrees, 1,907 Educational Specialist degrees, 355 Doctor of Philosophy degrees, and 30 Doctor of Education degrees awarded. To the True Blue Class of 2020: At MTSU, we’ll never forget our class of May 2020 graduates. Like past graduates, you stayed up half the night preparing for exams, felt the self- satisfaction of finishing a paper you never thought you could write, and no doubt walked cross-campus in the rain from the only parking spot you could find. But unlike most past graduates, you endured a true crisis to cross your educational finish line. The suddenness of the COVID-19 outbreak and subsequent transition to online learning meant you never returned from spring break to tell your vacation stories in person. You completed your college career online and remotely, likely staring into a Zoom grid. Regrettably, you missed out on triumphant shared experiences like receiving well- deserved congratulations from a trusted professor at the end of your final course, or a hug from a longtime classmate, or, perhaps most poignantly, the formal ceremony to commemorate your achievement.
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