MURFREESBORO, Tenn. — Keynote speaker Jessica Stollings-Holder led attendees at Middle Tennessee State University’s recent Leadership Summit through an engaging presentation about collaboration and teamwork that boiled down to one key factor: “We all need each other.”
Hosted by the Jennings A. Jones College of Business, this year’s event drew 325 attendees to Embassy Suites in Murfreesboro for the luncheon presentation by Stollings-Holder, .
MURFREESBORO, Tenn. — Middle Tennessee State University said Tuesday it will postpone Thursday’s planned groundbreaking ceremony for its new Student-Athlete Performance Center in respect for alumnus and Trustee Joey Jacobs, who died Saturday (Jan. 14).
The ceremony will now be held at 4 p.m. Thursday, Jan. 26, at the Kennon Hall of Fame. It will mark the beginning of construction of the $66 million project, to be built behind the north end zone of Floyd Stadium and will in .
MURFREESBORO, Tenn. — Author Ryan Jenkins began his keynote remarks for Middle Tennessee State University’s recent Leadership Summit at Embassy Suites with the story of the tiny hamlet of Kugluktuk in western Canada that at one point had the world’s highest teen suicide rate despite a population of just under 1,500 people.
In response to the crisis, the community introduced the sport of lacrosse to the local high school, he said, and the team, the Kugluktuk Griz .