UPS Delivers Workforce Development Programming to LEAP Students
Nashville, TN – UPS collaborates with the LEAP Organization to educate students on job seeking strategies, best practices to retain employment and receive promotions, and the benefits associated with employment opportunities with UPS.
The goal of LEAP’s Career Readiness Program is to provide youth ages 16 to 24 with critical job skills to prepare them for entry into the workforce. Members of UPS Human Resources Department educated the students on the UPS mission and history then guided them on a tour on their warehouse facility to explain the various positions within the company.
UPS works with LEAP’s Career Readiness Program to help students learn about job opportunities.
APSU purchases adjacent, 10-acre Jenkins and Wynne property
Clarksville, TN – Austin Peay State University, which turns 90 next year, recently experienced a late growth spurt. Earlier this week, the campus grew by about 10 acres when the school finally closed on property previously owned by the Jenkins and Wynne auto dealership.
The $8.8 million purchase marks one of the largest expansions in the University’s history, and it now connects the 182-acre College Street campus with downtown Clarksville.
Jenkins and Wynne auto dealership property on College Street purchased by Austin Peay State University.
Safa Samiezadé-Yazd to discuss Arabic calligraphy, graffiti, street art and urban culture at Austin Peay
Visiting speaker Safa Samiezadé-Yazd to discuss Arabic calligraphy, graffiti, street art and urban culture
Clarksville, TN – The Department of Art and Design, with support from The Center of Excellence for the Creative Arts, is pleased to welcome Safa Samiezadé-Yazd to the campus of Austin Peay State University.
Samiezadé-Yazd will be on campus to give a brief introduction into the world of Arabic calligraphy, graffiti writing, street art and urban culture, and the artists, graffiti writers and typographers who keep the tradition alive.
Austin Peay State University’s Trahern Building. (APSU)
APSU students perform service work in Louisiana and Florida over winter break
Clarksville, TN – Earlier this month, two groups of Austin Peay State University students spent a week volunteering on Alternative Break Trips. Collectively, the students completed more than 400 hours of community service.
From January 9th-14th, eight students and a staff member traveled to Lacombe, Louisiana, to spend a week volunteering with the Giving Hope Retreat, a partnership organization with the New Orleans Rescue Mission.
Austin Peay Students did volunteer work at Jungle Friends Primate Sanctuary in Gainesville, FL.
Clarksville Parks and Recreation partners with APSU Fraternity and Sorority Affairs to offer free after-school tutoring program
Clarksville, TN – Clarksville Parks and Recreation and APSU Fraternity and Sorority Affairs have joined forces to provide a free after-school tutoring program for youth in the Clarksville community.
The new program, Each One Teach One, is held on Mondays at the Burt-Cobb Community Center from 4:00pm to 5:30pm.
Clarksville Parks and Recreation “Each One Teach One” tutoring program.
Residents within 250 miles can get in-state tuition rates at APSU
Clarksville, TN – If you live or attend high school in a county outside of Tennessee that is within a 250-mile radius of Austin Peay State University, then you qualify for a discounted tuition rate for both undergraduate and graduate programs at Austin Peay.
High school students who have a 22 ACT (or 1020 SAT) or higher are eligible for an additional Provost Scholarship, bringing tuition rates within a few dollars of the University’s in-state rate.
The campus of Austin Peay State University. (APSU)
APSU to hold Martin Luther King Jr. Day of Service Meal Packaging Event
MLK Jr. Day of Service meal packaging event to be held Friday, January 29th, 2016
Clarksville, TN – More than 500 student, staff and faculty volunteers will gather on the campus of Austin Peay State University Friday, January 29th for the Martin Luther King Jr. Day of Service.
In honor of the life and legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., volunteers will do their part to help alleviate hunger in a third-world country with a meal packaging event hosted by the APSU Diversity Committee and Feed My Starving Children. The event will take place from 10:00am-5:30pm at the Foy Fitness and Recreation Center.
APSU Foy Fitness and Recreation Center. (Austin Peay State University)
Guest Lecturer Talks Quilts at the Customs House Museum
Clarksville, TN – The Customs House Museum is showcasing part of its quilt collection through January in the exhibit Patterns of History.
Sponsored in part by Legends Bank, this exhibit highlights covers dating as far back as 1830. Included is a Mexican Rose quilt (c. 1850 – 1860) and a “Crazy Quilt” piano runner (c. 1880) made by Lena McLean of Rutherford County, TN.
Judy Schwender of the National Quilt Museum to speak at Customs House Museum.
Clarksville Parks and Recreation now accepting Lifeguard applications the New Year
Clarksville, TN – Clarksville Parks and Recreation is now accepting applications for lifeguard positions for the 2016 summer swimming season.
To become a lifeguard, participants must be at least 15 years of age and able to swim 300 yards continuously, tread water for two minutes without the use of arms or hands and successfully complete a timed event within 1 minute and 40 seconds.
Lifeguard applications being expected now by Clarksville Parks and Recreation.
APSU Department of Music now offering bachelor, master of music degrees
Clarksville, TN – To better prepare students for rewarding careers in both performance and music education, the Austin Peay State University Department of Music now offers bachelor of music degrees in both music education and performance.
In addition, APSU now offers a restructured Master of Music in Music Education, along with online course offerings for working professionals.
Austin Peay State University’s Music / Mass Communication Building. (APSU)
