APSU Board of Trustees to host summer meeting May 18th-19th
May 15, 2017
Clarksville, TN – On May 18th and 19th, the Austin Peay State University Board of Trustees will host its summer meetings on the APSU campus.
The Board’s Business and Finance Committee, its Academic Policies and Programs/Student Life Committee, and its Audit Committee will meet at 1:30pm that Thursday, and the full Board will meet at 9:00am on Friday, May 19th.
Austin Peay State University Campus. (APSU)
Mayor’s Summer Night Lights provides free fun for young people
May 14, 2017
Clarksville, TN – Clarksville Mayor Kim McMillan is excited to invite young people in the Clarksville community to a summer program filled with free food and fun activities designed to help young people fight the summertime blues and boredom.
The fifth season of the Mayor’s Summer Night Lights program will kick off June 5th with 5-on-5 basketball tournaments and continue at various locations throughout the summer with DJs, athletic competitions, arts and crafts, local music performances and even a step show featuring fraternities and sororities from Austin Peay State University.
APSU to offer first engineering degree this fall
May 14, 2017
Clarksville, TN – “When will Austin Peay State University offer an engineering degree?”
Since the early 1960s, prospective students and area manufacturers have asked that question, and today (May 11th, 2017), the Tennessee Higher Education Commission (THEC) finally provided them with an answer.
The campus of Austin Peay State University. (APSU)
Altra Federal Credit Union promotes Rose Melton to Retail Market Manager
May 14, 2017
Clarksville, TN – Altra Federal Credit Union is pleased to announce the promotion of Rose Melton from Office Manager to Retail Market Manager. Melton has worked for Altra since 2007.
“Rose has done an exceptional job servicing our members in the Clarksville area,” said Dan Schwaab, Regional Vice President for Altra Federal Credit Union.
Rose Melton
Austin Peay sociology/journalism student Sarah Eskildson to help combat human trafficking with summer internship
May 13, 2017
Clarksville, TN – An earthquake ravaged parts of Nepal on April 25th, 2015 destroying homes and businesses and killing nearly 9,000 people. In the months following the devastation, several mysterious individuals appeared in the ruble, offering survivors the opportunity to pursue a better life through education or jobs overseas.
Thousands of women and girls, having no alternative, accepted these seemingly generous offers.
APSU Student Sara Eskildson. (Hunter Abrams, APSU)
Austin Peay’s Courtney Cousin, Colleen White receive Harold Love Outstanding Community Service Award
May 12, 2017
Clarksville, TN – When Courtney Cousin walked across the stage to accept her Bachelor in Business Administration in business marketing from Austin Peay State University in early May, it was an affirmation of her work in the classroom.
One month earlier, Cousin’s tireless work in the community was recognized as the APSU senior joined APSU biology instructor Colleen White in receiving the 2017 Tennessee Higher Education Commission Harold Love Outstanding Community Service Award.
APSU’s Courtney Cousin
APSU’s Phi Alpha Theta celebrate seventh volume of history journal Theta-Delta
May 12, 2017
Clarksville, TN – Since its debut in 2011, Theta-Delta has become another avenue for Phi Alpha Theta (PAT), Austin Peay State University’s award-winning history honor society, students to demonstrate their capacity for historical research, authorship and criticism.
Modeled after scholarly magazines such as The Journal of Southern History, Theta-Delta allows APSU students to grow as editors as they mold a year’s worth of classroom research into quality, publishable articles.
APSU’s Phi Alpha Theta presents APSU President Alisa White with the first printing of its now-seventh volume of Theta-Delta. (Cassidy Graves, APSU)
APSU’s Amanda Walker named VP of Nashville Area Career Fair Consortium’s board
May 11, 2017
Clarksville, TN – Dr. Amanda Walker, director of career services at Austin Peay State University, was appointed vice president of the Nashville Area Career Fair Consortium’s (NACFC) Board of Directors on Wednesday, May 3rd, 2017.
Walker served as event chair for the 2017 Nashville Area Career Fair.
Dr. Amanda Walker
Austin Peay State University Department of Music students perform, receive honors at TMEA conference
May 7, 2017
Clarksville, TN – The Austin Peay State University Department of Music was well represented at the Tennessee Music Education Association (TMEA)’s annual conference, held in April in Nashville at the Opryland Hotel.
The APSU Clarinet Choir, under the direction of Dr. Spencer Prewitt, was among a number of student groups selected to perform at the conference.
Gaylord Opryland Resort & Convention Center. (Opryland Hotel)
May 5, 2017
Still time to register to run or volunteer
Clarksville, TN – The 39th Annual Queen City Road Race, scheduled for Saturday, May 6th, is quickly approaching and there is still time to register in person or online.
Online registration can be completed at www.cityofclarksville.com/parksrec and is available until noon on Friday, May 5th. Participants registering in person may come by the Clarksville Parks and Recreation Office, 102 Public Square, through Friday, May 6th or register onsite at Austin Peay’s Foy Center the morning of Saturday, May 6th.
Queen City Road Race
