Soldiers and Families Embraced to hold “Lighting the Way Home” breakfast November 10th
October 12, 2016
Clarksville, TN – Soldiers may deploy into combat as a unit, but too often, the journey home is lonely and discouraging. Combat veterans – both men and women – may make the physical journey successfully back to the states but finding the way home after war – navigating the pain, the losses and the guilt – can take years. You can help, though.
Join SAFE: Soldiers and Families Embraced, community leaders and your neighbors on Thursday, November 10th, 2016, to share a meal at the organization’s annual fundraising breakfast, “Lighting the Way Home.”
Soldiers and Families Embraced retreat for active duty military, veterans and families.
Tennessee Governor Bill Haslam appoints Eight to serve on Austin Peay State University Board of Trustees
October 12, 2016
APSU to Have Increased Autonomy with Local Governing Board
Clarksville, TN – Tennessee Governor Bill Haslam has appointed eight individuals to the newly created institutional governing board at Austin Peay State University.
The purpose of the appointments is to give the University increased autonomy to support student success as the state continues its Drive to 55 Initiative. Austin Peay State University’s governing board is one of six to be appointed by the governor, a result of the governor’s FOCUS Act passed by the Tennessee General Assembly earlier this year.
The campus of Austin Peay State University. (APSU)
Austin Peay State University service-learning class teaches computer literacy to senior citizens
October 8, 2016
Clarksville, TN – Forget your cell phone, your tablet or any other mobile device, and try to imagine that you’re sitting at a desktop computer for the very first time. How do you use the mouse? What is the “F1” button for on the keyboard? How do you access the Internet?
“Technology has been pervasive in my life since kindergarten, so there’s a lot of things about computers that we take for granted,” Blake Crozier, an Austin Peay State University computer science student, said. “Things that we intuitively understand have to be taught with sensitivity to many senior citizens.”
APSU Computer Science student Blake Crozier teaches Computer Literacy to a Senior Citizen.
Internationally recognized artist Janine Antoni to visit Austin Peay State University October 13th
October 5, 2016
Clarksville, TN – The Austin Peay State University Department of Art and Design, with support from the APSU Center of Excellence for the Creative Arts, will host a lecture by internationally recognized artist Janine Antoni at 7:00pm on October 13th in the Trahern Theater.
Antoni’s talk is part of the art and design department’s 2016-17 Visiting Artist Speaker Series.
Paper Dance – Artist Janine Antoni.
APSU students join area historians in exploring Fort Defiance
October 5, 2016
Clarksville, TN – Located on a bluff some 200 feet above the meeting point of the Red River and the Cumberland River, Fort Defiance served a significant role in Clarksville’s participation in the Civil War.
Viewed by Confederates as an ideal site to defend the river approach to Clarksville, the fort eventually was captured by Union forces, who occupied the site for the remainder of the war.
Austin Peay Students learning about Fort Defiance from local historians.
APSU’s Phi Alpha Theta wins eighth Best Chapter Award
October 3, 2016
Clarksville, TN – While much of America focused on each word said during the recent first presidential debate, something else was gnawing at the back of the mind of Austin Peay State University professor of history, Dr. Minoa Uffelman.
For the last seven years, the University’s Phi Alpha Theta National Honor Society (PAT), which Uffelman advises, has been recognized each fall with the national Best Chapter Award, but September was drawing to a close without word on a possible eighth consecutive award.
Austin Peay President Dr. Alisa White with the University’s Phi Alpha Theta National Honor Society (PAT).
APSU’s Zone 3 Press presents an editors reading on October 6th
October 1, 2016
Clarksville, TN – On Thursday, October 6th, Zone 3, the Austin Peay State University Center for Excellence in Creative Arts’ literary journal, will present a reading with three of its award-winning editors, Amy Wright, Barry Kitterman and Andrea Spofford.
The event, which is free and open to the public, will be held in Room 303 of the Morgan University Center and begins at 8:00pm.
City of Clarksville announces Ricky Cumberland appointed Clarksville Fire Marshal
September 30, 2016
Clarksville, TN – Ricky Cumberland, a 20-year veteran of Clarksville Fire Rescue, has been promoted to Fire Marshal, Fire Chief Mike Roberts announced Friday.
Cumberland, 51 and a 1993 graduate of Austin Peay State University, has served as a Fire Prevention Officer with the department since 2001. He joined the city fire department in 1996 as a firefighter after three-years as a Clarksville Police Officer.
He officially begins as Fire Marshal on October 1st, and succeeds Ray Williams, who was promoted to Deputy Fire Chief earlier this year.
Clarksville Fire Marshal Ricky Cumberland
Miss Tennessee USA Pageant Tickets Now on Sale
September 28, 2016
Clarksville, TN – More than 80 delegates will adorn Clarksville for the 2017 Miss Tennessee USA and Miss Tennessee Teen USA Pageant on October 7th-8th, 2016 at the Austin Peay State University Music and Mass Communications Building.
Organized and produced by Greenwood Productions, the upcoming pageant marks Clarksville’s 18th year to host the event.
Hope Stephens is crowned Miss Tennessee USA 2016 at Austin Peay State University in Clarksville, Tennessee in October, 2015.
Austin Peay State University Department of Theatre and Dance opens Fall 2016 season with “Picnic”
September 27, 2016
Clarksville, TN – The Austin Peay State University Department of Theatre and Dance begins its Fall 2016 season with a production of William Inge’s “Picnic.” The play, which runs from September 28th through October 2nd, will be held in the Trahern Theatre on the University campus.
“Picnic” runs from September 28th-October 2nd at APSU.
