APSU students can stay on track to Graduation with new Winter Term
November 10, 2011
Clarksville, TN – Students at Austin Peay State University wanting to get ahead and stay on track to graduation can take an online course during the University’s new Winter Term.
Winter Term courses begin December 18th and end January 27th. The new term offers undergraduate students the opportunity to complete one class in just six weeks. All courses are offered online and include in-demand courses.
The new term is expected to help students stay focused on completing credits toward a degree. [Read more]
Austin Peay Student Veterans Organization to show ‘Wartorn’ documentary
November 9, 2011
Clarksville, TN – The Student Veterans Organization at Austin Peay State University will sponsor a screening of the HBO documentary “Wartorn: 1861-2010” at 5:00pm, Thursday, November 17th in the Morgan University Center, Room 303.
The event is free and open to the public. [Read more]
Austin Peay State University Choral Department hosting 2nd Annual Holiday Dinner
November 8, 2011
Clarksville, TN – The tables, adorned with floral centerpieces, will be set with the University’s china and polished silverware.
In the kitchen, caterers will quietly prepare salmon, chicken and steak dishes while men and women, dressed in formal attire, listen to more than 100 singers – accompanied by winds, brass and percussion – perform holiday classics. [Read more]
Governors Singers bring “The Little Match Girl Passion” to APSU November 22nd
November 8, 2011
Clarksville, TN – The little match girl, the protagonist of Hans Christian Anderson’s 1845 story of the same name, is a poor child who, on a cold winter evening, tries to sell matches to help feed her family.
As the night progresses, no one pays attention to the girl, and she’s forced to light one match after another to keep warm. She eventually runs out, and the story ends with the death of the poor little match girl. [Read more]
Austin Peay State University Senior Art Show Highlights Interactive Photographs
November 7, 2011
Heather Kennedy
Clarksville, TN – This week, Austin Peay State University graduating senior Heather Kennedy will present her Senior Thesis exhibition, United. This interactive display of photographs will be featured in a dynamic exhibition in APSU’s Gallery 108 located on the first floor of the Trahern Building. Kennedy’s exhibition is the third in the series of seven exhibitions by graduating Arts Majors this Fall.
This exhibition is the culmination of Kennedy’s Senior Thesis and involves an interactive display of photography detailing what unites and brings us together as people. [Read more]
APSU Provost Lecture Series explores adoptive, foster parenting as next topic
November 5, 2011
Clarksville, TN – Popular rhetoric often promotes the idea that to foster or adopt a child, “all you need is love.”
“In actuality, adoptive and foster parents need much more than love,” said Dr. Katherin Flower, assistant professor of sociology at Austin Peay State University. “In fact, there are no uniform criteria for becoming foster or adoptive parents.
Instead, a complex set of federal, state and local policies as well as agency specific mandates establish the criteria for approving parents.” [Read more]
Austin Peay State University to participate in joint Veterans Day program
November 2, 2011
Clarksville, TN – All U.S. veterans – including those fallen during war, prisoners of war and missing in action – will be honored during a joint Veterans Day ceremony on November 8th at Fort Campbell, KY.
Austin Peay State University is one of several postsecondary institutions participating in the program, which will be held at 11:00am, Tuesday, November 8th in the auditorium of the Glenn English Army Education Center. The event is free and open to the public. [Read more]
Cattle donation allows APSU Agriculture Department to expand offerings
November 2, 2011
Clarksville, TN – In August of 2010, the Austin Peay State University Department of Agriculture had the unfortunate designation as being both a small and growing program within the University. Its student population had increased by about 20 percent in two years, but the department only had three full-time faculty members.
“We needed an additional faculty member to help us teach the increase in students, but late that summer, I was getting word we might not get a new position,” Dr. Donald Sudbrink, chair of the APSU Department of Agriculture, said. “Then we received this wonderful donation, and so many positive things happened in rapid succession. It was a game changer for us.”
Chad Pugh, with the APSU Department of Agriculture, gives visitors a tour of the University’s Environmental Education Center, or APSU Farm, during last week’s Preserving the Pride Celebration. (Photo by Beth Liggett/APSU Public Relations and Marketing).
APSU hosts 17th annual Bread and Words reading on November 22nd
November 2, 2011
Clarksville, TN – Every November, on the Tuesday before Thanksgiving, the Austin Peay State University Department of Languages and Literature hosts a benefit reading that not only celebrates the written word, but also raises public awareness of hunger in the local community.
(Front row) Laura McClister, Raven Jackson, (back row) Chase Davenport, Charles Booth and Ryan Boyd will all read during the November 22nd Bread and Words Benefit at APSU. (Photo by Rian Barger/APSU Public Relations and Marketing)
Essayist Ashley Butler to give nonfiction reading at APSU on November 7th
November 2, 2011
Clarksville, TN – In her new collection of essays, “Dear Sound of Footstep,” author Ashley Butler tackles such strange subjects as the fastest man on earth and the bizarre, echo-free chamber at Harvard University. But if you were to ask someone who read this compelling work what it was about, they might give simple one-word answers, such as “mortality” or “existence.”
More specifically, the essays in this book use their subjects to explore the death of Butler’s mother from cancer, and the author’s estranged relationship with her father.
Ashley Butler
