Two new minors at APSU allow students to study Web and mobile technologies

Clarksville, TN – Next fall, Austin Peay State University will begin offering two new academic programs that will prepare students to enter a world dominated by the Internet and mobile technology.

Last month, the University’s Academic Council approved the APSU Department of Computer Science and Information Technology’s plans to create a new Web technology minor and a mobile software technology minor. The new programs will officially take effect next fall, but students can already start taking courses toward these minors. [Read more]

L.A. Times columnist, author of ‘The Soloist’ to speak September 29th in APSU Dunn Center

Clarksville, TN – In 2005, Los Angeles Times columnist Steve Lopez strikes an unlikely friendship with Nathaniel Ayers, a homeless musician with schizophrenia who slept each night on one of skid row’s most dangerous streets.

Lopez learned Ayers had been a promising violinist, and that he had left the prestigious music program at the Juilliard School because of his struggle with mental illness. The journalist chronicled Ayers’ struggle in several columns at the Los Angeles Times, inspiring readers to send instruments to Ayers through Lopez. [Read more]