MTSU Commencement ‘10: Almost 900 students set to graduate Saturday, Aug. 14
A projected 892 degree candidates will graduate during the 99th annual summer commencement ceremony, MTSU officials announced.
The single-ceremony graduation will begin at 10 a.m. Saturday, Aug. 14, in Murphy Center with Deborah Belcher, professor in the Department of Human Sciences and the current MTSU representative of the Tennessee Board of Regents’ Faculty Subcouncil, delivering the commencement address.
Ann S. Reaves, assistant director for graduation in MTSU’s Records Office, said 657 of this summer’s degree candidates will be undergraduates, and 235 students are slated to earn their degrees from the College of Graduate Studies. That total includes 213 master’s degrees, 17 education-specialist degrees and five doctoral degrees.
A member of MTSU’s faculty since 1991, Belcher teaches in the university’s interior design program and is the 2010-11 interim chairwoman for MTSU’s human sciences department, as well as serving as the 2009-10 president of the MTSU Faculty Senate.
A registered interior designer in the State of Tennessee, Belcher taught in the environmental design program at Syracuse University before joining MTSU. She also is a design consultant who specializes in the re-use of existing structures, day care facility design, elderly care facility design and health care facility design.
A native of Murfreesboro, Belcher holds professional membership in the Interior Design Educators Council and is a member of both the American Society of Interior Designers and the Institute of Classical Architecture. She received the ASID 1995 Education Award from the Tennessee Chapter and a Tennessee Chapter Presidential Citation in 2003, 2008 and 2009, and earlier this year, she received a national IDEC Service Award and served as the 2008-10 IDEC South Region’s chairwoman.
Graduation information—including how to watch the ceremony via streaming video the day of commencement, maps and driving directions to Murphy Center, cap-and-gown information and how to order a DVD of the summer ceremony—is available online at http://bit.ly/bAJpD5.
