Publisher's Synopsis
When Middle Tennessee State Normal School opened its doors on September 11, 1911, 125 eager students enrolled in a teacher training program. Today, the - edgling teachers' school has grown into Middle Tennessee State University, the largest undergraduate university in Tennessee. " is collection of essays, a centennial tribute that is both celebratory and critical, reveals the school's laudable successes along with its growing pains over the past one hundred years. " ese are accounts of the " erce competition generated by Tennessee towns that sought to win the right to build the school, the ongoing e orts by countless students, administrators, and alumni to create an acceptable identity for their university, and the story of campus women and African Americans who carved out a place for themselves as students and educators. In other instances, teachers became professors, sports teams reached Division I-A status, and PhD programs appeared, all against a backdrop of economic boom and bust times, decades of war and peace as well as social and civic upheaval. " e Middle Tennessee State University story is sure to educate, enlighten, and entertain.
