Leaving on a High Note - Austin Peay State University
Leaving on a High Note - Austin Peay State University
Leaving on a High Note - Austin Peay State University
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Another first: APSU<br />
enrollment tops 9,000<br />
Your alma mater reached a milest<strong>on</strong>e in<br />
Fall 2006. When final enrollment was tallied,<br />
APSU hit another historic high—pushing past<br />
9,000 students—with an eye <strong>on</strong> 10,000.<br />
Total <strong>University</strong> headcount for Fall 2006,<br />
including main campus and the <strong>Austin</strong> <strong>Peay</strong><br />
Center @ Fort Campbell, was 9,207—up 5.5<br />
percent over Fall 2005. Full-time equivalency<br />
(FTE) enrollment was 7,443 in Fall 2006, up<br />
1.2 percent from the previous fall.<br />
The deployment of the 101st Airborne<br />
Divisi<strong>on</strong> (Air Assault) in Fall 2005 did not<br />
affect enrollment at the <strong>Austin</strong> <strong>Peay</strong> Center @<br />
Fort Campbell as much as expected, thanks to<br />
the recruitment of military dependents and<br />
civilians.<br />
With the return of the 101st last fall, the<br />
<strong>Austin</strong> <strong>Peay</strong> Center @ Fort Campbell had a<br />
near 124 percent increase in enrollment of veterans<br />
and a 52 percent increase in active-duty<br />
soldiers.<br />
Since Fall 2000, APSU’s overall enrollment<br />
has increased almost 30 percent—making<br />
it the state’s fastest growing university.<br />
Degrees meet market demand<br />
APSU so<strong>on</strong> will offer a Master of Arts in<br />
Teaching, designed for students with a bachelor’s<br />
degree who are seeking an educati<strong>on</strong><br />
degree and teacher’s license at the same time.<br />
The Master of Arts in Teaching will be the<br />
latest in a string of graduate studies added to<br />
the <strong>University</strong>’s curriculum, many of which<br />
are geared toward <strong>on</strong>line learning.<br />
On January 1, 2006, the <strong>University</strong><br />
launched a Master of Arts in Military History<br />
program with 17 students enrolled the first<br />
semester. The M.A. in Military History, the<br />
<strong>on</strong>ly <strong>on</strong>e of its kind in the state and <strong>on</strong>e of a<br />
few in the nati<strong>on</strong>, includes such courses as<br />
“Military Historiography and Criticism,”<br />
“Warfare in the Classical World,” “War and<br />
Ethics” and “Special Operati<strong>on</strong>s<br />
Perspectives.”<br />
APSU launched the <strong>on</strong>line Master of<br />
Professi<strong>on</strong>al Studies in Leadership program in<br />
Fall 2006, with eight students registered for<br />
the inaugural semester. A partnership effort<br />
through the Regents Online Degree Program,<br />
the program requires 33 hours of interdisciplinary<br />
courses in such areas as leadership and<br />
organizati<strong>on</strong>al structure.<br />
Another new degree program approved for<br />
APSU in 2006 is the Online Medical<br />
APSU Public Relati<strong>on</strong>s Archives<br />
Laboratory Technician to B.S. in Medical<br />
Technology.<br />
In a history-making announcement, APSU<br />
officials are collaborating with the academic<br />
staff at TBR to launch the <strong>University</strong>’s first doctoral<br />
program, in educati<strong>on</strong>.<br />
New minors include Asian studies and geographic<br />
informati<strong>on</strong> systems and spatial<br />
analysis, theatre or dance, global security<br />
studies, decisi<strong>on</strong> sciences and real estate.<br />
In a historic first, APSU gets<br />
nod to build classroom<br />
building <strong>on</strong> Army post<br />
For the first time in history, a university—<br />
In a history-making acti<strong>on</strong>, APSU received permissi<strong>on</strong><br />
to build its own building adjacent to the<br />
English Educati<strong>on</strong> Center, shown above, at Fort<br />
Campbell, Ky. Six higher educati<strong>on</strong> instituti<strong>on</strong>s offer<br />
classes <strong>on</strong> post, but APSU enrolls more students<br />
than the other five combined.<br />
APSU—received permissi<strong>on</strong> from the <strong>State</strong><br />
Building Commissi<strong>on</strong> to c<strong>on</strong>struct a $4.7 milli<strong>on</strong><br />
educati<strong>on</strong> building adjacent to the<br />
English Educati<strong>on</strong> Center at nearby Fort<br />
Campbell, Ky.<br />
This marks a unique situati<strong>on</strong> in which a<br />
state university has been granted permissi<strong>on</strong><br />
to build an educati<strong>on</strong>al facility <strong>on</strong> federal<br />
property through a 25-year, l<strong>on</strong>g-term land<br />
lease with the Army, with an opti<strong>on</strong> of a lease<br />
renewal for an additi<strong>on</strong>al 25 years.<br />
APSU officials have been working <strong>on</strong> the<br />
project for more than two years, and<br />
<strong>University</strong> officials say the goal is to be in the<br />
facility by Fall 2008.<br />
Currently, at the English Educati<strong>on</strong> Center,<br />
APSU enrolls more students than the other<br />
five universities added together, according to<br />
Gerald Beavers, executive director of the<br />
<strong>Austin</strong> <strong>Peay</strong> Center @ Fort Campbell, who<br />
says, “We are at our limit of seats available<br />
with the current classrooms.”<br />
To further intensify the crowding problem,<br />
several World War II barracks, which APSU<br />
Spring 2007<br />
currently uses for classrooms and labs, are to<br />
be demolished by the Army by 2008.<br />
“Our growing enrollment and the expressed<br />
need for additi<strong>on</strong>al programs c<strong>on</strong>tinue to<br />
increase due to the number of Army pers<strong>on</strong>nel,<br />
their dependents and civilians taking<br />
classes at Fort Campbell,” Beavers said.<br />
“Plus, an additi<strong>on</strong>al brigade has been<br />
assigned to the post recently, adding about<br />
3,000 soldiers, many with dependents.”<br />
Currently, the <strong>Austin</strong> <strong>Peay</strong> Center @ Fort<br />
Campbell has 30 full-time faculty, 80 adjunct<br />
faculty and 15 full-time staff serving more than<br />
2,000 students each term. APSU’s new <strong>on</strong>post<br />
educati<strong>on</strong>al facility will include six classrooms,<br />
faculty offices and laboratory space.<br />
Hoppe, Speck publish<br />
biography of civil rights<br />
activist Maxine Smith<br />
Researched and written by the president and<br />
provost of <strong>Austin</strong> <strong>Peay</strong> <strong>State</strong> <strong>University</strong>, an<br />
authorized biography of Maxine Atkins Smith,<br />
focusing primarily <strong>on</strong> her role as a civil rights<br />
activist, was accepted for publicati<strong>on</strong> in 2007<br />
by the <strong>University</strong> of Tennessee Press.<br />
Dr. Sherry Hoppe, APSU president, and Dr.<br />
Bruce Speck, provost, spent m<strong>on</strong>ths c<strong>on</strong>ducting<br />
research and interviews, including several<br />
with Maxine Smith and husband Vasco.<br />
Titled “Maxine’s Unwilling Pupils:<br />
Less<strong>on</strong>s Learned in Memphis’ Civil Rights<br />
Classroom,” the biography paints a picture of<br />
this highly educated and extremely vocal<br />
woman and how her powerful pers<strong>on</strong>ality<br />
expedited the civil rights movement in and<br />
around Memphis.<br />
According to Hoppe’s and Speck’s<br />
research, although Smith spoke out against<br />
unfair treatment of blacks in all<br />
areas, her primary<br />
interest was<br />
educati<strong>on</strong>.<br />
Following<br />
her leadership<br />
in the<br />
integrati<strong>on</strong> of<br />
Memphis’ elementary<br />
and<br />
high schools,<br />
through such<br />
acti<strong>on</strong>s as the<br />
infamous “Black<br />
M<strong>on</strong>days,” Smith<br />
was elected to the<br />
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