Summer 2025 Commencement at MTSU

Murphy Athletic Center

Murfreesboro, Tennessee

Saturday, Aug. 9

9 a.m. Central

Degrees will be conferred to graduates in the College of Basic and Applied Sciences, College of Behavioral and Health Sciences, Jennings A. Jones College of Business, College of Education, College of Liberal Arts and College of Media and Entertainment. and University College. This ceremony includes all master’s, doctoral and undergraduate degree candidates for these academic colleges.

Speaker:

Dr. Suzanne Sutherland

Dr. Suzanne Sutherland is a professor in the Department of History and the outgoing Faculty Senate president, serving during the 2024-25 academic year.

Sutherland is fascinated by the late Renaissance and Baroque periods (roughly 1580 to 1700), including the Catholic Reformation in the Italian peninsula and Central Europe. Her teaching and research have focused on war, religion, the Scientific Revolution, the Republic of Letters, the growth of states and empires, and women’s experiences. She views her most important role as helping students get to know and explore a wider world. For that reason, she organizes and leads a summer Study Abroad program in Vienna and Prague called “Heart of Europe” that explores Central European history and culture and provides MTSU students with an opportunity to experience what it is like to live abroad.

Sutherland has also been involved in multiple collaborative, interdisciplinary projects including: Mapping the Republic of Letters as well as the Stanford-based “Early Modern Mobility: Knowledge, Communication, and Transportation, 1500-1800.” Finally, she serves as a subject editor for the digital Routledge Resources Online – The Renaissance World, using digital tools to help interpret some of the most exciting new scholarship on the Renaissance for undergraduate and graduate student readers.

Stacks of diploma covers await Middle Tennessee State University Class of 2025 spring graduates at the first of three commencement ceremonies held May 9-10, inside Murphy Center on the MTSU campus in Murfreesboro, Tenn. MTSU’s summer commencement ceremony will be held at 9 a.m. Saturday, Aug. 9. (MTSU file photo by J. Intintoli)

PLEASE NOTE: Clear bag policy in effect at Murphy Center

For those attending commencement ceremonies in person, please note that a clear bag policy is in effect at Murphy Center as follows: Bags that are clear plastic, vinyl, or PVC may not exceed 12″ x 6″ x 12″. Gallon ziploc bags are allowed. Small clutch purses no larger than 4.5″ x 6.5″ will also be allowed in addition to a clear bag

More information for ALL students receiving degrees is available here.

WATCH LIVE:

MTSU’s Summer 2025 commencement ceremonies will air live via streaming video at www.mtsu.edu/live, https://facebook.com/mtsublueraiders and http://mtsu.edu/trueblueTV  and on local cable channels at http://mtsu.edu/trueblueTV.

You also can click on the photo above to watch the livestreams. The streams will begin about 15 minutes before the ceremony starts.

GRADUATION MISC.:

Complete news coverage, including a video and photos, from MTSU’s spring 2025 commencement ceremony is available here. Summer commencement coverage will be posted after the ceremony.

After receiving the final list of graduates from the Registrar’s Office, the Office of News and Media Relations routes that list through the Merit student achievement platform for publication of all graduates on MTSU’s Merit page and creation of news releases that are distributed to the hometown media for U.S.-based students. Graduates will also be notified via email when their commencement achievement is posted to Merit, and the achievement can then be shared by graduates to their social media accounts as they choose.

Merit is available to all enrolled MTSU students and is still accessible by students after graduation to share post-graduation achievements. Learn more about Merit.

A proud Middle Tennessee State University graduate points to his degree during the spring 2025 commencement ceremony. MTSU’s summer commencement ceremony will be held at 9 a.m. Saturday, Aug. 9. (MTSU file photo by J. Intintoli)