From Normal to Extraordinary In 2011, MTSU opened a brand-new, $30 million, 87,000-squarefoot, state-of-the-art College of Education building. It was fitting for the University to cut the ribbon on a new education building during its 100th anniversary year: the institution was founded as a normal school dedicated to training teachers.
Suddenly Soaring MTSU’s new, $3.4 million, 360-degree seamless air traffic control flight simulator is the most sophisticated of its kind in the world. No other flight school in America has a teaching facility like this.
Field Lab The Harpeth Wetland Bank in 2012 donated about 220 acres of rural property in the Rockvale area of Rutherford County to MTSU. The land will be used as an environmental field laboratory for programs in biology, environmental science, botany, conservation, and other sciences.
Got Milk? MTSU in 2011 opened a new $4 million dairy. The MTSU dairy provides chocolate and white milk to campus dining facilities. Onethird of the dairy’s production—about 3,800 pounds—is consumed on campus every week. The rest is sold to the Maryland and Virginia Milk Producers Cooperative Association.
The College of Education Building
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