Board of Professional Advisers

Andrew Oppmann 
Ex-officio member 
Vice President and Spokesman
Middle Tennessee State University

Andrew Oppmann is MTSU's vice president for marketing and communications. He joined MTSU in 2010 and led a strategic restructuring of the University's marketing and communications operations, including the creation of MTSUNews.com and the relaunch of MTSU Magazine. He also teaches Media Writing as an adjunct professor of journalism in MTSU's College of Mass Communication. He serves on the President's Cabinet and is the University's chief spokesman.

Andrew joined MTSU in November 2010 after more than 25 years as a reporter, editor or executive for newspapers in seven states. He was president and publisher of Gannett Tennessee’s media groups in Murfreesboro (The Daily News Journal) and Clarksville (The Leaf-Chronicle) and was a vice president for The Tennessean in Nashville. A 1985 graduate of the University of Kentucky, Andrew was a reporter for The Orange County Register in Santa Ana, Calif.; the Lexington (Ky.) Herald-Leader and The Knoxville News-Sentinel. He worked as an editor at the Herald-Leader, The Houston Post, The Cincinnati Enquirer, the Montgomery (Ala.) Advertiser and The Post-Crescent in Appleton, Wis., where he also served as the newspaper’s general manager.

Andrew is a former national board member of the Associated Press Media Editors and, in 2012, he rejoined APME as an academic representative and was appointed as editor of its quarterly magazine (APME News). He received top columnist honors in 2004 from the Wisconsin Newspaper Association and the Best of Gannett national competition. He was named one of Gannett's top 15 newsroom supervisors (1995 and 2000); 10 top executive editors in 2005; and top three publishers in 2008. He is past president and a current board member of the University of Kentucky Journalism Alumni Association.