{"id":2064,"date":"2023-06-23T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2023-06-23T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.mtsu.edu\/blogtest\/from-president-mcphee-notice-of-intent-of-waiver-to-rename-forrest-hall\/"},"modified":"2025-03-27T17:19:40","modified_gmt":"2025-03-27T17:19:40","slug":"from-president-mcphee-notice-of-intent-of-waiver-to-rename-forrest-hall","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mtsu.edu\/president\/from-president-mcphee-notice-of-intent-of-waiver-to-rename-forrest-hall\/","title":{"rendered":"FROM PRESIDENT MCPHEE: Notice of Intent of Waiver to Rename Forrest Hall"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 20px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div><p>To the University community,<\/p>\n<p>We posted today public notice of our intention to again petition the Tennessee Historical Commission for a waiver that would allow us to rename Forrest Hall, the building that houses our Army ROTC detachment.<\/p>\n<p>You may recall that our Board of Trustees, <a href=\"https:\/\/mtsunews.com\/board-of-trustees-meeting-sept2021-recap\/\">at its meeting of Sept. 14, 2021<\/a>, voted unanimously to support my desire to remove the name of Confederate General Nathan Bedford Forrest from the structure, which I feel distracts from the values, goals and priorities that we share as a modern, inclusive and comprehensive university.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tennessean.com\/story\/opinion\/2021\/08\/20\/mtsu-sees-path-forward-removing-nathan-bedford-forrest-name-building\/8210813002\/\">I wrote this column for The Tennessean in August 2021<\/a>, which conveys my feelings on the need for this change. You can read the public notice and learn about our previous efforts to change the name at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mtsu.edu\/forresthall\">www.mtsu.edu\/forresthall<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Sincerely,<br \/>Dr. Sidney A. McPhee<br \/>President<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We posted today public notice of our intention to again petition the Tennessee Historical Commission for a waiver that would allow us to rename Forrest Hall, the building that houses our Army ROTC detachment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":510,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2064","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mtsu.edu\/president\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2064","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mtsu.edu\/president\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mtsu.edu\/president\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mtsu.edu\/president\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mtsu.edu\/president\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2064"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.mtsu.edu\/president\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2064\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mtsu.edu\/president\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/510"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mtsu.edu\/president\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2064"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mtsu.edu\/president\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2064"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mtsu.edu\/president\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2064"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}