For June, the Tennessee Tech Alumni Book Club will read Talking to Strangers: What We Should Know About the People We Don’t Know by Malcolm Gladwell. The Alumni Book Club is open to anyone with a Tech connection including faculty, staff, students, alumni, and friends. If you’d like to participate, please join our Facebook group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/254358412421446
We’ll discuss Part 1 on June 5. Happy reading!
The Center for Rural Innovation held its annual Eagle Works competition on April 18, 2020, and a special congratulations goes to Agriculture student Annalicia Larsen for winning the Rural Reimagined award of $2,500 for the innovative idea that could most impact rural communities! Annalicia’s “Working Women Design Co.” provides pants specifically designed for working women that are both functional and trendy. Annalicia found her inspiration to design pants through her struggle to find ones that she liked to wear while working on her family’s farm growing up. She states, “Just because I’m in Agriculture doesn’t mean I can’t have cute and trendy clothes on. Women have always been in Agriculture, but it’s getting more popular! My overall goal is to serve these women and give them clothes they love to work in.” Rural Reimagined sees a bright future of impacting rural through Working Women Design Co. Wings up, Annalicia! Stay tuned for upcoming stories and updates!
The next Crawford Alumni Center Trivia Night will be May 29 at 7 p.m. CDT on our Facebook page, and the theme is the 90s! Our host will be dressed in her 90s best, so put on some M.C. Hammer pants and grab a Trapper Keeper to keep score! Be sure to follow us on Facebook for the latest information about upcoming trivia nights: https://www.facebook.com/tntechalumni
The Center for Rural Innovation (TCRI) is proud to announce its partnership with the Local Business Resource Collective (LBRC), a COVID-19 intervention taskforce with a mission to save small businesses and jobs in the rural Upper Cumberland region. The LBRC is a partnership between the TCRI, the Cookeville Small Business Development Center, the Biz Foundry, and WCTE Upper Cumberland PBS. TCRI Director Michael Aikens states, “We want the entrepreneurs of the Upper Cumberland to know the LBRC is a one-stop-shop to receive no-cost resources to help their businesses survive and thrive throughout the pandemic and beyond.” One free resource the LBRC offers is themed weekly community Zoom calls where business owners can interact with subject matter experts from Tech and the community to discuss topics surrounding remote working strategies, continuity and contingency planning, legal matters, finance, and more.
Do you still love to play Toss Across? Does the sight of a harvest gold appliance fill you with nostalgia? Then this Crawford Alumni Center Trivia Night is for you! Join us on Friday, May 15 at 7 pm CDT on our Facebook page for 1970s Pop Culture trivia! The host will be dressed in her disco best, so feel free to pull out those bell-bottoms, dress for the decade, and share photos of your costume while you play live trivia with us! https://www.facebook.com/tntechalumni
Congratulations on finishing spring semester! The newest Project AWAKEN newsletter is now available at https://www.tntech.edu/awaken/newsletters.php.
Click to read about everything that Project AWAKEN did this semester. Best wishes for a healthy & safe summer!
The campus climate survey is ending soon!!
Please take 20-30 minutes out of your busy schedule and complete the campus climate survey. The survey was sent to your Tech e-mail on Wednesday, January 29th from Student Affairs, and it will close on April 30th.
We value your thoughts and opinions AND they will help shape our current campus community culture!!!
The campus climate survey is ending soon!! Please take 20-30 minutes out of your busy schedule and complete the campus climate survey. The survey was sent to your Tech e-mail on Monday, April 20th from Academic Affairs, and it will close on April 30th.
We value your thoughts and opinions AND they will help shape our current campus community culture!!!
Join the Women’s Center, Counseling Center, and Project AWAKEN in raising awareness of sexual assault by participating in Denim Day TODAY!! All you have to do is wear denim and share a picture on social media (tag Project AWAKEN for a chance to win a prize).
Why denim? Denim Day was originally triggered in the late 90s when a teenager who was sexually assaulted by her driver’s training instructor was blamed for her assault since she was wearing tight jeans. Denim Day started internationally in response to this case; wearing jeans annually on Denim Day has become a symbol of protest against erroneous and destructive attitudes about sexual assault.
Check out the Facebook Event for the rest of the details: https://www.facebook.com/events/693157038087562/
Join the Women’s Center, Counseling Center, and Project AWAKEN in raising awareness of sexual assault by participating in Denim Day on Wednesday, April 29th! All you have to do is wear denim and share a picture on social media.
Why denim? Denim Day was originally triggered in the late 90s when a teenager who was sexually assaulted by her driver’s training instructor was blamed for her assault since she was wearing tight jeans. Denim Day started internationally in response to this case; wearing jeans annually on Denim Day has become a symbol of protest against erroneous and destructive attitudes about sexual assault.
Check out the Facebook Event for the rest of the details: https://www.facebook.com/events/693157038087562/