{"id":1962,"date":"2018-06-06T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2018-06-06T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.mtsu.edu\/blogtest\/update-on-forrest-hall\/"},"modified":"2026-04-15T15:46:05","modified_gmt":"2026-04-15T20:46:05","slug":"update-on-forrest-hall","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mtsu.edu\/president\/update-on-forrest-hall\/","title":{"rendered":"Update on Forrest Hall"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 20px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div><p>Earlier this spring, the Tennessee Historical Commission denied our petition to rename Forrest Hall.\u00a0 During a conference call with the Tennessee Attorney General, he explained that a conflict of interest could exist if that office represented two state entities on opposing sides of a lawsuit.\u00a0 Therefore, if we were to appeal, we would be required to hire outside legal counsel at our expense.\u00a0 After extended deliberation with key stakeholders, I have decided not to appeal that decision.<\/p>\n<p>I continue to believe that renaming Forrest Hall is the right thing to do.\u00a0 However, the cost of an appeal would be significant and there is a real possibility that we would not be successful.\u00a0\u00a0 Given these circumstances, I believe the money we would pay to retain outside counsel should instead be used toward our mission of supporting student success resulting in degree completion.\u00a0 Despite the fact that the name Forrest Hall will remain, our efforts to ensure that MTSU remains an inclusive place where all students and staff feel welcome will continue unabated.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Earlier this spring, the Tennessee Historical Commission denied our petition to rename Forrest Hall.\u00a0 During a conference call with the Tennessee Attorney General, he explained that a conflict of interest could exist if that office represented two state entities on opposing sides of a lawsuit.\u00a0 Therefore, if we were to appeal, we would be required [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":319,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1962","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\/1962","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=1962"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.mtsu.edu\/president\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1962\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3181,"href":"https:\/\/www.mtsu.edu\/president\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1962\/revisions\/3181"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mtsu.edu\/president\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/319"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mtsu.edu\/president\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1962"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mtsu.edu\/president\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1962"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mtsu.edu\/president\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1962"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}