{"id":2696,"date":"2025-12-04T20:10:44","date_gmt":"2025-12-05T01:10:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.mtsu.edu\/president\/?p=2696"},"modified":"2026-04-30T23:27:35","modified_gmt":"2026-05-01T04:27:35","slug":"university-extends-sympathies-to-family-friends-of-professor-mckinzie","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mtsu.edu\/president\/university-extends-sympathies-to-family-friends-of-professor-mckinzie\/","title":{"rendered":"University extends sympathies to family, friends of Professor McKinzie"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 20px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div>\n<p>The Blue Raider community extends its sympathies to the family, friends, colleagues, and students of Dr. Ashleigh McKinzie, associate professor of sociology and valued member of the MTSU community since 2017, who&nbsp;passed away earlier today.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Students who need support may reach out to MTSU Counseling Services (KUC 326-S, 615-898-2670) or, if after hours, call the 988 lifeline.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Faculty and staff who need support may contact the Employee Assistance Program at 1-855-Here4TN (1-855-437-3486) or visit&nbsp;<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/here4tn.com\/?fbclid=IwZXh0bgNhZW0CMTAAYnJpZBExVDd2cnB5b2NQaG9MWGFQTHNydGMGYXBwX2lkEDIyMjAzOTE3ODgyMDA4OTIAAR4HLUaKIfk-Fw_u7zTQZVRtBP0gm4KRz7dcjjzf6XH4CjhrdPXcen3AK2elfw_aem_bivkgzXVAvDB47iJAVy7SQ\">Here4TN.com.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Blue Raider community extends its sympathies to the family, friends, colleagues, and students of Dr. Ashleigh McKinzie, associate professor of sociology and valued member of the MTSU community since 2017, who&nbsp;passed away earlier today. Students who need support may reach out to MTSU Counseling Services (KUC 326-S, 615-898-2670) or, if after hours, call the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":25,"featured_media":487,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2696","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\/2696","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\/25"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mtsu.edu\/president\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2696"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.mtsu.edu\/president\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2696\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3020,"href":"https:\/\/www.mtsu.edu\/president\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2696\/revisions\/3020"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mtsu.edu\/president\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/487"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mtsu.edu\/president\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2696"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mtsu.edu\/president\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2696"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mtsu.edu\/president\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2696"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}