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Austin Peay This Week: Board of Trustees to meet Thursday, Friday

Austin Peay This Week

(Posted Sept. 14, 2020)

On Sept. 17-18, the Austin Peay State University Board of Trustees will host its fall meetings. To watch the meetings live, visit .

The board will host a work session at 12:30 p.m. that Thursday. The Academic Affairs Committee will meet after the work session at 1:30 p.m., with the Student Affairs Committee, the Business and Finance Committee, the Executive Committee and the Audit Committee meeting consecutively thereafter.

The full board will meet at 9 a.m. on Friday, Sept. 18. The Board will discuss several important items, such as a statement of qualifications for the presidential search, the proposed board schedule for 2021 and the naming of an athletics facility.

To view meeting materials such as the agenda, visit /president/board-of-trustees/board-meeting-schedule-and-materials.php.    

For information on the meeting, contact the interim Secretary to the Board at 931-221-7559.

Paul Collins' "Following myself around the house"
Paul Collins' "Following myself around the house."

Last week to see two Austin Peay professors’ work at Cheekwood 

You have until Sept. 20 to see the work of two Austin Peay State University professors in a pandemic-themed exhibit at Cheekwood Estate & Gardens in Nashville.

Cheekwood’s “@home” exhibit invites people to “reflect upon the past, observe the present and hope for the future” as they navigate the works of four Nashville artists as they encountered the pandemic.

The artists include Austin Peay’s Paul Collins and Alex Blau. Collins is an associate professor at APSU, and Blau is an adjunct professor at APSU who also teaches at Vanderbilt University.

The other artists in the exhibit are Nuveen Barwari and KJ Schumacher. You can read more about the artists and the exhibit at .

To learn more about Collins and to see his work, visit . To learn more about Blau and to see her work, visit . Collins and Blau are husband and wife.

To learn more about the Department of Art + Design at Austin Peay, go to .

For more information about visiting Cheekwood, visit .

Last week to see the ‘Spectacle’ exhibit at The New Gallery in person

Anyone wishing to see Austin Peay State University’s recently reopened Spectacle exhibit at The New Gallery can do so without having to visit campus.

Gallery Director Michael Dickins has posted on YouTube a 360º/4k VR video walk-through experience of the exhibit. You can see the video at . 

If you want to see the exhibit in person, the gallery’s fall hours (which are subject to change) are 10 a.m.-3 p.m. Tuesday-Thursday. You also can visit by making an appointment with Dickins. Curator talks are available to classes/groups of less than 15 people.

If you visit in person, you must wear a mask and maintain physical distancing from other patrons.

For more information about visiting, contact Dickins at dickinsm@apsu.edu.

The exhibition is open through Sept. 18. The virtual walk-through experience will be available indefinitely. All events are free and open to the public.

Download the PeayMobile app for self-screening, QR code check-ins

Austin Peay State University’s app PeayMobile has two essential functions that help the University fight the spread of the novel coronavirus that causes COVID-19: a self-screening form that creates a daily health pass to campus and a QR code reader that checks you into campus buildings. 

Don’t miss President Whiteside’s livestream every Wednesday

Austin Peay Interim President Dannelle Whiteside every Wednesday delivers a live message on Facebook and Instagram. The times vary a bit but are always around lunchtime. Visit Facebook or Instagram Wednesday morning to see when the livestream will be that day.

Whiteside’s latest livestream happened at 12:30 Sept. 9, and she discussed active COVID-19 case and quarantine numbers.

You can see Whiteside’s latest livestream below:

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To see the livestream, go to  or IGTV at .

Other Austin Peay happenings this week:

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