ETSU Self-Guided Audio Tour

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• Explore The Charles C Sherrod Library 

  As you approach the Sherrod Library, you’ll walk through Borchuck Plaza, a free speech area on campus. If you have a social justice issue or something you want to alert the public about, feel free to do it here. The fountain featured here is a memorial to the first five African American students to integrate the university and are depicted on the wall to the right. 

  As you enter the library, you’ll immediately smell the delicious aroma of coffee and bagels from Einstein Brothers Bagels. You won’t see many books on the first floor, but it does hold many important student resources including the Testing Center and the Center for Academic Achievement which provides in- person and online  1 on 1 tutoring services for almost all ETSU courses and regular group tutoring sessions for especially rigorous classes.  

  At the base of the main staircase you can see a large screen that depicts the student study rooms located in the library. From here, you can see which are available and reserve one for your study group! If you are unsure of the services the Library has to offer, you can consult a student Library Ambassador or, for research help, make an appointment online with one of the librarians.  

  Make sure to venture upstairs to see the cozy study spaces, collections of books, beautiful views of campus, and on the third floor, the Archives of Appalachia which stewards nearly two miles of rare manuscripts, 250,000 photographs, and 14,000 books that document life in Southern Appalachia and are utilized by scholars around the world. 

• Explore The Reece Museum & Roger-Stout Hall 

  Rogers-Stout Hall is home to our social science and humanities programs including History, Psychology, Philosophy, Sociology and Anthropology, Criminal Justice, and Political Science. It also houses the Applied Social Research Laboratory which gives both undergraduate and graduate students the chance to work with regional clients, such as the Johnson City Police Department, to collect high-quality data to meet their evaluation or survey needs.  

  For students interested in Politics, ETSU has a partnership with the Washington Center which gives students the chance to spend a semester working on capitol hill! 

  Beside Roger Stout Hall is the B. Carroll Reece Museum.  Accredited by the American Alliance of Museums, the Reece Museum houses over 20,000 artifacts relevant to Appalachian culture and exhibits work from artists around the region, including our students. 

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• Explore Governor’s Hall 

  Governor’s Hall is one of our many residence halls on campus. Accommodations here house two students per room with their own private bathroom. Residence halls are spread out across campus and accommodations range from those with community-style bathrooms, to suite-style pairs of rooms with a shared living space, to rooms with their own kitchenettes, and apartment-style halls. Cost varies depending upon the type of facility and you can see a full list of residence halls on our website. To tour a residence hall, call the Housing and Residence Life Office, or stop by when you visit the next stop on our audio tour, Burgin Dossett Hall. 

  Located behind Governor’s Hall, through the archway to the left, is Tri Hall Field, a common space for Governor’s Hall, Davis Apartments, and Centennial Hall. It houses a built-in volleyball field and basketball courts and hosts community activities such as movie nights.  

  Don’t forget to look into our Living Learning Communities, where students can live in proximity to those of similar interests and background. These LLC’s often have built in upper-classman and faculty/staff mentors, co-curricular opportunities, and field trips. 

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• Explore Burgin Dossett Hall

  Burgin Dossett Hall is the main administrative building on campus and is an important resource as a prospective Buccaneers! Here you can speak to a representative from Financial Aid and Scholarships or Undergraduate Admissions, about the application process and financial aid options. Feel free to walk-in to either of these offices during business hours if you have specific questions. 

  The Office of the President, Dr. Brian Noland, is also located in Burgin Dossett. He holds open office hours during the week where ETSU students can speak to him personally! 

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• Explore Brown & Gilbreath Hall

  Gilbreath Hall is our oldest structure on campus and is named after ETSU’s first president, Sidney G Gilbreath. It is home to the College of Arts and Sciences administration as well as the Department of Mathematics and Statistics. The Bud Frank Theatre is also located here and hosts many student productions from the Theater Department throughout the year.  

  Across the street is Brown Hall where the labs, classrooms, and offices for Biological Sciences, Chemistry, Physics and Astronomy are located. 

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• Explore Ball, Mathes, & Burleson Halls

  The large structure in front you is comprised of three separate buildings: 

  On the left is Ball Hall which is home to the Department of Art and Design and the Slocomb Gallery. This gallery works to display innovative student work and diverse traveling exhibitions. Their overall goal is to support the academic experiences and the cultural development of the region through collaborative programing with various units and community institutions. One of my favorite exhibitions was about Dolly Parton and included a musical performance by ETSU’s Chorale, a talk concerning her impact on Appalachian and Pop Culture, and an art show.  

  The middle building is Mathes Hall where you can find the classrooms and practice rooms for students involved in the Department of Music. Even if you aren’t planning on majoring or minoring in music at ETSU, anyone can be a part of an ensemble, chorus, or marching band and be eligible for any associated scholarships! 

  The right building is Burleson Hall which houses the Department of Literature and Language. Mark this one on your map, because just about every ETSU student has at least one course in this building! 

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• Explore The Quad & Tree House Takeout 

  Welcome to the Quad- one of the main hubs for student activities, events, and hanging out. As a new student, this is where you may find your future ETSU family at our Student Activities and Organizations fair during the first week of classes, you could learn how to square dance and listen to amazing student bluegrass bands at Bucky’s Barn Dance, and attend concerts and pep rallies. To your right, you’ll find Treehouse Takeout a great place to swing by for a quick grab and go lunch, or order something made to order and eat it out on the patio. 
• Explore Brooks Gym  

  In the center is Brooks Gym where our Lady Bucs Basketball team practices and competes.  It houses our ROTC and military science programs as well as our Bluegrass, Old time, and Country Music department which was the first program of its kind to be established at any university. One more fun fact, if you are looking to take a PE credit at ETSU, this building holds the studio for Aerial Dance, it’s a blast. 
• Explore Sam Wilson Hall

  Next door is Sam Wilson Hall, home of the College of Business and Technology and the only single college to have an in-house career services center. There is a large focus on internship placement, networking, and real-world experiences in this college whether you are studying Business, Engineering Technology, Interior Architecture, or Digital Media. 
• Explore The Campus Center Building & Veterans Memorial 

  Next to Sam Wilson Hall is the Campus Center Building.  Several offices, such as The Department of Theatre and Dance, the Women’s Studies Program, and the Language and Culture Resource Center, are located here.  The Language and Cultural Resource Center works to increase awareness and understanding of diversity by involving faculty, staff, and students in experiences such as the annual Hispanic Student Day and offers services for translation and interpretation. Also found on the lower level of the Campus Center Building is the George L. Carter Railroad Museum.  The railroad museum is named in honor of George L. Carter, railroad mogul to our region and founder of the East Tennessee Normal School, which became East Tennessee State University. 

  Overlooking the quad is Veterans Memorial which features the American Flag and a flag representing every branch of the military honoring the brave ETSU affiliated men and women who have fought for our country. 

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• Explore The Ballad Health Athletic Center (Mini Dome) & Warf-Pickel Hall 

  The large white slope on your right is ETSU’s Ballad Health Athletic Center (Mini Dome). This “not so mini” structure houses an indoor stadium which is ETSU’s official indoor venue for tennis and track. In addition to athletics, the dome is home to the Clemmer College academic Department of Sports, Exercise, Recreation, and Kinesiology on the east side. The majority of ETSU’s physical education classes including fly fishing, horseback riding, golf, and marksmanship are taught in the Ballad Health Athletic Center (Mini Dome). This is a versatile space and a unique landmark of the campus. I can always spot it during a visit to the tip top of the 2,700 ft Buffalo Mountain located right off campus.  

  ETSU began as a teacher preparation school in 1911 and to your left is Warf-Pickel Hall, home to Clemmer College, offering our educator preparation programs as well as human serivces and counseling. Clemmer College also operates our Little Bucs Childcare Center that provides affordable care to children of students enrolled at ETSU under 5 years of age and employs both undergraduate and graduate students to support the full-time classroom teachers. It is also home to our Department of Media and Communication, featuring a fully-functional TV studio.

• Explore Public Safety & the Parking Garage

  On the front, you’ll see that ETSU has implemented an electronic sign which lets students know how many spaces are available. Gone are the days of driving through all the floors just to drive back out to no avail. There is plenty of parking on this side of campus and even if your class is on the other end, it’s only about a 15-minute walk. Also keep in mind that parking is not charged as a separate fee for students! 

  The Public Safety team is responsible for the overall safety and security of the ETSU campus and community. Several campus-wide initiatives have been put into place including Safe Voyage which allows students to request public safety escorts as they walk across campus and as you continue your tour, watch out for the 9-foot-tall red Emergency phones. When pushed, an ETSU Public Safety dispatcher will know where you are and dispatch an officer to your location while being able to communicate with you through the phone. 

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• Explore Wayne G Basler Center for Physical Activity

  The Wayne G Basler Center for Physical Activity is accessible to all ETSU students, faculty, and staff. This is not only the hub for traditional physical fitness, but also for building community and serves as a launch pad for adventure that spans throughout the region. As you stand outside the CPA you can see ETSU’s intermural fields to the right along with our tennis courts and high and low ropes courses around back! Many student organizations use the ropes courses for team building, it was certainly the highlight of our Expedition Leader training last summer!

  Inside the CPA, you won’t fail to notice our impressive rock-climbing wall to your right which is free for all students to use. To your left is our 8-lane indoor pool where the Swimming Sports Club practices. You can pick up a game of water polo, take a water aerobics class, or attend a “Scuba Diving Night” in this facility as well. 

  Further back is our 19,000 square foot weight and cardio room. It was intimidating to me at first, but I took advantage of the affordable personal training program, which got me up to speed. Between this and the multitude of indoor cycling, martial arts, yoga, aerobics classes in our state-of-the-art studios, I’ve found lots of fun ways to keep active and makes new friends. You can also see 4 courts used for basketball or volleyball and our 2 racquetball/squash courts tucked away to the right. Glance up and you can catch a glimpse of our 8th of a mile indoor track. 

  One more gem hidden in the CPA is our Outdoor Adventure Office which offers affordable “adventure trips” throughout the year. You can participate in anything from a day hike on one of the many mountains around ETSU’s campus and Johnson City, to weekend canoe trips, and spring break trips to Florida, where swimming with manatees is part of the package! You can even rent your own equipment for personal trips. 

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• Explore Wayne G Basler Center for Physical Activity

  The Wayne G Basler Center for Physical Activity is accessible to all ETSU students, faculty, and staff. This is not only the hub for traditional physical fitness, but also for building community and serves as a launch pad for adventure that spans throughout the region. As you stand outside the CPA you can see ETSU’s intermural fields to the right along with our tennis courts and high and low ropes courses around back! Many student organizations use the ropes courses for team building, it was certainly the highlight of our Expedition Leader training last summer!

  Inside the CPA, you won’t fail to notice our impressive rock-climbing wall to your right which is free for all students to use. To your left is our 8-lane indoor pool where the Swimming Sports Club practices. You can pick up a game of water polo, take a water aerobics class, or attend a “Scuba Diving Night” in this facility as well. 

  Further back is our 19,000 square foot weight and cardio room. It was intimidating to me at first, but I took advantage of the affordable personal training program, which got me up to speed. Between this and the multitude of indoor cycling, martial arts, yoga, aerobics classes in our state-of-the-art studios, I’ve found lots of fun ways to keep active and makes new friends. You can also see 4 courts used for basketball or volleyball and our 2 racquetball/squash courts tucked away to the right. Glance up and you can catch a glimpse of our 8th of a mile indoor track. 

  One more gem hidden in the CPA is our Outdoor Adventure Office which offers affordable “adventure trips” throughout the year. You can participate in anything from a day hike on one of the many mountains around ETSU’s campus and Johnson City, to weekend canoe trips, and spring break trips to Florida, where swimming with manatees is part of the package! You can even rent your own equipment for personal trips. 

• Explore William B Green Football Stadium

  This gorgeous stadium, completed in 2017, was built upon the reinstatement of our ETSU football program in the spring of 2015. On game days, the fields and parking lots around the stadium are packed with students, faculty, staff, community members, and alumni tailgating. Many student organizations and colleges have specific tailgating tents, I love hopping around the celebrations and making new connections as we all celebrate our Buccaneers! 

  ETSU houses Division 1 sports teams and is proud to be part of the Southern Conference. Along with our football team we have baseball, cross country, golf, soccer, softball, tennis, track & field, triathlon, volleyball, and basketball teams. Our basketball team qualified for the NCAA tournament in 2020. Students also have free access to all Division 1 sports games with their student ID!

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• Explore University Commons

  The area between the Culp Center and Bell Dr. Is called University Commons, this newly created green space is the “front door” of campus, highlighting the corridor from the Student Center to the Football Stadium. This space is meant for events, studying, and recreation, as it features a putting green, basketball court, shuffleboards and more! The university looks forward to extending University Commons all the way to the Football field in the near future. 
• Explore Ross Hall

  Ross Hall provides labs and classroom space to ETSU’s Department of Geosciences. In this department, students can choose a concentration. One concentration, Paleontology, utilizes the Center of Excellence in Paleontology and Natural History Museum in Gray, TN, just 20 minutes down the road. This center allows students to gain research experience through excavations, discovery, exhibits, and outreach programs. Any student can take advantage of exciting field trips to places like Death Valley, the Grand Canyon, and Hawaii.
• Explore Wilson-Wallace Hall

  Wilson Wallace houses our Engineering and technology-based programs. Faculty and staff from these programs worked with regional partners such as Eastman Chemical to produce face shields for local health clinics low on PPE during the COVID-19 pandemic.
• Explore Hutcheson Hall

  Hutcheson Hall holds our campus planetarium which hosts a variety of events and programs for ETSU students and the community every year. Students who are studying Nutrition or Rehabilitative Health Sciences take classes in this building. 

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• Explore Lamb Hall

  Lamb Hall is the hub for the College of Public Health and the College of Clinical and Rehabilitative Health Sciences. Our College of Public Health leads a number of initiatives in the region through their Center for Rural Health Research.  Undergraduate students utilize the Niswonger Village on the Eastman Valleybrook Campus, a public health simulation lab that replicates how people live and work in low resource settings. The College of Clinical and Rehabilitative Health Sciences helps students prepare for health careers right out of college, such as Dental Hygiene and Cardiopulmonary Science or for graduate school in rehabilitative sciences such as Speech Therapy and Physical Therapy. The Dental Hygiene program houses a dental clinic on campus where students can get their teeth cleaned for free! 

  Both colleges take part in extensive interdisciplinary training with the College of Nursing and make use of ETSU’s Interprofessional Education and Research center on the VA Campus.  Listen to the Interprofessional Education audio clip for more information about this unique opportunity! 

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• Explore Yoakley Hall

  Yoakley Hall includes the Military Affiliated Student Resource Center which is for family members of veterans, anyone who has served in the military as well as combat veterans. This space includes an exclusive lounge and study space as well as staff members dedicated to this population. 
  Yoakley is also home to the College of Graduate and Continuing Studies offering 120 high quality graduate and professional degree options.  

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• Explore The Pride Walk

  This pedestrian only road is a source of pride for the university. At the start of every fall semester this road is painted over and a new class of students have the chance to showcase what they care about and are involved in. Take a stroll down the Pride Walk and see if there are any clubs or organizations you want to join when you become a Buccaneer! This is also the site of the ETSU farmer’s market which comes to campus twice a week during most of the fall and spring semesters. You can purchase fresh produce from local farmers along with delicious snacks. I can never resist the homemade pretzels and donuts! 

• Explore Carter Hall

  Carter Hall is one of the oldest buildings on campus and is named for Mayella Carter, whose husband, George L. Carter donated the land on which ETSU now stands. This building is a co-ed residence hall of many different types and sizes of rooms. It also houses two Living Learning Communities, the Honors and Global LLCs.

  The first floor also houses offices for the Honors College, Office of Study Abroad, and Office of Nationally Competitive Scholarships.

  Prospective Honors students apply separately to Honors Academic Programs which embed opportunities for experiential learning and generous scholarship support for incoming freshmen, current students, and transfer students, depending on the program. These honors students take academically rigorous courses and are advised and incentivized to combine their academics with education abroad experiences, undergraduate research projects, local, national, and international internships, community-engagement activities, and applications for nationally competitive scholarships (such as Rhodes Scholarships, Truman Scholarships, and Critical Language Scholarships, among many others).

  Our Study Abroad Coordinator connects students to affordable and customizable programs that meet your needs and goals. We offer over a hundred different partnership programs with universities in 50 different counties around the world and you can study abroad during one of our breaks or for an entire semester. What’s great is that with many of these universities, students pay ETSU tuition, room and board!

• Explore Roy Nicks Hall

  Along the Pride Walk you’ll find Roy Nicks Hall which houses Appalachian Studies and Services, the only full department in the world devoted to the study of the Appalachian Region, as well as our College of Nursing. 

  Our nursing program is the largest in the state of TN and students in this program start their clinical rotation during their first semester in the program! ETSU operates over 30 clinics in the region and has a robust relationship with the local Ballad Health Care system.  

  The College of Nursing takes part in extensive interdisciplinary training with the College of Public Health and Clinical and Rehabilitative Health Sciences. This program makes use of ETSU’s Interprofessional Education and Research center on the VA Campus, listen to the audio clip for more information about the unique opportunity! 

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• Explore The Mary B. Martin Center for the Arts

  Right across State of Franklin Road you'll find two impressive centers for learning and creative expression. The Niswonger Digital Media Center is a state-of-the-art facility for students majoring in Digital Media. Students in this major can chose from concentrations such as digital animation, digital game design, digital visualization, and visual effects. ETSU has an impressive list of alumni who went on to work on such projects as Lord of the Rings, Avatar, Thor: Ragnarock, World of Warcraft and Guitar Hero. Be sure to check out our student portfolio page at etsudigitalmedia.com. 

• Explore The ETSU The James and Nellie Brinkley Center 

  Adjacent to the Niswonger Digital Media Center is the ETSU The James and Nellie Brinkley Center.  Originally purchased from the city of Johnson City in 2018, the The James and Nellie Brinkley Center is home to the Department of Computing.  The venue also houses meeting rooms and a ballroom, so you might find yourself at an event here!

• Explore The Niswonger Digital Media Center

  The Mary B. Martin Center for the Arts is ETSU’s newest addition, set to be complete by winter 2020. It will include a Grand Hall, Recital Hall, Black Box theater, as well as rehearsal and dressing space for student shows and ensembles. This facility is not only meant to showcase student talent but will also attract Broadway shows and national acts for the students and Johnson City community members to enjoy. 

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• Explore The ETSU Interprofessional Education and Research Center

  Undergraduate majors in the College of Public Health, Clinical and Rehabilitative Health Sciences, and Nursing have a strong focus on interprofessional education where students take general education courses, have study abroad opportunities and participate in simulation labs together. These labs are located in “Building 60” on the VA campus which is dedicated to helping all health students gain hands-on training in everything from emergency situations to the basics of inserting an IV in a multidisciplinary context like those they will find throughout their careers. This building holds four floors of simulation labs, research space, classrooms, conference rooms, student study space, and a food service area. 

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