Sidney A. McPhee is a Bahamian-born American educator currently serving as the President of Middle Tennessee State University (MTSU).
[1] McPhee's presidency also coincided with more than $400 million in improvements in academic, athletic and campus facilities – either proposed, under construction or competed – including the 2-square-foot, $147-million Science Building that opened in January 2015.
[1] A book of his photographic essays, China: Through the Eyes of A University President[1], published in July 2012, was sponsored by the Hanban-Confucius Institute and released internationally.
McPhee co-chaired the Tennessee Legislative Retreat Task Force on Higher Education and was recently reelected to a second three-year term as a commission member of the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools.
[1] McPhee was the subject of a sexual harassment lawsuit in 2003 filed by an employee, which was heard by Tennessee Supreme Court on June 6, 2007.
Among other improprieties, McPhee was alleged to have rubbed his pelvic area against the body of the employee as well as making lewd references to his "seven wood".