Tennessee Board of Regents

1415 Murfreesboro Road, Suite 350

Nashville, TN 37217

Phone (615) 366-4400  Fax (615) 366-4464

PRESS RELEASE

 

                                                            CONTACT:      Mary Morgan

                                                                                615.366.4414

 

 

 


Tennessee Board of Regents to Meet March 27 and 28

 

Meeting Will Be at Chattanooga State Community College

 

                        Nashville, Tennessee, March 20, 2008—The Tennessee Board of Regents will meet in regular quarterly session at Chattanooga State Community College on March 27 and 28, 2008.  All standing committee meetings will be held in the auditorium of the C.C. Bond Humanities Building on the Chattanooga State campus. Committee meetings will begin at 12:30 p.m. EDT on Thursday, March 27. The first meeting will be that of the Committee on Student Life, which will be followed by the Committees on Academic Policies and Programs; Finance and Business Operations; Personnel; and Tennessee Technology Centers in that order. Committee meetings will continue in sequence until all are completed. Following the final committee meeting, the board will participate in a colloquium focusing on Chattanooga State’s “best practice” early college high school and advanced manufacturing training center at the area’s new industrial mega-site. More information about the colloquium as well as about meeting logistics may be found at http://www.chattanoogastate.edu/tbr/default.asp.  

The full board meeting will begin at 9:30 a.m. EDT on Friday, March 28.

                        All meetings are open to the press and the public as observers. Agendas and board materials are available in pdf format for download at http://www.tbr.state.tn.us/board_minutes/notebook.htm

under the heading March 2008 Quarterly Board Meeting. To view the various sections, click on the tab labeled “Bookmarks” on the left of the screen, and it will open a list of the sections in the materials.

 

The Tennessee Board of Regents is the nation’s sixth largest higher education system, governing 45 post-secondary educational institutions.  The TBR system includes six universities, 13 two-year colleges and 26 technology centers, providing programs in 90 of Tennessee’s 95 counties to over 180,000 students.

 

 

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