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4 Committees Meet: Finance, Audit, Committee Chairs, Personnel
Location:   TBR Central Office - Nashville

The Finance and Business Operations Committee will meet at 10 a.m. CDT to consider maintenance fee and tuition rate recommendations.

 

The Audit Committee meeting will begin at approximately 11 a.m. The agenda includes: 

I.Informational reporting

a.Review of Comptroller’s Office audit reports

b.Review of internal audit reports 

II.Review of conflict of interest and related policies

III.Discussion on quality assessment review

IV.Non-public executive session

 

After a lunch break, the Committee Chairs will meet at 12:45 p.m. to address these agenda items:

I.Finance and business issues

II.Legislative review

III.Personnel and compensation 

IV.Update on TTC director’s search at Livingston

V.President emeritus contracts

VI.Draft June Board meeting agenda

 

The Personnel & Compensation Committee will meet immediately following to address recommendations for compensation plans. 

 

The four meetings are open to the public and the press with the exception of the non-public executive session of the Audit Committee. Those wishing to attend should contact Monica Greppin-Watts at monica.greppin-watts@tbr.edu or 615-366-4417 before 4:30 p.m. CDT June 3 so building security clearance can be arranged. Anyone with a disability who wishes to participate should use the same contact to request services needed to facilitate attendance. Contact may be made in person, by writing, by e-mail, by telephone or otherwise and should be received no later than noon June 3.

 

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TBR Quarterly Board Meeting
Location:   Walters State Community College

 Committee meetings will begin at 1 p.m. EDT June 20 in the Lyceum of the Student Services Building. Committees will meet in this order: Personnel and Compensation; Finance and Business Operations; Academic Policies and Programs; Business, Community and Public Affairs; and Tennessee Technology Centers.

The full Board will meet on Friday, when members will vote on the Finance and Business Operations Committee’s recommendations for tuition and fees. The committee recommends maintenance fee/tuition increases of 3 percent for each of the 13 community colleges across the state and ranging from 1.4 to 6 percent for the six TBR universities at its June 4 meeting. Students at the Tennessee Technology Centers will not see a maintenance fee increase. The recommendations are lower than recent years thanks to increased state-funded general operating dollars.

Other new business to go before the Board includes:

·      Report of the Personnel and Compensation Committee Meeting that Includes Faculty Promotional Increases and Approval of the System Compensation Plan Recommendations

·      Report of the Tennessee Technology Centers Committee Meeting that Includes a Recommendation for the New Director at the TTC - Livingston

·      Notice to the Board Regarding Change in the Bylaws 

·      Naming of the Tennis Complex at East Tennessee State University

·      Naming of the Health Sciences Complex at Volunteer State Community Colleges 

·      Resolution of Appreciation for Regent Bob Raines

·      Resolution of Appreciation for President Shirley Raines

·      Resolution of Appreciation for Director Ralph Robbins

·      Election of the Chairman and Vice Chairman for 2013-2014 

A full agenda and meeting materials are available on the TBR website athttp://www.tbr.edu/about/default.aspx?id=1390. All meetings are open to the public and the press as observers. Any member of the public or media who plans to attend should contact Monica Greppin-Watts at monica.greppin-watts@tbr.edu or 615-366-4417 before noon CDT Wednesday, June 19, so access can be arranged. The meetings are also accessible to view via live streaming video athttp://www.ustream.tv/channel/tennessee-board-of-regents using the password tbr2011.

Anyone with a disability who wishes to attend should contact Greppin-Watts to request services needed to facilitate attendance. Contact may be made in person, by writing, by e-mail, by telephone or otherwise and should be received by noon June 19 as well.


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6/21/2013
TBR Quarterly Board Meeting
Location:   Walters State Community College

 Committee meetings will begin at 1 p.m. EDT June 20 in the Lyceum of the Student Services Building. Committees will meet in this order: Personnel and Compensation; Finance and Business Operations; Academic Policies and Programs; Business, Community and Public Affairs; and Tennessee Technology Centers.

The full Board will meet on Friday, when members will vote on the Finance and Business Operations Committee’s recommendations for tuition and fees. The committee recommends maintenance fee/tuition increases of 3 percent for each of the 13 community colleges across the state and ranging from 1.4 to 6 percent for the six TBR universities at its June 4 meeting. Students at the Tennessee Technology Centers will not see a maintenance fee increase. The recommendations are lower than recent years thanks to increased state-funded general operating dollars.

Other new business to go before the Board includes:

·      Report of the Personnel and Compensation Committee Meeting that Includes Faculty Promotional Increases and Approval of the System Compensation Plan Recommendations

·      Report of the Tennessee Technology Centers Committee Meeting that Includes a Recommendation for the New Director at the TTC - Livingston

·      Notice to the Board Regarding Change in the Bylaws 

·      Naming of the Tennis Complex at East Tennessee State University

·      Naming of the Health Sciences Complex at Volunteer State Community Colleges 

·      Resolution of Appreciation for Regent Bob Raines

·      Resolution of Appreciation for President Shirley Raines

·      Resolution of Appreciation for Director Ralph Robbins

·      Election of the Chairman and Vice Chairman for 2013-2014 

A full agenda and meeting materials are available on the TBR website athttp://www.tbr.edu/about/default.aspx?id=1390. All meetings are open to the public and the press as observers. Any member of the public or media who plans to attend should contact Monica Greppin-Watts at monica.greppin-watts@tbr.edu or 615-366-4417 before noon CDT Wednesday, June 19, so access can be arranged. The meetings are also accessible to view via live streaming video athttp://www.ustream.tv/channel/tennessee-board-of-regents using the password tbr2011.

Anyone with a disability who wishes to attend should contact Greppin-Watts to request services needed to facilitate attendance. Contact may be made in person, by writing, by e-mail, by telephone or otherwise and should be received by noon June 19 as well.


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Danni B. Varlan
Major Gifts and Annual Giving Officer
East Tennessee Children's Hospital
2100 Clinch Avenue

Knoxville, TN 37901-5010
2nd Congressional District, 2010 – 2013
 

Danni B. Varlan 2Danni B. Varlan was appointed to the Tennessee Board of Regents on September 29, 2010, representing the second congressional district.

After serving for 11 years on the Board of Directors, Varlan joined East Tennessee Children's Hospital as the Major Gifts and Annual Giving Officer.  ETCH is a private, independent, not-for-profit pediatric medical center that has serviced children since 1937.  The 152 bed children's hospital is certified by the State of Tennessee as the only Comprehensive Regional Pediatric Center in East Tennessee and is accredited by the Joint Commission.

From 2002 until 2012, Varlan was the President of East Tennesseans for Airfare Competition (ETAC), a nonprofit business coalition created for the purposes of developing and implementing initiatives to bring competitively priced air service to McGhee Tyson Airport.  In this role, Varlan planned, developed, and implemented strategies to educate the community and businesses in the East Tennessee region on how to support and keep competitive airfare service in the regional market.  .

In addition to her professional positions, Varlan is active in her community.  She currently serves on the board of directors of  Habitat for Humanity where she is the chair-elect and the Knoxville Salvation Army Advisory Board.  She is a graduate of the 1998 class of Leadership Knoxville where she also served as the Program Director from 1999-2002.

Varlan has a Bachelor of Arts degree from Georgia State University in Atlanta, Georgia.   She and her husband, the Honorable Thomas a. Varlan,  have four college-aged children.