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Finance and Business Operations Committee Meets
Location:   Telephonic
Start:   2:00 PM
End:   4:15 PM

 The committee will discuss the Stark Loan Fund and continue discussions related to maintenance fee and tuition rate proposals. The full Tennessee Board of Regents will vote on any tuition and fee recommendations at its June 21 quarterly meeting at Walters State Community College in Morristown.

The meeting is open to the public and the press as listeners. Those wishing dial-in information for the call should contact Monica Greppin-Watts at monica.greppin-watts@tbr.edu or 615-366-4417 before 4:30 p.m. CDT May 15. 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 4:30 p.m. May 15.


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Policy No. 5:02:01:03

Subject: Faculty Proficiency in Oral and Written English

The Tennessee Board of Regents recognizes that the ability to communicate effectively is an essential skill necessary for all academic personnel to perform successfully in Board of Regents Institutions and Tennessee Technology Centers. Therefore, pursuant to Senate Joint Resolution 211 adopted by the 1984 General Assembly and to the accreditation standards of the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools (4.4.1), all TBR institutions shall ensure that all faculty at Board of Regents institutions are proficient in oral and written English. The Board hereby sets forth the following minimum guidelines for evaluating candidates.

1. By January 1, 1985, each institution and technology center shall develop written procedures for review and evaluation of English language competency of candidates for appointment to or tenure in a teaching position. The Board hereby sets forth the following minimum guidelines for evaluating faculty. At a minimum candidates shall demonstrate:

(a) An ability to speak and write English clearly;

(b) An ability to understand written and spoken English; and

(c) An ability to communicate effectively in an academic environment (for example, previous successful employment in an academic institution).

No individual shall be appointed to a teaching position or recommended for tenure in such a position on any campus or other institutional unit of an institution or technology center unless the chief academic officer or technology center director certifies in writing to the president or other chief administrator that such individual can communicate effectively with students in the English language.

The foregoing criteria are to be used strictly as a measure of a candidate's ability to communicate effectively as an instructor and shall not be utilized to arbitrarily disqualify applicants of certain nationalities.

2. Each institution shall establish procedures for providing assistance and improving the written and spoken English competency of currently employed teaching personnel who are identified as needing such assistance.

 

Source: TBR Meeting, December 14, 1984; September 23, 1994


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