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1415 Murfreesboro Road, Suite
350
Nashville, TN 37217
Phone (615) 366-4400 Fax (615) 366-4464
Press Release
PRESS RELEASE CONTACT:
Mary Morgan
615.366.4414
Dr. Nate Essex Named
President of
Southwest Tennessee Community College
Chancellor Praises Outstanding Leadership During Merger
Nashville, Tennessee, June 8, 2001-The Tennessee Board of Regents (TBR)
yesterday unanimously voted to accept Chancellor Charles Manning's
recommendation that Dr. Nate Essex become the permanent president of Southwest
Tennessee Community College. In making his recommendation, 
Chancellor
Manning said, "Dr. Essex has done an outstanding job as interim president
at STCC under difficult circumstances and has smoothly and successfully merged
two disparate institutions into one. STCC is now poised to move forward with
excellence, and it is my belief that Dr. Essex is a leader who can and will make
that happen."
Dr. Essex has been interim president of STCC since its creation last year. Prior to that he served as special assistant to the chancellor in designing a structure and process for consolidating Shelby State Community College and the State Technical Institute at Memphis into one institution-Southwest Tennessee Community College. Since 1989, Dr. Essex has been dean and professor of the College of Education at the University of Memphis. Prior to joining the University of Memphis, Dr. Essex had a distinguished career spanning almost twenty years as a professor and administrator at the University of Alabama. He holds a Ph.D. in educational administration from the University of Alabama (1975), an M.S. in educational administration from Jacksonville State University (1972) and a B.S. in English and Science from Alabama A&M University (1964).
In accepting the appointment as president of STCC, Dr. Essex said, "As president, I will certainly do all within my power to earn and sustain the Board's confidence as we attempt to elevate STCC to one of the premier comprehensive community colleges in the region and one of the best in the nation. The ingredients are here-a talented and skilled faculty and growing community needs. STCC is poised to become a powerful force in meeting the needs of students, employers and communities in Shelby and Fayette Counties and the surrounding mid-South region."
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 to over 180,000 students in 90 of Tennessee's 95 counties.
