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Richard Locker
July 1, 2016

Veteran Tennessee journalist Richard Locker joined the Tennessee Board of Regents July 1 as interim communications director.

In his new role, Locker will coordinate and support communications, marketing, and web and digital media for the Board of Regents, which is the governing board for the state’s university and college system. The communications team is a division of the Office of the Chancellor.


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June 30, 2016

Starting this fall, area home-schooled high school students will have a chance to earn college credits and “get a slice of MTSU” by taking classes at the University College’s new Dual Enrollment Center.


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June 27, 2016

Instead of summer vacation at the beach, the Great Smoky Mountains National Park or another popular destination, local high school students Helene Hamo and Edgar Lozano are conducting chemical research in an MTSU Science Building lab for two month.


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June 24, 2016

The Tennessee Board of Regents today approved the lowest increases in undergraduate tuition since 1983. Tuition rates at the six TBR universities, 13 community colleges and 27 Tennessee Colleges of Applied Technology will increase an average of 2.6 percent for the 2016-17 academic year.

 


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June 19, 2016 Volunteer State Community College

Volunteer State Community college at Livingston commemorated its 25th anniversary with donors, alumni.


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June 17, 2016

The Tennessee Board of Regents will meet in regular quarterly session at Northeast State Community College in Blountville on Friday, June 24, following a day of committee meetings on June 23. Committee meetings will begin at 1 p.m. EDT Thursday in the 1st Floor Theater of the Wellmont Regional Center for the Performing Arts. Committees will meet in this order: Audit, Finance and Business Operations, Personnel and Compensation, Academic Policies and Programs and Student Life, External Affairs, and Workforce Development.


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June 2, 2016

Give Austin Peay State University student Dominic Critchlow a balloon and a camera and he can quite literally show you the world.


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May 31, 2016

The Tennessee Board of Regents Finance and Business Operations Committee and Committee Chairs are scheduled to meet at the TBR office in Nashville on Tuesday, June 7.


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May 24, 2016

Anthony (Tony) Miksa, current vice president at McHenry County College in Crystal Lake, Ill., will be recommended by Tennessee Board of Regents Chancellor David Gregory as the next president to lead Walters State Community College.

The recommendation will go before the Board during a special called telephonic meeting on Friday, May 27, at 2 p.m. EDT/ 1 p.m. CDT.


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May 18, 2016

Two of Tennessee’s Community Colleges were chosen by the U.S. Department of Education to participate in a new federal program allowing low-income high school students to apply for Federal Pell grants to pay for dual enrollment courses.

Northeast State and Southwest Tennessee State community colleges join 42 other schools across the country chosen for the experimental program, which begins this summer and is expected to help about 10,000 students nationwide. This is the first time Pell grants will be used for students still in high school.


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May 4, 2016

The Finance and Business Operations Committee of the Tennessee Board of Regents will meet via telephone at 1 p.m. CDT on Wednesday, May 11.


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May 2, 2016

With news today that Governor Haslam will allow the faculty/staff campus carry bill to become law without his signature, Tennessee Board of Regents Chancellor David Gregory provided the following statement:


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April 26, 2016 Roane State Community College

Roane State Community College students studying geology will have the opportunity to work with faculty mentors at the University of Tennessee and participate in geoscience field workshops thanks to a National Science Foundation grant.


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April 11, 2016

Three finalists have been named to the short list of candidates in line to become the next president of Walters State Community College in Morristown. Each will participate in campus forums and community receptions next week.


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April 7, 2016

The MTSU Experimental Vehicles Program’s lunar rover team members used a new airless tire design and parts assembly to land a top-10 finish at this year’s NASA Human Exploration Rover Challenge.


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April 6, 2016

The Finance and Business Operations Committee of the Tennessee Board of Regents will meet via telephone at 1 p.m. CDT on Tuesday, April 12.

 

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April 5, 2016

National reports released today highlight TBR's work to transform developmental and remedial programs. The result is dramatic and impressive.


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April 4, 2016 Volunteer State Community College

Volunteerism was in the spotlight at Volunteer State Community College Tuesday as mayors from across Sumner County gathered to salute community service.


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March 30, 2016

A program to help students who need remedial support for college math and writing courses implemented across all Tennessee Board of Regents community colleges and universities last fall has proven so successful it has become a national model.

That was just one of the student success stories members of the Tennessee Board of Regents heard at their quarterly meeting today at Columbia State’s new Williamson Campus.


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March 24, 2016

The Tennessee Board of Regents will meet in regular quarterly session on Wednesday, March 30, at Columbia State Community College’s new Williamson campus, scheduled to open at the end of May.


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