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Tennessee Board of Regents Chancellor John Morgan will recommend Youlanda Jones-Wilcox as the next director to lead the Tennessee Colleges of Applied Technology at Covington and Ripley.

Pending approval by the Tennessee Board of Regents Wednesday, Tracy D. Hall is in line to become the next president at Southwest Tennessee Community College.

Flora Tydings is expected to be named the next president to lead Chattanooga State Community College pending approval by the Tennessee Board of Regents at a special called meeting on May 27.

The Tennessee Board of Regents will convene a special called meeting at 9:30 a.m. CDT May 27 to receive recommendations for presidential vacancies at community colleges and the director position at the Tennessee College of Applied Technology – Covington/Ripley. Scheduled to meet the same day will be the Audit Committee, Finance and Business Operations Committee, and Committee Chairs. All of the meetings are scheduled at the TBR System Office in Nashville.

The inaugural class of nuclear professionals from the Tennessee Valley Authority began training Monday in a new workforce development program offered by Chattanooga State Community College.

In an effort to keep costs down and identify more efficient ways of operating, Tennessee Board of Regents colleges and universities have identified more than $15 million in recent savings, most of which has been reallocated to programs to support student services.

TnAchieves, the forerunner of Tennessee Promise, offered students two years of community college tuition-free.

Tennessee Tech University graduates are among the best-prepared in the state for successful careers, according to a study by the Brookings Institute’s Metropolitan Policy Program.

TTU is the top-ranked public university in the state; across all of Tennessee’s four-year institution, it is second to Memphis’ Rhodes College.

The forty-third annual commencement ceremony at Volunteer State Community College was the largest number of graduates participating in the ceremony in college history

Tables promoted various disciplines in MTSU’s College of Behavioral and Health Sciences, including fashion design, physical education, athletic training, and leisure, sport and tourism.

Roane State students are the first recipients of $1,250 NASA scholarships awarded to students at the college pursuing degrees in science, technology, engineering or math (STEM) fields. 

Art students recently pitched their dreams for their work to a panel of judges instead of taking a traditional final at Tennessee Tech University.

Pellissippi State Community College students Carly Baskette and Petr Stephanovich Bulkhak were recognized for outstanding academic achievement as part of the 2015 All-Tennessee Academic Team.

$10,000 donation for the W.H. Swain Scholarship Endowment provides scholarships for adult students enrolled at Roane State Community College’s Scott County campus.

The Finance and Business Operations Committee of the Tennessee Board of Regents will meet at the TBR System Office in Nashville at 9:30 a.m. CDT on Thursday, May 7. 

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

The finalists are

The recently completed program will help children and others to understand the effects of different human activities, including construction sites and farms.

Interviews Week of April 27 for 4 Southwest Tennessee Community College President Search FinalistsThe finalists’ application materials are available to view on the Presidential/Executive Searches website at TBR.edu/Southwest2015. Detailed campus visit schedules will be posted on the website as soon as they are finalized.

Industry leaders and others in higher education joined MTSU officials in celebrating the awarding of a $614,000-plus National Science Foundation grant to recruit qualified female and minority applicants for the mechatronics engineering program

MTSU will use a $120,000 grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities to will help higher education faculty improve their students’ understanding of diverse cultures.

The interdisciplinary program “will explore the historical roots of religious intolerance and conflict in the South along with successful examples of religious pluralism in Tennessee communities,” according to the grant proposal.

MTSU will join forces with Cleveland State Community College and Jackson State Community College to implement the program.