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New TCAT at Stanton opens as state's newest technical college campus
06/14/2024

Hundreds of West Tennesseans joined Gov. Bill Lee, Sen. Bill Hagerty, members of the Tennessee Board of Regents, TBR Chancellor Flora W. Tydings, and other state and local officials Friday, June 14, in opening Tennessee College of Applied Technology at Stanton, the state’s newest technical college campus.

JSCC students greet Regents Ross Roberts, MaryLou Apple, Danni Varlan, Thomas White
06/13/2024

The Tennessee Board of Regents Thursday approved tuition and fees for the upcoming academic year, capital budget requests for Fiscal Year 2025-26, and a new associate degree program in nuclear technology at Roane State Community College.

The board also appointed Heath R. McMillian as the next president of Tennessee College of Applied Technology Elizabethton, to succeed President David Hicks, who is resigning June 28.

TBR earned a 5th place award for Middle Tennessee's Top Workplace by the Tennessean
06/12/2024

The Tennessee Board of Regents (TBR) has been recognized as a 2024 Top Workplace by the Tennessean – an honor that acknowledges companies ranked by their employees as the best places to work in the state of Tennessee. TBR earned a 5th place ranking in the midsize category among 28 other businesses and organizations.

Chattanooga State, Nashville State, Pellissippi State Community Colleges awarded innovation grants
06/10/2024

The Tennessee Board of Regents has awarded grants to three community colleges to foster innovation in corequisite learning support models to improve long-term student success. Corequisite learning support enables students to earn college credit while also receiving the additional support they need to be successful. 

Selected through a competitive request for proposals (RFP) process, the colleges and their projects are:

Tennessee Board of Regents to meet Oct. 31 to consider criteria for next president of TCAT Memphis
06/07/2024

The Tennessee Board of Regents will hold its next regular quarterly meeting Thursday, June 13, at Jackson State Community College. The agenda includes, but is not limited to, consideration of recommendations for tuition and fees for Academic Year 2024-25, capital budget requests for Fiscal Year 2025-26, appointment of the next president of Tennessee College of Applied Technology Elizabethton, and a new associate degree program in nuclear technology at Roane State Community College.

Tennessee Board of Regents to meet Oct. 31 to consider criteria for next president of TCAT Memphis
05/29/2024

At its June 13 quarterly meeting, the Tennessee Board of Regents will consider tuition and mandatory fee increases totaling 4.88 percent at the state’s technical colleges and from 4.58 to 5.37 percent (an average of 5.2 percent) at the community colleges, under recommendations approved May 29 by the board’s Finance and Business Operations Committee.

News Title Post date
Two academic leaders from Tennessee community colleges selected for prestigious Aspen Presidential Fellowships 04/30/2018
Finance & Business Operations Committee to meet April 30 to begin review of tuition, mandatory fees for 2018-19 04/27/2018
First class of TNTrained graduates ready to assist in Tennessee’s jobs recruitment efforts 04/16/2018
Board of Regents approves criteria for next Northeast State Community College president, new degree programs, changes in student incidental fees 03/29/2018
Search Advisory Committee for next president of Tennessee College of Applied Technology Murfreesboro meets April 2 03/27/2018
Board of Regents quarterly meeting is March 29; agenda includes criteria for next president of Northeast State Community College, student incidental fee changes 03/23/2018
Carrington Fox named College System of Tennessee’s Outstanding Technical Student of the Year 03/21/2018
College System of Tennessee's 2nd Advising Academy focuses on adult learners 03/19/2018
Board of Regents appoints next presidents of Motlow State and Nashville State community colleges 03/13/2018
Board of Regents to meet March 13 to consider recommendations for new presidents of Motlow State, Nashville State community colleges 03/06/2018
Two Tennessee community colleges are finalists for prestigious national excellence awards 02/28/2018
TBR Finance & Business Operations Committee to meet Feb. 20 02/14/2018
2018 All-Tennessee Academic Team honored at 22nd annual celebration 02/14/2018
Students, presidents participate in College System's Day on the Hill 02/14/2018
Search committee selects 4 finalists for presidency at Nashville State Community College 01/31/2018
Finalists selected for presidency of Motlow State Community College 01/31/2018
Educators, economic development professionals convene first TNTrained class 01/31/2018
TBR Finance & Business Operations Committee to meet Feb. 6 01/31/2018
Educators examine High Impact Practices for student success 01/30/2018
College system selected to work on two high-level national student success initiatives 12/20/2017

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