Board of Regents Committee Chairs, Personnel & Compensation Committee, Audit Committee to meet May 27

The Tennessee Board of Regents committee chairs will meet Wednesday, May 27, 2026, to receive informational updates in advance of the full board’s next quarterly meeting in June, including a preliminary presentation of proposed tuition and fees for academic year 2026-27. The board’s Personnel and Compensation Committee and Audit Committee will hold business meetings following the committee chairs meeting.
The committee chairs meeting will convene at 8:30 a.m. CT/9:30 a.m. ET, followed consecutively by the Personnel and Compensation Committee and the Audit Committee. The meetings will be held by teleconferencing and will be live-streamed on the TBR website at https://www.tbr.edu/board/may-2026-committee-chairs-personnel-compensation-and-audit-committee-meetings, except for a portion of the Audit Committee required by state law to be confidential. Agendas and materials for the meetings are posted at the meeting link above.
The committee chairs meeting is informational, with no votes or official action. In addition to the proposed tuition and fees preview, the agenda includes review of four proposed new TBR policies, proposed revisions to 14 existing policies, and a proposed new associate of applied science program in neurodiagnostic technology at Chattanooga State Community College, and updates on external affairs activities and the system’s ERP (enterprise resource planning) modernization project.
The Personnel and Compensation Committee agenda includes consideration of systemwide compensation strategies.
All proposals for tuition and fees, new policies, policy revisions, new programs, and compensation will be considered by the full board and its committees during their next meetings June 11-12 at Nashville State Community College. Agendas, details and materials for that meeting will be posted on the TBR website at https://www.tbr.edu/board/june-2026-quarterly-board-meeting when they are complete in early June.
The May 27 Audit Committee agenda has both informational reports and action items detailed in the meeting link above, including reporting on highlights of audit findings and recommendations, audit reports and reviews, systemwide internal audit and university updates, and action items on revisions to fiscal year 2026 internal audit plans, internal audit charters, the systemwide internal audit budget for fiscal year 2027, and revisions to the TBR internal audit policy.
Upon request to board.secretary@tbr.edu no later than three days prior to the meeting, we will make space available at the TBR system office in Nashville for public viewing of the livestream of the meeting for those otherwise unable to view it directly on the TBR website above.
Persons who want to request to address the Board may do so no later than three days prior to the meeting by following the process authorized by TBR Policy 1.02.12.00 – Requests to Address the Board (https://tbr.navexone.com/content/dotNet/documents/?docid=33&app=pt&source=unspecified&public=true). The request form is accessible as an attachment to the policy and will be provided upon request to the Board Secretary.
The meetings will be held by teleconferencing and will be live-streamed on the TBR website at https://www.tbr.edu/board/may-2026-committee-chairs-personnel-compensation-and-audit-committee-meetings,
The College System of Tennessee is the state’s largest public higher education system, with 13 community colleges, 23 colleges of applied technology, and the online TN eCampus serving approximately 170,000 students. The system is governed by the Tennessee Board of Regents.