Board of Regents quarterly meeting is June 12-13 at Northeast State Community College
The Tennessee Board of Regents will hold its next regular quarterly meeting June 12-13, 2025, at Northeast State Community College near Blountville, TN. The agenda includes, but is not limited to, consideration of proposed new and revised policies, compensation plans, faculty promotion and tenure recommendations, and various reports and updates.
The board’s committees will meet consecutively on Thursday, June 12, starting at 1 p.m. ET. The full board will convene at 9 a.m. ET Friday, June 13, starting with presentations by partnering college hosts Northeast State President Jeff McCord and TCAT Elizabethton President Heath McMillian. The board’s official business meeting will follow at 9:30 or when the presentations conclude.
All meetings will be held in the Ballad Health Center for the Performing Arts Theatre on the Northeast State campus at 2425 Highway 75, Blountville, TN. The committee and board meetings will be livestreamed and archived on the TBR website at: https://www.tbr.edu/board/june-2025-quarterly-board-meeting. The full agendas, an executive summary and board materials are posted at the same meeting link. Actions approved during the Thursday committee meetings will be considered by the full Board on Friday through reports of the committees.
The proposed new policy addresses Use of Artificial Intelligence. The proposed policy revisions involve the following TBR policies: Policy 2.03.00.04, Technical College Learning Support; Policy 3.01.01.00, Student Organizations; Policy 1.02.12.00, Requests to Address the Board, and Policy 1.07.00.05, General Policy on Alcoholic Beverages. Details are in the board materials, which may be downloaded at the board meeting link above.
In other action, the board will consider capital budget proposals for college construction and renovation projects for Fiscal Year 2026-27, FY 2025 Estimated Budgets and FY 2026 Proposed Budgets.
Other items on the board and committee agendas include, but are not limited to, informational updates on the TBR Strategic Plan and dual enrollment, faculty promotion and tenure recommendations, institutional requests for new and amended compensation plans, executive incentive pay, the system chancellor’s evaluation, election of the board’s vice chair for 2025-2026, a building naming request from Roane State Community College, and resolutions of appreciation for outgoing Board Members Ross Roberts and Cayden Keltgen, and for Walters State Community College President Tony Miksa, who is leaving at the end of the month to assume the presidency of a community college in Kansas.
The meetings are open to the public. Those wishing to attend may contact Dr. Mariah Perry, Board Secretary, at mariah.perry@tbr.edu or 615-366-3927 for security access or accommodations by 4 p.m. ET Wednesday, June 11.
Persons who want to request to address the Board may follow the process authorized by
TBR Policy 1.02.12.00 – Requests to Address the Board.
The June 2025 Board of Regents meetings will be livestreamed and archived at: https://www.tbr.edu/board/june-2025-quarterly-board-meeting. The full agendas, an executive summary and board materials are also posted at the same link.
The College System of Tennessee is the state’s largest public higher education system, with 13 community colleges, 24 colleges of applied technology and the online TN eCampus serving approximately 140,000 students. The system is governed by the Tennessee Board of Regents.