Board of Regents quarterly meeting is June 11-12 at Nashville State Community College

The Tennessee Board of Regents will hold its next regular quarterly meeting June 11-12, 2026, at Nashville State Community College. The agenda includes, but is not limited to, consideration of tuition and fees, capital budget requests, a proposed new academic program, new and revised policies, compensation plans, faculty promotion and tenure recommendations, and more.

The board governs Tennessee’s public community colleges and colleges of applied technology. Its committees will meet consecutively on Thursday, June 11, starting at 1 p.m. CT. The full board will convene at 9 a.m. CT Friday, June 12, starting with presentations by college hosts Nashville State and Tennessee Colleges of Applied Technology (TCATs) Nashville and Dickson. The board’s official business meeting will follow at 9:30 or when the college presentations conclude.

All meetings will be held in the theater in the Health and Humanities (H) Building on Nashville State’s White Bridge campus at 120 White Bridge Pike, Nashville. The committee and board meetings will be livestreamed and archived on the TBR website at: https://www.tbr.edu/board/june-2026-quarterly-board-meeting. The full agendas and executive summary are posted at the same meeting link. 

Most discussion on action items will occur during Thursday’s committee meetings. The committees’ recommendations will be considered for approval by the full board on Friday, through action on the committee reports.

TBR staff recommendations on student tuition and fees for Academic Year 2026-27 will be presented in Thursday’s Committee on Finance and Business Operations.

Staff is recommending a combined increase in tuition and mandatory fees (fees assessed to all enrolled students at a college, excluding course-specific fees) of 3.64 percent at TCATs and averaging 3.65 percent at the community colleges to help cover some, but not all, operating cost increases. The recommendations are based on funding up to 80 percent of cost increases not funded by state appropriations, encouraging campus cost-cutting and efficiency improvements.

The proposals are under the 4.5 percent ceiling on tuition and fee increases approved by the Tennessee Higher Education for the next academic year. Many TBR students are eligible for financial assistance covering tuition and mandatory fees and, in many cases, other costs.

Under the staff proposal, combined tuition and mandatory fees for an academic year (two semesters) at the 13 community colleges for students taking 15 credit hours per semester would range from $5,311 to $5,366. At the TCATs, proposed tuition and mandatory fees for an academic year of three trimesters would total $4,623.

In other action, the board will consider capital budget proposals for college construction and renovation projects for Fiscal Year 2027-28, which will first be presented Thursday in the Committee on Finance and Business Operations. If approved by the board, the project recommendations will go to the Tennessee Higher Education Commission for its consideration along with proposals from the state’s universities. All projects are ultimately subject to state legislative approval through the annual state budget process.

Other agenda highlights include:

• A proposed new Associate of Applied Science degree program in neurodiagnostic technology at Chattanooga State Community College.
• Operating budgets for FY 2026-27.
• President emeritus contracts.
• Faculty promotion and tenure recommendations.
• Compensation plans.
• Updates on workforce initiatives and state legislation affecting the system.
• New policies and policy revisions
• Building naming requests and resolutions of appreciation.

The complete committee and board agendas will be accessible at the meeting link above. 

The committee and board meetings are open to the public. Those wishing to attend may contact the board secretary at board.secretary@tbr.edu or 615-366-3927 for accommodations or security access by 3 p.m. CT, June 10.

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&sourc...). The request form is accessible as an attachment to the policy, in the upper right of the policy webpage, or will be provided upon request by emailing board.secretary@tbr.edu.

The meeting may include board members participating by electronic means.