Press Releases

The Tennessee Board of Regents canceled its Committee on Finance and Business Operations meeting previously scheduled for March 13. The meeting will be rescheduled at a later date.The other two open committee meetings scheduled for March 13 – Audit Committee and Committee Chairs – will meet as scheduled at the TBR central office in Nashville.The Audit Committee meeting will begin at 10:30 a.m. CT, and the Committee Chairs will meet at 12:45 p.m. Agendas for both meetings are available online at www.tbr.edu.

Three open committee meetings – Audit, Committee Chairs, and Finance and Business Operations* – will be held at the Tennessee Board of Regents central office in Nashville on Tuesday, March 13.

*(NOTE - THE FINANCE AND BUSINESS OPERATIONS COMMITTEE MEETING HAS BEEN CANCELED.)

The Audit Committee meeting will begin at 10:30 a.m. CT. The agenda includes:

Tennessee Gov. Bill Haslam will lead a conversation with Tennessee college and university leaders Tuesday about the future of postsecondary education and workforce development.

The Tennessee Board of Regents Ad Hoc Committee on Capital Outlay and Capital Maintenance will hold a meeting via telephone on Thursday, March 8, at 2 p.m. CST to discuss the revised capital outlay prioritization formula.The meeting is open to the public and the press as listeners. Those wishing dial-in information for the call should contact Monica Greppin-Watts at monica.greppin-watts@tbr.edu or 615-366-4417 before 4:30 p.m. CST on March 7.The Tennessee Board of Regents is the nation’s sixth largest higher education system, governing 46 post-secondary educational institutions.

The search for a new president at Tennessee State University is expected to begin in May with the engagement of a search firm to attract a strong pool of applicants from across the country.

The Finance and Business Committee of the Tennessee Board of Regents will hold its next telephonic meeting at 3 p.m. CST on Thursday, March 1. The committee will continue reviewing background information and materials related to mandatory and incidental fee requests and discuss principles to guide consideration of fee requests for fiscal year 2012-13.The meeting is open to the public and the press as listeners. Those wishing dial-in information for the call should contact Monica Greppin-Watts at monica.greppin-watts@tbr.edu or 615-366-4417 before 5 p.m. Feb.

The Tennessee Board of Regents will hold a telephonic meeting beginning at 3 p.m. CST on Thursday, Feb. 23, to review and act upon a recommendation to appoint Lynn Kreider as the director of the Tennessee Technology Center in Murfreesboro.Kreider is the former president at Colby Community College in Kansas. He holds a doctorate in education and a Master of Science degree from Wilmington University.

College students use tech tools for everything from ordering pizza to playing games. Now the same technology software is being used to help them decide which courses will help them graduate faster, which courses will result in better grades, and even what subject to choose for a major.The technology, developed by Austin Peay State University’s provost Tristan Denley, uses data to first identify the course requirements for the student’s major, then find the classes in which the student is most likely to perform well.

The three finalists for the presidency of Volunteer State Community College will participate in interviews and campus forums Feb. 28 through March 2. The finalists, Bonny Copenhaver, provost of Motlow State Community College; Jerry Faulkner, vice president for Academic Affairs at Cleveland State Community College; and Michael McDonald, State Representative - 44th District, will each interview with the Presidential Search Advisory Committee on Wednesday, Feb. 29.The committee interviews will begin with Faulkner at 1:15 p.m. CST, Copenhaver at 2:45 p.m. and McDonald at 4:15 p.m.

The Finance and Business Committee of the Tennessee Board of Regents will hold a telephonic meeting at 3 p.m. CST on Thursday, Feb. 9. The committee will review background information and materials related to mandatory and incidental fee requests and discuss principles to guide consideration of fee requests for fiscal year 2012-13.The meeting is open to the public and the press as listeners. Those wishing dial-in information for the call should contact Monica Greppin-Watts at monica.greppin-watts@tbr.edu or 615-366-4417 before 5 p.m. Feb.