Board of Regents quarterly meeting is June 15-16 at Chattanooga State Community College
The Tennessee Board of Regents will hold its regular quarterly meeting next week at Chattanooga State Community College, with committee meetings on Thursday, June 15, 2023, and the full board on Friday, June 16.
The Board of Regents governs the state’s public community colleges and colleges of applied technology.
The Board’s standing committees will meet June 15, starting at 1 p.m. ET with the External Affairs Committee and continuing consecutively with the Workforce Development Committee, Finance and Business Operations Committee, Academic Policies and Programs and Student Life Committee, and the Personnel and Compensation Committee. The full Board will convene June 16 at 9 a.m. ET with a presentation by Chattanooga State President Rebecca Ashford and Executive Vice President Jim Barrott, followed by the agenda items. All meetings are in the Bond Humanities Building Auditorium on Chattanooga State’s main campus at 4501 Amnicola Highway, Chattanooga, TN 37406.
The meetings are open and will be live-streamed and archived on the TBR website at https://www.tbr.edu/board/june-2023-quarterly-board-meeting. Those wishing to attend should contact Mariah Perry by 3 p.m. Wednesday, June 14, at mariah.perry@tbr.edu or 615-366-3927 for security access or physical accommodations.
The agenda includes consideration of appointment of Heath McMillian as the next president of the Tennessee College of Applied Technology (TCAT) Jackson; criteria for the next president of TCAT Shelbyville; campus capital budget requests for fiscal year 2024-25; operating budgets and tuition for fiscal year 2023-24; compensation plans; proposed new and revised policies; a campus building naming proposal at Roane State Community College; informational updates on the TCAT Master Plan capital projects and the TCAT campus under construction at BlueOval City, and other items. Complete agendas, an executive summary, and board materials are posted on the meeting webpage listed above.
Agenda items recommended for approval by the committees on Thursday will be considered by the full Board as part of its review of the committee reports on Friday.
In addition to the committee reports, the full board on Friday will consider Chancellor Flora W. Tydings’ recommendation of Heath McMillian as the next TCAT Jackson president. McMillian came to TCAT Jackson in May 2022 as executive vice president to lead development of the BlueOval City Campus. He has been serving as interim president since October 2022 when former president Jeff Sisk was appointed executive director of the systemwide TBR Center for Workforce Development. McMillian previously served as executive director of economic and workforce development at Northeast State Community College. His resumé and other information are posted on the TBR website at https://www.tbr.edu/hr/executivesearches/president-tcat-jackson.
At TCAT Shelbyville, President Laura Monks plans to retire Sept. 1. The board will consider criteria for the next president, the first step in the search process.
Persons wishing to request to address the Board may follow the process authorized by TBR Policy 1.02.12.00 – Requests to Address the Board.
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.