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TBR - The College System of Tennessee today announced the 13 members of the inaugural Emerging Leaders Fellowship class, representing faculty and staff from community and technical colleges across the state.

The Emerging Leaders Fellowship is designed to cultivate the leadership potential of rising professionals and administrators within the state’s system of community colleges and colleges of applied technology.

Members of the Emerging Leaders Fellowship Class of 2027 are:

Tennessee’s community and technical colleges are honoring veterans on their campuses – students, faculty, and staff members – during Veterans Day activities across the Tennessee Board of Regents (TBR) system.

As part of the ceremonies recognizing and honoring all who served and are still serving, one at each college is also being awarded the Chancellor’s Commendation for Military Veterans, a special recognition launched in 2020 by TBR Chancellor Flora W. Tydings.

The Tennessee Board of Regents committee chairs will meet Thursday, Nov. 12, 2026, to receive informational updates and reports in advance of the full board’s next quarterly meeting in December. The board’s Personnel and Compensation Committee and Audit Committee will hold business meetings after the committee chairs session concludes.

Motlow State Community College has swept the Tennessee Community College Athletic Association (TCCAA) Region 7 Women’s Soccer top honors. Bucks Head Coach Andy Lyon is the TCCAA's Region 7 Coach of the Year. Not only is Libbie Trainor the conference's Freshman of the Year, but the forward from Middlesborough, England, captured TCCAA Player of the Year honors.

An outstanding October featured four more ribbon-cutting ceremonies and a groundbreaking that will transform aviation industry workforce development across west Tennessee. 

Jackson State Community College, Tennessee College of Applied Technology (TCAT) Jackson, the Greater Jackson Chamber and nuclear and nuclear supply chain industry partners gathered for the first-ever West Tennessee Nuclear Summit on Sept. 30. This inspiring event brought together leaders from across Tennessee to share insights about business and job opportunities that support the region's and state’s continued nuclear energy resurgence.

TBR – The College System of Tennessee is launching Project RISE, an innovative effort designed to improve learning and classroom success for community college students enrolled in learning support courses. Funded by Ascendium Education Group, the project will pilot and evaluate a more intensive tutoring model at two Tennessee community colleges from Spring 2027 through Spring 2029.

The Tennessee Seamless Alignment and Integrated Learning Support (SAILS) program at TBR – The College System of Tennessee has been recognized by the American Academy of Arts & Sciences as a Promising Practice. The recognition is part of the Academy's national initiative, "Thriving After High School: Community, School, Service, and Work."

The designation places SAILS among a select group of programs nationwide. These programs show innovative ways to help learners move from high school to college, careers, service and civic life.

TBR – The College System of Tennessee has selected 22 faculty members from across the state as the inaugural AI Fellows Class of 2026-27. The AI Fellows Program is an initiative of the TBR AI Learning Collaborative. It builds on the system's ongoing work in AI literacy, responsible implementation, professional learning and workforce readiness. Fellows will turn the TBR Student AI Literacy Competency Framework into practical, discipline-specific classroom experiences. Their focus goes beyond technical skills.

A consortium of Tennessee’s 13 community colleges has been awarded a $7.6 million U.S. Department of Labor grant for workforce development activities, including the creation of short-term career certificate programs eligible for new Workforce Pell student scholarships.

The proposed Workforce Pell-eligible programs will be developed within five high-priority industry sectors identified by the state, including Advanced Manufacturing, Logistics and Distribution, Information Technology including Artificial Intelligence, Healthcare, and Sustainable and Nuclear Energy.