The Tennessee Board of Regents will hold a special meeting via telephone at 2:30 p.m. CST on Friday, Feb. 13, to approve a number of agenda items.
The Search Advisory Committee members for a new president of Chattanooga State Community College have been selected and will meet for the first time on Tuesday, Feb. 10, following a public forum about the search.
A public forum to discuss the criteria and search process for the next president of Chattanooga State Community College is scheduled for Tuesday, Feb. 10, beginning at 1 p.m. EST in Room 124 of the campus Omniplex. The Search Advisory Committee will then hold its first meeting at 3 p.m.
The Finance and Business Operations Committee of the Tennessee Board of Regents will meet via telephone at 1 p.m. CST on Wednesday, Jan. 28.
The Search Advisory Committee members for a new president of Southwest Tennessee Community College have been selected and will meet for the first time on Monday, Jan. 26, following a public forum on Southwest’s Macon Cove campus about the search process.
Dr. Fannie Hewlett, former provost and vice president for Academic Affairs at Chattanooga State Community College, will return to the campus to serve as Interim President beginning Feb. 2.
President Barak Obama and Vice President Joe Biden spoke at Pellissippi State Community College in Knoxville, Tenn., to announce the president’s proposed America’s College Promise program.
Members of the Tennessee Board of Regents discussed improved efficiencies within the Tennessee’s Community College System, approved a plan to offer reverse transfer degrees, and endorsed the system-wide 2015-2025 strategic plan, among other actions at its quarterly meeting in Nashville Dec. 11.
Officials broke ground on a new $35 million training center, designed as an innovative example of higher education partnering with private industry to provide a skilled and educated workforce for the community.
Members of the Tennessee Board of Regents plan to review Tennessee’s higher education funding models and projected funding gaps during a Board retreat on Dec. 10. A meeting of the TBR Committee on Personnel and Compensation will begin at 8:15 a.m. the next day, Dec. 11, and the full Board will then convene in regular quarterly session beginning at 9 a.m. CST in the Genesco Building Training Center.
