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The presidential search advisory committee for Tennessee State University met today to outline the search process and agree on a schedule for future meetings.

The committee’s next meeting and any other meetings where individual applicants or candidates are identified will be closed to the public in order to comply with a new state law. The law provides that identities of candidates for chief executive officer of a Tennessee public higher education institution remain confidential unless the candidate is selected as a finalist for the position.

Three finalists for the presidency of Roane State Community College will participate in interviews, campus forums and community receptions Aug. 27 - 30.

Four candidates were initially selected by the committee to interview, but one has since withdrawn.

The search advisory committee for a new president of Tennessee State University will meet Aug. 27 following a public forum about the search process.The open forum is scheduled for Monday, Aug. 27, from 11 a.m. until noon in the Poag Auditorium of the Humanities Building on the TSU campus. Members of the Greenwood/Asher & Associates executive search firm contracted to lead the search will be on hand to discuss the search process and answer questions from campus and community members.The search advisory committee will conduct its first meeting from 1 – 3 p.m. in the same location.

The presidential search advisory committee for Roane State Community College selected four finalists today. Each will visit the college’s Roane County campus and Oak Ridge campus the week of Aug. 27 for a series of interviews and open forums.The finalists are

The Senate Higher Education Subcommittee hearing today allowed Tennessee State University and Tennessee Board of Regents officials to demonstrate student grades were assigned accurately by faculty and not inappropriately changed by campus administrators.The hearing was called by Subcommittee Chairman Senator Jim Summerville after local and national media publicized one faculty member’s allegations of grade changes by administrators without faculty consent.

The Senate Higher Education Subcommittee hearing today allowed Tennessee State University and Tennessee Board of Regents officials to demonstrate student grades were assigned accurately by faculty and not inappropriately changed by campus administrators.The hearing was called by Subcommittee Chairman Senator Jim Summerville after local and national media publicized one faculty member’s allegations of grade changes by administrators without faculty consent.

The presidential search advisory committee for Roane State Community College met today to outline the search process and agree on a schedule for future meetings.

The Tennessee Board of Regents voted to increase tuition and fee rates today for the six universities, 13 community colleges and 27 technology centers it governs. The rates of increase are lower this year than in previous years.

The presidential search advisory committee for a new president of Roane State Community College has been selected and will meet for the first time Monday, July 9.

The meeting will begin at 12:45 p.m. EDT in the Dunbar Building Faculty Dining Room on the college’s main campus in Harriman.

Roane State’s current president, Gary Goff, announced in March his plan to retire at the end of October after leading the college for seven years. The new president is expected to be named this fall.

The Tennessee Board of Regents will meet in regular quarterly session at Southwest Tennessee Community College’s Macon Cove Campus in Memphis on Thursday and Friday, June 28 and 29.Committee meetings will begin at 1 p.m. CDT June 28 in the Bert Bornblum Library. Committees will meet in this order: Tennessee Technology Centers; Finance and Business Operations; Personnel and Compensation; Academic Policies and Programs; and Business, Community and Public Affairs. The full Board of Regents meeting will begin Friday, June 29, at 9:30 a.m.