Press Releases

The Tennessee Board of Regents will meet in regular quarterly session Thursday, Dec. 8, at the TBR Office in Nashville. The meeting will begin at 1 p.m. in the Genesco Training Center.

The Board will hear reports from and approve minutes of the Audit Committee, Ad-Hoc Committee on Conflict of Interest and Ad-Hoc Committee on Capital Outlay and Capital Maintenance.

Action items include approval of the October revised budget, institutional student disciplinary policies, system-wide legislative initiatives, and capital outlay priorities.

Brian Noland is expected to be named the ninth president to lead East Tennessee State University pending approval by the Tennessee Board of Regents on Monday.

The Board will meet via telephone at 1:30 p.m. CST on Monday, Nov. 21, to consider TBR Chancellor John Morgan’s recommendation for Noland to replace Paul Stanton, who will retire from ETSU on Jan. 14 after leading the campus for some 15 years.

The Tennessee Board of Regents will conduct a meeting via telephone beginning at 1:30 p.m. CST Monday, Nov. 21, to consider TBR Chancellor John Morgan’s recommendation for a new president at ETSU.

The Regents Online Degree Program will host a site review for continuing accreditation of its Master of Science in Nursing program. The public is invited to meet the visit team and share comments about the program in person at a meeting scheduled for Wednesday, Nov. 16, from 3:20 – 4:00 p.m. CST at the Tennessee Board of Regents Central Office in Room 338 of the Genesco Building located at 1415 Murfreesboro Road, Nashville, Tennessee, 37217-2833.

Three open committee meetings – Audit, Ad-Hoc Committee on Capital Outlay & Capital Maintenance, and Committee Chairs – will be held at the Tennessee Board of Regents central office in Nashville on Tuesday, Nov. 15.

The Audit Committee meeting will begin at 8:30 a.m. CST. The agenda includes:

Over the past two years, universities and community colleges in the Tennessee Board of Regents system have been rewriting course schedules, developing mentorships with local school systems, and rethinking the way teachers have traditionally been taught and trained in school.

The initiative is expected to transform education programs across the state and help Tennessee turn the corner on improving teacher and student performance.

The search advisory committee for a new president of East Tennessee State University narrowed the candidate pool to three finalists after wrapping up interviews with the eight round-one candidates today.

The three finalists will visit the ETSU campus next week to meet with a variety of university constituent groups, including faculty and staff, students and the community.

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The search advisory committee for a new president of East Tennessee State University has selected 8 candidates from a list of 49 to bring to Johnson City for the first round of interviews.

The round-one interviews will take place with the search advisory committee this Wednesday and Thursday, Oct. 19 and 20, in the A and B Ballrooms in the Millennium Centre. Following those interviews, the committee will decide which candidates to invite to return for meetings on the campus with ETSU constituent groups, including faculty, staff and students, during the week of Oct. 24-28.

The presidential search advisory committee at East Tennessee State University will meet Oct. 17 to review applicants for the ETSU president’s post at 10 a.m. EST in the East Tennessee Room of the D.P. Culp University Center.

Committee members will identify leading prospects for consideration, select candidates for the first-round interviews with the search committee, and discuss interview strategies.

The Tennessee Board of Regents met today at Roane State Community College, where it confirmed the hiring of a new vice chancellor for Community Colleges.

The board approved Chancellor John Morgan’s recommendation to appoint Warren Nichols, president of Volunteer State Community College, as the TBR vice chancellor for Community Colleges effective Oct 1.