The University of Tennessee at Chattanooga has been designated a 2024-2025 College of Distinction and a Tennessee College of Distinction, a recent announcement said.

Tennessee school districts are finalizing their AI policies ahead of the 2024-25 school year as they navigate new legislation requiring guidelines on AI use in classrooms.

A recent report from the State Collaborative on Reforming Education (SCORE) found that school districts across Tennessee began the school year with 1,000 teaching vacancies.

A recent report by the Tennessee Charter Center found roughly 95 percent of the state's 44,000 public charter school students are students of color and supporters believe HBCUs might be be well positioned to provide a unique K-12 learning experience, especially with the important role HBCUs are already playing in educating the next generation of Black educators and professionals.

The University of Tennessee in Knoxville will soon welcome its newest class of Distinguished Tennessean Scholars this fall.

Vanderbilt University and Oak Ridge National Laboratory have announced a new partnership focusing on artificial intelligence research to develop technologies for national security, as U.S. universities continue to invest more in machine learning research and education programming.

Nashville State Community College broke ground this week on a Clarksville campus expansion that’s designed to serve students with new academic programs in healthcare, information technology, secondary education, and industrial process control.The expanded facility on Wilma Rudolph Boulevard will include a complete renovation of the existing building in addition to a second building and expanded parking. 

Tennessee students have until May 15 to complete their FAFSA applications and secure financial aid for the 2024-2025 school year, with public universities offering resources to assist.

A growing New York nonprofit is using a newly released report to cement data around the axiom that social capital — or who you know — is key for first-generation college graduates searching for their first job.The report by Basta, an organization that connects first-generation college graduates with careers, tracks the experiences of young job seekers, revealing that not all networks are the same. 

Daniela Castro Pu says the University of Tennessee Knoxville (UTK) felt like home almost immediately.Castro Pu is now weeks away from finishing her sophomore year at UT and she says the experience has been everything she’d hoped for but the ideal university match wasn’t always in the cards.Castro Pu says she might never have even considered the University of Tennessee if KIPP hadn’t offered a specific scholarship created for students like her.

Metro Nashville Public Schools (MNPS) announced a partnership with Vanderbilt Peabody College to create a new education program at John Early Middle School. The collaboration will create a lab school that provides students with education pathways that help bridging the gap between K-12 and higher education.The lab school will focus on STEAM programming and preparing students for success beyond John Early Middle School.

The turbulent rollout of a new federal financial aid application could mean thousands of low-income students miss out on college this fall.But one person feels especially perturbed by the botched implementation of the new Free Application for Federal Student Aid, or FAFSA.Lamar Alexander — former governor of Tennessee, U.S. education secretary and Republican leader of the Senate education committee — thought the FAFSA Simplification Act would be his legacy.

Students, faculty, and alumni gathered Tuesday night to celebrate a new chapter in Middle Tennessee State University’s (MTSU) work in political and global studies.The university is merging its existing Political Science and Global Studies departments into one new Political and Global Affairs department at its Spring Alumni Showcase. The departments have had plenty of overlap over the years, sharing many of the same students and faculty and the merger is part of a plan to adapt to changes in the future.

A Tennessee State University (TSU) student who lost his post on the university’s Board of Trustees last week says that controversial decision is a sign for supporters of Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs) to mobilize.Shaun Wimberly Jr. served as the student trustee on the board until Friday, when Governor Bill Lee signed legislation to vacate it. Wimberly joined other student leaders and TSU supporters in a press conference Monday morning to push back on what they say is an attack on HBCUs.

All ten members of the Tennessee State University (TSU) Board of Trustees may not continue serving the university in that capacity much longer.House Republicans in the Tennessee General Assembly led a vote Thursday to vacate the entire board, going back on a previous compromise to vacate just three members whose terms were set to expire in June.

The House Government Operations Committee advanced what supporters are calling a compromise in the proposal to vacate Tennessee State University’s (TSU) Board of Trustees.Last week the Senate Education Committee advanced its version of the bill that would vacate all ten members of the board and would allow Governor Lee to appoint eight of them.

Legislation that would vacate the Tennessee State University Board of Trustees and allow Governor Bill Lee to appoint eight new members advanced from the Senate Education Committee Wednesday on an 8-1 party line vote.Senator Kerry Roberts, R-Springfield, says he sponsored the bill as a response to the issues identified in an audit by the Tennessee Comptroller. Roberts told the committee that it’s time for a new vision and this change will be an opportunity for cooperation.

Viktor Nemykin heads up a chemistry department that’s ranked second in the world for its polymer program and boasts the third largest number of undergraduate credit hours on the University of Tennessee, Knoxville campus.As solid as the department’s foundation is academically, it couldn’t be standing on shakier ground physically.The department operates out of a 113 thousand square foot Buehler Hall that’s slowing sliding off the hill it sets on.

The House Higher Education Subcommittee killed another attempt to change discrimination protection policies at Tennessee universities and higher education institutions.Committee members voted down proposed legislation from Representative John Ragan, R-Oak Ridge, Monday that would have prevented state universities and universities that receive state funding from creating antidiscrimination policies or recognizing protected classes that are not recognized by the state.

University of Tennessee President Randy Boyd told members of the Senate Education Committee that there are three myths tied to higher education.Those myths are that no one is going to college, it’s unaffordable, and debt is inevitable.Boyd said the UT College System has seen total enrollment grow by 7 thousand students over the last five years and it’s planning to increase enrollment from 59 thousand students to 71 thousand students by the year 2030.