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Tennessee Tech has secured some $32.4 million to put toward sponsored research projects, a record high. President Phil Oldham said that is approximately 40 percent higher than at this time last year. He said that this achievement was made possible through the tremendous work of faculty investigators involved in seeking out these funds. “Those that publish their work or present ... Read More »

Trudy Harper will serve another term as the Tennessee Tech Board of Trustees Chair. Harper’s term will now extend until July 2025. She was the only nominee. “I feel compelled to say before we vote, this wasn’t what any of us had expected, of course, I didn’t expect to do another two years,” Harper said. “Someone told me last night ... Read More »

A new student event center for the coming fiscal year and a resubmittal for an academic classroom building on the list of capital plans for Tennessee Tech. The items were discussed during Thursday’s Board of Trustees meeting. Vice President for Planning and Finance Claire Stinson said they have budgeted some $41 million for the new student event center, which will ... Read More »

The Tennessee Tech Board Of Trustees approved $154 in additional tuition and fees for the average in-state student at its quarterly meeting Thursday. The increase is a 2.92 percent increase on tuition, or roughly $135 for a student taking 15 hours. The mandatory fees will increase 2.96 percent or roughly $19 per semester. Claire Stinson is Vice President for Planning ... Read More »

Tennessee Tech current freshmen enrollment numbers are down slightly from last year’s record, despite the highest application and admit numbers in the school’s history. Vice President of Enrollment & Communication Karen Lykins said Tech received roughly 1,000 more applications this year. Lykins said her team continues to study the impact of September’s free application month. The Tennessee Higher Education Commission ... Read More »

The first graduates of the Roane to Tech Program walked this year. The program allows students to dual enroll at both Tennessee Tech and Roane State Community College. Roane State President Chris Whaley said the program began because more students transfer to Tennessee Tech from Roane State from any community college in the state. He said people from both schools ... Read More »

The Federal Reserve decided to pause interest rate hikes Wednesday, the first time it has done so over the last ten times it has met. Tennessee Tech College of Business Dean Tom Payne said that indicates the Fed’s desire to prevent accidentally overtightening. He said as the nation approaches a year under historic inflation conditions, the Fed is only just ... Read More »

Six Tennessee Tech students created a reality in which you step into scenes from war hero Sargent Alvin C. York’s world. Tech students spent six months on a capstone project in cooperation with Alvin C. York State Park. Professor Bill Eberle said Park Ranger David Brady had brought the project idea to them. “We had done a project with him ... Read More »

Rachel Smalling became involved in Tech’s Southeastern Chamber Music Institute in high school. Smalling participated in the program for three years and consequently enrolled in Tech’s music program as a university student. A four year summer internship at Sewanee’s music festival gave Smalling experience in the administrative side of music festivals. So when Tech’s summer chamber program dissolved around 2016, ... Read More »

Tennessee Tech has made changes to its housing policies after last fall’s housing shortage. Vice President of Enrollment Karen Lykins said the department looked at last year’s situation where some students started the semester in hotels, she said they wanted to change to be more effective and efficient in making sure incoming Freshmen have on-campus housing. “Freshman were in first ... Read More »