Title 49, Education

(a) The Marshall T. Nave Paramedical School located in Elizabethton, under the governance of the state board of education, which includes the school's facilities, funds, assets, properties and liabilities, is transferred to, in order to become a unit of, the East Tennessee State …

(a) The Tennessee Center for Nursing Advancement is established within East Tennessee State University to address issues of nursing workforce needs, including issues of recruitment, retention, and utilization of nursing workforce resources that are within the current scope of the…

Subject to approval by its state university board, the University of Memphis is authorized to enter into an indemnity agreement with the United States nuclear regulatory commission, as required pursuant to 42 U.S.C. § 2210 and 10 C.F.R. § 140.95, in connection with its nuclear fa…

(a) There is established the Tennessee Center for Earthquake Research and Information, which shall operate as a division of the University of Memphis, to provide services such as the following:(1) Accurate, immediate reports for individuals, governmental agencies and the news med…

There is created a Small Business Development Center, which shall operate as a unit of the University of Memphis to conduct research and provide educational programs, technical assistance and general consultation to small businesses in Tennessee by utilizing cooperating instituti…

(a) Notwithstanding this title or title 4, chapter 29 to the contrary, if a state university board ceases to exist in accordance with the Tennessee Governmental Entity Review Law, compiled in title 4, chapter 29, or if a state university board is vacated by an act of the general …

The Tennessee higher education commission shall submit written notification of its assumption of the management and governance of a state university under this part to the appropriate joint evaluation committee created in § 4-29-103, as required under § 4-29-122.

(a) All rules promulgated by a state university board that are in effect upon the Tennessee higher education commission's assumption of the management and governance for the state university pursuant to this part continue in effect and are deemed to be rules of the commission for…

Upon the reconstitution of the local governing board of trustees, pursuant to § 49-8-201, for a state university for which the Tennessee higher education commission is serving as the state university board pursuant to this part, the reconstituted state university board shall assu…

The Tennessee higher education commission may promulgate rules to effectuate this part. The rules must be promulgated in accordance with the Uniform Administrative Procedures Act, compiled in title 4, chapter 5.

Tennessee State University shall be operated and maintained as a state university under the management and governance of a state university board, with all programs available to all qualified citizens, and shall continue to function as the 1890 land grant institution of the state…

(a) There is established, within Tennessee State University's Center for Aging, an extension of the center's program on the prevention and treatment of elderly abuse, neglect and criminal victimization. The program shall, upon request, receive technical assistance and support fro…

On or before July 1, 2023, and on or before July 1 of each subsequent year, Tennessee State University (TSU) shall submit a report to the governor and the members of the general assembly detailing the progress of improvements to TSU's facilities and infrastructure and how the imp…

The State Technical Institute in Knoxville established pursuant to § 49-8-101 and the Oak Ridge Branch of the Roane State Community College located on the Pellissippi Parkway in Knox County shall become one (1) institution, which shall be known as the Pellissippi State Community …

(a) The institution shall be under the management and control of the board of regents. (b) It is the legislative intent that the board of regents will maintain a permanent presence in Oak Ridge.

The institution is authorized to provide comprehensive one- and two-year occupational, college parallel, continuing education and community service programs.

The institution shall continue to provide high quality technical and scientific occupational programs and serve as a regional technical school to train engineering technicians for industry and prepare students to earn a living as a technician or technical worker in the fields of …

The board of regents is authorized to allocate appropriate funding, equipment and property from the Oak Ridge Branch of Roane State Community College to the new institution.

Employees of affected institutions who have achieved rank and tenure under policies of the board of regents and who continue as employees of the board of regents without a break in service shall retain that rank and tenure as employees of the board of regents.