Title 49, Education

(a) (1) Persons who otherwise meet admission requirements shall be admitted to a state college or university, at in-state tuition rates, if they are residents of the state, or if they are nonresidents whose bona fide place of residence is in a county of another state lying immedi…

(a) The board of regents and each state university board are authorized to establish from time to time reasonable and appropriate rules and policies defining residency of students, which shall be used for the purpose of determining whether or not out-of-state tuition shall be cha…

(a) Any state college or university under the direction of the board of regents or a state university board is authorized to maintain a training school for grades pre-kindergarten through twelve (pre-K-12), or any combination of grades pre-kindergarten through twelve (pre-K-12), …

(a) The governing board of each institution subject to this chapter is authorized and empowered to establish reserve officers training corps units in any public college or university under its jurisdiction, to execute and deliver bond, with or without surety, in such manner and o…

(a) (1) Austin Peay State University, East Tennessee State University, Middle Tennessee State University, Tennessee State University, Tennessee Technological University, the University of Memphis, and, subject to prior approval of the commissioner of finance and administration an…

(a) (1) The Tennessee higher education commission is authorized and empowered to develop reasonable and objective rules and standards for the purpose of determining when degree-granting institutions of higher learning under its jurisdiction have attained the status of a universit…

(a) All facilities of and any and all social, athletic and cultural functions sponsored by a state institution of higher learning, industry, state universities and colleges, technical schools, community colleges and state colleges of applied technology shall be available to all s…

(a) A referendum providing for an increase in that portion of the activity or maintenance fee received by the student government association may be held for student body approval or rejection. (b) The referendum shall be held at the election for student government association off…

(1) There is established the Joe L. Evins Appalachian Center for Crafts, which shall operate as a division of the Tennessee Technological University to:(1) Continue ownership and operation of the Joe L. Evins Appalachian Center for Crafts at Center Hill Lake, transferred to the u…

The Joe L. Evins Appalachian Center for Crafts shall be operated as a free-standing unit of Tennessee Technological University with a separate budget but with the ability to draw on university managerial, financial, technical and instructional resources.

(a) Every college and university is authorized and empowered to sell or convey any lot, plot or tract of land that has been acquired through purchase, gift, devise or by any other means; provided, that:(1) The land is unsuitable for use by the college or university at present or …

(a) Any person who has or who shall leave the employment of a public school system as defined in § 49-1-103 and become employed full time by a college or university as defined in § 49-8-101 shall be eligible to accrue annual leave from the date of employment by the college or uni…

(a) (1) The board of regents and each state university board shall establish a program whereby each of their respective institutions of higher education providing dormitory facilities and cafeteria services shall offer a room plan whereby students may pay for use of the facilitie…

(a) Notwithstanding any other law to the contrary, state universities and community colleges may set aside an amount not to exceed ten percent (10%) of the total amount of funds allocated for the procurement of personal property and services for the purpose of entering into contr…

(a) The community college satellite facility at Trenton, authorized by chapter 1085, § 41, item 6 of the Public Acts of 1990, is transferred to the ownership of the board of regents for the benefit of Dyersburg State Community College, which shall be responsible for the maintenan…

(a) (1) The board of regents, each state university board, and the University of Tennessee shall establish a grievance procedure for all support staff employees.(2) “Support staff” means employees who are neither faculty nor executive, administrative, or professional staff of any…

(a) If the department of human services does not at any time exercise its preference under § 71-4-503, the board of regents may award a contract to any qualified third-party provider to provide vending operations located in a residence hall or similar housing facility that relies…

By July 1, 2019, each state institution of higher education operated by the board of regents and each state university shall adopt a policy to allow American sign language courses to satisfy any foreign language requirements for admission to an undergraduate degree program.

There is created a new institution, which shall be known as the Southwest Tennessee Community College.

The Southwest Tennessee Community College shall be under the management and control of the board of regents.

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

The Southwest Tennessee Community College shall provide high quality technical and scientific occupational programs, serve as a regional technical school to train engineering technicians for industry and prepare students to earn a living as technicians or technical workers in the…

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 new institution.

The State Technical Institute at Memphis and Shelby State Community College, both established pursuant to § 49-8-101, are abolished. Their campuses, property, programs and assets shall be transferred to the Southwest Tennessee Community College.

Any legal or contractual rights, duties, obligations, or evidences of debt (powers and authorities) of Shelby State Community College and the State Technical Institute of Memphis shall not be modified, altered, amended or abrogated by this part and shall become the rights, duties…

The Nashville State Technical Community College is renamed the Nashville State Community College.

Nashville State Community College shall be under the management and control of the Tennessee board of regents.

Nashville State Community College is authorized to provide comprehensive one- and two-year occupational, college parallel, continuing education and community service programs.

Nashville State Community College 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 worke…

Any legal or contractual rights, duties, obligations or evidences of debt of the Nashville State Technical Community College shall not be modified, altered, amended or abridged by this part and shall become the rights, duties or obligations of the Nashville State Community Colleg…

(a) Recognizing the potential leverage and synergy that can be achieved by collaboration among the public and private entities, it is hereby declared that the University of Memphis, the University of Tennessee Center for the Health Sciences and St. Jude Children's Research Hospit…

This part is known and may be cited as the “Innovative School District Act.”

(1) As used in this part:(1) “Innovative school district” means an LEA, as defined in § 49-1-103, authorized by this part that is composed of schools serving students in any of the grades pre-kindergarten through twelve (pre-K-12), as training schools operated by a public univers…

(a) (1) A public university in this state that is a comprehensive doctoral-extensive institution of higher learning and the home to a public training school compendium that includes pre-kindergarten (pre-K) through any of the grades nine through twelve (9-12), and that provides t…

(a) Schools in an innovative school district must provide sequential instruction to students and educate students using curricula and educational programming aligned to the state academic standards adopted by the state board of education and that generate new and innovative educa…

Programs for special education, as defined in § 49-10-102, offered by an innovative school district must be informed by the research and evaluation goals of the district.

(a) An innovative school district may receive, control, and expend local and state funding for schools in its jurisdiction, and may seek, receive, expend, manage, and retain federal funding and grant funding and otherwise seek, obtain, expend, manage, and retain funding with the …

(a) Except as otherwise provided in this part, the director of schools for an innovative school district serves as the chief executive officer of the innovative school district and is responsible for overseeing the education, research, and evaluation, and other goals of the distr…

(1) Beginning January 15 following one (1) full school year of operation of an innovative school district and each January 15 thereafter, the local board of education for an innovative school district shall provide a report to the department of education. The report must include:…

Notwithstanding chapter 13 of this title, the innovative school district shall not authorize public charter schools.

Except as otherwise provided in this part or another law, an innovative school district has the same rights and responsibilities as an LEA with an elected school board. The state and political subdivisions of the state shall provide an innovative school district with the same ben…

(a) (1) The board shall consist of twenty-one (21) members, including four (4) ex officio members who shall be the governor, the commissioners of education and agriculture and the executive director of the higher education commission.(2) The executive director of the higher educa…

(a) (1) The board of regents is empowered to employ a chief executive officer of the board of regents whose office shall be located in Nashville.(2) The board shall define the chief executive officer's duties, and within budgetary limitations, fix the chief executive officer's co…

(a) (1) With respect to the institutions they govern, each state university board and the board of regents has the power to:(A) Select and employ the chief executive officers of the institutions and to confirm the appointment of administrative personnel, teachers, and other emplo…

(a) The board of regents and each state university board shall establish and adopt a code of ethics that shall apply to and govern the conduct of all appointed members of each board. (b) Notwithstanding any other law to the contrary, by a two-thirds (2/3) vote of its membership, …

In addition to all other authorized functions of the community colleges and state colleges of applied technology within the board of regents, each institution is authorized to contract and partner with local governments for the purpose of providing educational and workforce devel…