University of Tennessee President Joe DiPietro named Grady Bogue, a retired professor of leadership and policy studies at UT in Knoxville and former chancellor of Louisiana State University in Shreveport, to serve as interim chancellor.
Bogue will begin work Sept. 20, officials said.
Brown previously had announced he would stay in the job until his replacement was found, but he said this afternoon that he had reconsidered that plan.
Big Orange, Big Ideas. Hmmmm. I've never heard of leaving your home institution off of your conference registration. And how would word of it get back to the Chancellor? Seems a bit apocryphal, but that's just me. After all, even Otis Sistrunk claimed The University of Mars as his college. This is from Wesley Mills, writing in The Daily Beacon, UT's student newspaper. I'm impressed that their student newspaper in online. Chancellor Jimmy Cheek said that "Big Orange Big Ideas" is a tagline that represents the overall goal of the university. The purpose of the branding issue is communicating what UT is doing much more than a catchy slogan Cheek said.
One of the issues Cheek recognizes is the lack of national positive exposure that UT receives. He even noted that faculty members don't like to admit they're from UT.
"We have faculty members that go to conferences that don't put the University of Tennessee Knoxville down," he said. "How can you make us a better institution if people don't know where you are from."
Nashville State Community College, the first community college in Clarksville, opened its doors Thursday and will begin classes on Aug. 27. Dozens of local officials, students, faculty and supporters were present to show their support for the new educational asset in the growing community of Clarksville-Montgomery County.
The new school is expected to have rapid growth in its student population and a big effect on Clarksville‘s economic development.
“Our programs should place a lot of students in the job market,” said NSCC President George Van Allen. “What we hope to do is put more people to work and more students into the university setting. That’s our two primary purposes.”
In August 2011, Van Allen, along with Tim Hall, president of Austin Peay State University, and local state officials Senator Joe Pitts and State Rep. Tim Barnes, announced a satellite campus of Nashville State Community College would occupy the former Clarksville Saturn dealership at 1760 Wilma Rudolph Blvd.
To get state funding for new programs in Tennessee higher education, older ones will have to go.
"What we want to know is: If you want to invest in something new, creative, what are you going to divest? Most great businesses do that," Gov. Bill Haslam said Thursday at a roundtable of legislators and business and higher education leaders in Chattanooga.
Still, while he said he's committed to ending Tennessee's decades-long practice of slashing post-secondary education funding, it doesn't appear that new funding will be available anytime soon.
Haslam spoke at the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga in the seventh and last in a series of statewide discussions. The listening tour was meant to inform the governor's policy decisions as he sets out to overhaul higher education.
With continued cost increases, particularly for Medicaid, Haslam said, colleges and universities must prioritize where they spend their money. The state has cut higher education funding for decades, putting more burden on families and students through tuition and fee hikes.
"When we look at capital for post-secondary education, we're going to look at: Are we putting that where the demand is? ... I think you'll see us funding post-secondary education more strategically because of some of these conversations," Haslam said.
"Part of the issue is on us. And part of it's on post-secondary to figure out how we're going to do this in a more effective way."
