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Higher-education leaders brief Senate Education Committee on capital needs, workforce expansions and campus growth
Summary
The University of Tennessee system, the Tennessee Board of Regents and the University of Memphis told the Senate Education Committee about deferred-maintenance backlogs, workforce-training growth, and requests for targeted recurring and capital funding, including a recurring request for UT Southern and additional capital-maintenance funding.
Chancellors and presidents from Tennessee's public higher-education systems spoke to the Senate Education Committee about capital maintenance needs, workforce-training programs and modest recurring support requests.
Flora Tydings, chancellor for the Tennessee Board of Regents, highlighted recent workforce-training accomplishments: TBR reported more than 1,003,650 workforce training hours last year and a 48% increase in TCAT workforce training hours, serving more than 37,000 individuals and hundreds of employers. TBR requested a recurring $2.273 million appropriation to expand a center for workforce development and outlined capital projects already approved, including TCAT Sumner County expansion and TCAT…
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