Nashville, TN – Tennessee Governor Bill Lee has announced Reconnect to Workforce, a partnership between the Tennessee Higher Education Commission’s Tennessee Reconnect program and the Department of Labor and Workforce Development that will assist up to 500,000 Tennesseans claiming unemployment benefits to earn a college degree while fulfilling work search requirements.
 Tennessee Governor Bill Lee
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Austin Peay State University Board of Trustees forms search committee to find new APSU president
August 22, 2020 |
Clarksville, TN – During a special called meeting on Friday, August 21st, 2020 Austin Peay State University’s Board of Trustees established a 23-member search committee to help find a highly qualified individual to serve as the University’s 11th president.
 Austin Peay State University Board of Trustees. (APSU)
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Tennessee’s Community, Technical Colleges assist in project to help protect Health Professionals
March 23, 2020 |
Nashville, TN – Tennessee’s community and technical colleges are playing a major role in a crash project by the state’s public higher education system to manufacture face shields to help protect Tennessee health professionals during the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic.
Using 3D printers, Tennessee Colleges of Applied Technology at Elizabethton, Jackson, Morristown, Murfreesboro and Shelbyville, and Jackson State and Pellissippi State community colleges manufactured 858 headbands from Saturday through Monday afternoon that will be used for plastic face shields.
 Effort produces over 1500 pieces of protective equipment in three days.
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Tennessee Governor Lee to Recognize Five Outstanding Veteran State Employees at Annual Veterans Day Event
November 6, 2019 |
Nashville, TN – Tennessee Governor Bill Lee, Tennessee Department of Veterans Services Commissioner Courtney Rogers and Tennessee Adjutant General Major General Jeff Holmes will recognize five veteran state employees and more than 450,000 Tennessee veterans of all ages and eras at the annual Veterans Day event on Friday, November 8th at 11:00am CST on Tennessee Tower Plaza in Nashville.
 Tennessee Governor Bill Lee
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Austin Peay State University hosts Veterans Reconnect Conference for state’s higher ed leaders
October 17, 2019 |
Clarksville, TN – Tennessee Higher Education Commission (THEC) executive director of the Mike Krause was speaking to a college administrator recently about how to serve veterans on college campuses and sensed tentativeness.
 Retired Brig. Gen. Scott E. Brower, Austin Peay State University military advisor in residence, moderates a panel. (APSU)
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Tennessee Higher Education Increases Enrollment for the Fourth Consecutive Year
October 10, 2019 |
Nashville, TN – The Tennessee Higher Education Commission (THEC) today released the latest student enrollment data for the fall 2019 semester, indicating an increase of 1,541 students, which is a 0.7% increase compared with 2018.
 This is our fourth year of continued enrollment growth in Tennessee.
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APSU’s Dannelle Whiteside named Tennessee Innovation and Leadership fellow
September 10, 2019 |
Clarksville, TN – Austin Peay State University (APSU) vice president for legal affairs Dannelle Whiteside has been named to the inaugural cohort of the Tennessee Higher Education Leadership and Innovation Fellows program.
 Austin Peay State University vice president for legal affairs Dannelle Whiteside. (APSU)
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THEC reports No Student Data Exposed in Tennessee Vendor’s Suspected Data Breach
September 3, 2019 |
Nashville, TN – The Tennessee Higher Education Commission (THEC) has announced that no student information was compromised when unauthorized server access occurred on a state vendor’s system last month.
 Tennessee Higher Education Commission reports No Student Information was Exposed during unauthorized server access.
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Tennessee Higher Education Commission Awards Veterans Reconnect Grant to Austin Peay State University
November 9, 2018 |
Austin Peay State University (APSU)
Clarksville, TN – Earlier this fall, the Tennessee Higher Education Commission (THEC) awarded Austin Peay State University (APSU) with a Veterans Reconnect Grant to support a new Military Pathway Pilot Project designed to help military and veteran students transition quickly and easily into college or new career fields.
 Retired Lt. Gen. Ronald Bailey and retired Brig. Gen. Scott E. Brower joined APSU’s senior leadership team.
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Tennessee Higher Education Commission reports College Enrollment Increases for the Third Consecutive Year
October 11, 2018 |
Tennessee Higher Education Commission (THEC)
Nashville, TN – The Tennessee Higher Education Commission (THEC) released college enrollment data for the fall 2018 semester, indicating that 221,775 students across the state enrolled in community colleges and public universities for the 2018-2019 academic year.
This marks the third consecutive year that postsecondary enrollment has grown across the state, and an increase of 1,656 additional students compared to fall 2017.
 Tennessee Higher Education Commission releases data showing significant increase in adult students.
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