Students returning in the fall can count on higher tuition fees, by how much depends on what the Tennessee legislature does to balance the budget this summer. Each summer the presidents from each of Tennessee schools meet with TBR officials to fix tuition costs for the upcoming year. David Zettergren ...
A vote by the Tennessee Higher Education Commission today would cut state funding from the University of Memphis Athletic Department and developmental classes. That means each of those departments will have at least $1 million less next year and maybe more than that after details are finalized. These ...
Could economics, history and physics end up on the endangered list? The programs are among 31 at The University of Memphis the Tennessee Higher Education Commission has identified as producing a low number of graduates, according to a study released Thursday. THEC conducted the study to be used as a ...
A simple majority vote is all the Tennessee Higher Education Commission needs to pass a proposal Thursday that would terminate state funding to Tennessee university athletic departments and developmental classes. The proposal would also limit enrollment, raise admissions standards and make The University ...
Dr. Jerri Nielsen wants people to know that “to change your life, you just need to change your mind.” Nielsen received international fame in 1998 for performing an emergency biopsy on a cancerous tumor in her breast while isolated at the South Pole, but said that surviving the polar frosts of Antarctica ...
They were separate, but not equal. Elma Roane can remember when the U of M’s women’s athletics were in the physical education department. With an operating budget of only $300, the goal was to produce gym teachers, not athletes. Title IX changed all that. Signed into law June 23, 1972, by President ...
The University of Memphis is doing its part to commemorate April 4, 1968, the day Martin Luther King, Jr. was assassinated in Memphis, this Sunday. There will be a showing of the movie “At The River I Stand” at 2:30 p.m. in the Rose Theatre, followed by a panel discussion with four Memphians who ...
Looking for a gift for the graduate? Give them something they’ll always remember: Bricks are Forever. The U of M is selling personalized black granite bricks to be placed in the new Student Plaza, which is now under construction between the Administration Building to the west and Scates Hall to the ...
When Jack Hurley grades tests from his upper level history classes, he often notices the students who consistently score lower have something in common — They attended community colleges their first years of school. “They just don’t have the writing skills,” said Hurley, chair of the history ...
The University of Memphis is drawing near the end of what has been a three-year-long process to procure a satellite campus at the former Memphis Navy hospital. The Tennessee Board of Regents voted last week to allow The U of M to apply for the federal government property which was abandoned in 1997. ...
