A record-setting 12 months for Tennessee Promise

The Tennessee Larger Training Fee introduced Monday that the Tennessee Promise program noticed a report variety of candidates—greater than 67,000—from the Class of 2025. This system, launched in 2015, is a last-dollar free tuition scholarship for the state’s neighborhood school college students. When the Tennessee Promise utility interval closed Nov. 1, this system had acquired roughly…

Tennessee plans 10 % payment on sports activities tickets for athlete pay

The College of Tennessee at Knoxville plans so as to add a ten % surcharge to soccer and different sports activities tickets starting subsequent 12 months to assist generate among the anticipated $20 million that universities like it could be capable of pay athletes below a proposed authorized settlement governing use of gamers’ names, photos and likenesses….

Tennessee college-going fee on the rise

The Tennessee Greater Training Fee not too long ago reported the biggest year-over-year improve within the state’s college-going fee because the 2015 launch of Tennessee Promise, a last-dollar free tuition scholarship for group school college students. Greater than half—56.7 p.c—of Tennessee public highschool graduates within the Class of 2023 instantly enrolled in school, a rise of…