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In August 2019, Kimberly Diei enrolled in a graduate program at the University of Tennessee at Memphis, where she’s studying to earn her doctorate from the College of Pharmacy by 2023.
But an anonymous complaint about Diei’s Twitter and Instagram posts put those hopes in jeopardy. In September 2019, someone reported her social media activity to the pharmacy college’s Professional Conduct Committee. The committee reprimanded Diei for violating the college’s professional standards.
A year later, after receiving yet another anonymous complaint, the committee investigated Diei’s online content again. Within four days, board members voted to expel her from the pharmacy program, deeming her social media posts too “sexual,” “crude,” or “vulgar.”
Nashville Tennessean
Higher education leader Mike Krause, an architect of the Tennessee Promise scholarship and the 2016 plan to create independent boards for six public universities, is leaving state government this week after driving a decade of transformational policies.
Krause, who most recently served as the executive director of the state s higher education commission, oversaw a suite of new programs that expanded access to higher education and made the Volunteer State a national leader. As Tennessee s profile grew in the higher education world, he became a high-profile spokesman for the state s public college system.
He will join the Nashville law firm Bradley Arant Boult Cummings next week as a senior advisor for government affairs and economic development.
Hundreds of Tennessee Department of Transportation emails and documents dating from late summer through mid-November show state and local officials expediting their way through technical barriers for a potential Amazon warehouse.
Proposed for the former Pine Lakes Golf Course at the corner of Pellissippi Parkway and Alcoa Highway, preliminary designs show the e-commerceâs distribution hub would sit on a 634,812-square-foot pad and stand about 100 feet tall.
The facility, nicknamed âProject Pearl,â could create 750-1,000 jobs should developer, Dallas-based Hillwood Investment Properties Inc., decide to build.
Alcoa City Manager Mark Johnson said Hillwood principals have not put pen to paper yet, but heâs expecting a decision in the near future.
UT System and Martin Methodist College: History, timeline of events leading up to vote
The Knoxville News-Sentinel 12/10/2020 Daniella Medina, Knoxville News Sentinel
University of Tennessee, Martin Methodist College announce partnership
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The University of Tennessee System s move to acquire Martin Methodist College, its fourth undergraduate college, is in its final stages.
The merging process that started in September is drawing to a close following a Board of Trustees vote Wednesday. The next step is to have it approved by the General Assembly and attorney general.
The acquisition of Martin Methodist College would be UT s newest campus in over 50 years. The last was UT Chattanooga in 1969. Martin Methodist was established in 1870 and is the only four-year and graduate institution between Sewannee in the east and Freed-Hardeman in the west.