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  • 2010 Formula Review Committee

    Outcomes Based Funding Formula Model Presentation

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  • 2009-10 Improving Teacher Quality Grants RFP

    The Improving Teacher Quality State Grants represent the largest federal initiative for using professional development to improve teaching and learning. ...More

 

 

Our Mission

The Tennessee Higher Education Commission (THEC) was created in 1967 by the Tennessee General Assembly (TCA 49-7-202) for the purpose of coordinating and supporting the efforts of post-secondary institutions in the State of Tennessee. One of its statutory requirements is to create a master plan for the development of public higher education in Tennessee.

The mission for Tennessee's twenty-first century system of higher education is to elevate the overall educational attainment of citizens in the State through increased accessibility to mission-focused institutions, which deliver educational services on campus, as well as through a planned network of off-campus instruction and to prepare citizens responsibly for success in the new century by providing high quality teaching and research in an environment that serves the needs of its consumers.