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  • Steam and Hot Water Outage Wednesday, July 15

    There will be no hot water or steam on campus Wednesday, July 15.  Steam will be off from midnight until late Wednesday afternoon.  This is necessary to connect equipment in the central steam plant.  Wednesday was selected to minimize impact to SOAR activities.

    Natural gas and electric water heaters will continue to operate at Tech Village, New Hall North, Southwest Hall, RUC (for food service only), East Stadium, West Stadium, APC, Foundation Hall, Hooper Eblen and Fitness Center.

     

  • Volunteers Needed for PPE Distribution

    Volunteers Needed for PPE Distribution

    If you are interested in volunteering to help distribute PPE on campus to students and your department will approve you to help, please sign up here: https://signup.com/go/xnAjErL

    Masks, along with personal bottles of hand sanitizer, will be distributed on:
    • Thursday, Aug. 20
    • Friday, Aug. 21
    • Monday, Aug. 24 (first day of classes)

    The following distribution centers will be located across campus to provide easy access to students:
    • Memorial Gym
    • Roaden University Center Multipurpose Room
    • Volpe Library, Information Desk
    • Hooper Eblen Center Concourse
    • Bryan Fine Arts Lobby

    Queues at the distribution sites should incorporate proper social distancing (6 feet apart).
    Distributors will be expected to wear masks during their volunteer shift.
    Questions? Contact Michelle Huddleston (6120) or Dan Warren (3407)

  • Counseling Center Virtual Open House

    Join the TN Tech Counseling Center for a summer  virtual open house via Instagram Live on July 15, July 29, August 5, and August 19 @tntechcounsel. For more information, please contact the counseling center at 372-3331.

  • TCRI Receives $300,000 CARES Act Grant

    TCRI Receives $300,000 CARES Act Grant

    The Center for Rural Innovation (TCRI) has received a $300,000 CARES Act grant through the federal Economic Development Administration (EDA). The grant will establish the TCRI CARES project, which will respond to economic injury as a result of coronavirus in the rural Upper Cumberland region of Tennessee. The project will help 200 local businesses, create 20 student internships, broadcast 50 interactive community Zoom calls, and produce a monthly PBS television series. “This project will help our region’s entrepreneurs survive and thrive throughout the pandemic and beyond through a comprehensive approach to technical assistance, commercialization, applied research, and workforce development,” said Michael Aikens, the TCRI CARES director and PI.  Read the official EDA press release here https://eda.gov/news/press-releases/2020/07/10/cookeville-tn.htm

  • Access Health & Safety Signs for Your Area

    Campus signage designed for the health and safety prevention of COVID-19 is now available for download. You may download and print the standard signs for your area. Custom signage is also available. https://www.tntech.edu/return/signage.php

  • Tennessee Tech Today this week

    Tennessee Tech Today this week

    Here is this week’s Tennessee Tech Today radio show: https://www.tntech.edu/news/files/TNTech_Today_Show_7-10-20.mp3

    This week’s Tennessee Tech Today includes David Mullinax, director of campus recreation, discussing the opening of the Marc L. Burnett Fitness and Recreation Center and Golden Eagle head football coach Dewayne Alexander talking about how COVID-19 has impacted the Tech football team.

  • Virtual Engineering a Future Camp for Girls

    Virtual Engineering a Future Camp Activities are FREE this year!

    Engineering a Future (EAF) is a virtual Summer Camp for girls rising into the 8th or 9th grade in the state of Tennessee. The camp is designed for girls who are interested in becoming problem solvers and creative thinkers. Due to the Pandemic, EAF is being held virtually for the first time. It is a neat opportunity for young women to spend time exploring the ever-changing and exciting field of Engineering. TN Tech faculty, their students, and professional engineers will lead the activities. This year’s experiences will revolve around space exploration.

    Sessions include Cyber Puzzles, Missions to Mars and Surfing the Stars, and are offered July 10 through the 24th.

    All participants will be required to have access to an internet-ready device in order to join the activities.

    Time is of the essence since one of the activities begins July 10th!

    This camp is sponsored by NASA and the Society of Women Engineers.

    Sign up here!

  • July 14, 2020 Question and Answer Session for AVP of Facilities Candidates

    Faculty, staff, and students are invited to a question and answer session with the candidates for the AVP of Facilities position.

    The Zoom link to attend the July 14, 2020, session is below.

    Tuesday, July 14, 2020

    https://tntech.zoom.us/j/91291858873?pwd=ZGtUNFhRVUE5RGhrbUJidWt5cUI3dz09

    Meeting ID: 912 9185 8873

    Password: 574293

  • Great Move In Day 2020 Volunteering Canceled

    Great Move In Day 2020 Volunteering Canceled

    Greetings:

    It is with deepest regret that we must announce the cancellation of volunteers for Great Move-In Day 2020.

    We enjoyed an excellent response from our university faculty and student organizations in last year’s annual event.  We were prepared for a normal academic year and were excited about the enthusiastic responses from the Tech community, including a potential record breaking volunteer number.  However, given the severity of the coronavirus pandemic and out of concern for our students, their families, staff, and faculty, we made the difficult decision to limit the volume of individuals gathering during the move-in process. Our department worked hard to be proactive in addressing these challenges and in brainstorming collaborative solutions. But, with the coronavirus numbers on the rise again, we made the difficult but necessary decision to cancel the volunteer portion of Great Move-In Day.

    Again, we are appreciative of our faculty and Tennessee Tech student organizations for such an enthusiastic response to our request for volunteers. We remain hopeful that we will be able to overcome these challenges posed by COVID-19 and that Great Move-In Day will return next year in 2021. We are deeply sorry about not being able to execute our event and any unfulfilled expectations this may cause.  We hope to see you in the very near future.  If you have any questions, please email Residential Life at ResLife@tntech.edu.

    Thank you.

  • CAT Virtual Training Workshop

    The Center for Assessment & Improvement of Learning (CAIL) and the Center for Innovation in Teaching & Learning (CITL) are excited to offer a critical-thinking and real-world problem-solving workshop at Tennessee Tech University July 22nd & 23rd  to kick-off our Authentic Assessment Academic Learning Community (ALC). This 2 half-day virtual workshop is based around the Critical-thinking Assessment Test (CAT). The CAT was developed at TNTech with support from the National Science Foundation and is used across the country to support institutional assessment and academic research. During the first half-day workshop, we will introduce the CAT and take a look at the test and see how our TNTech students respond to critical-thinking questions. On the second half-day workshop, we will introduce critical-thinking frameworks used in the CAT, practice the development of interdisciplinary critical-thinking activities, and brainstorm/develop content specific critical-thinking activities (CAT Apps) for your courses.

    Click HERE to register!

  • 2020 SOAR & Orientation Parking

    The red zone parking lot across from Pennebaker Hall is reserved for orientation and SOAR guests this summer. We ask faculty, staff and students to use other parking zones on campus during orientation programming.

  • General Complaint Reporting – Summer 2020

    In addition to the Fraud, Waste, or Abuse reporting form, Tennessee Tech also has a form on Internal Audit’s website for confidentially reporting complaints about accounting, internal control, auditing matters, code of conduct, and other related issues that are NOT fraud, waste, or abuse.

    Complainants remain COMPLETELY ANONYMOUS to Internal Audit unless the last section of the form is completed with contact information.

    General complaints received on this form are routed to the appropriate campus departments for follow-up. The form can be submitted online or completed, printed, and mailed to Internal Audit, PO Box 5154, Cookeville, TN 38505.

      • The online form can be found at

    https://tf.tntech.edu/machform/view.php?id=322625

      • The printable form can be found at

    https://www.tntech.edu/internalaudit/pdf/generalcomplaints/gencomp.pdf

     

  • Reporting Fraud, Waste, and Abuse – Summer 2020

    Tennessee Tech endeavors to prevent fraud, waste, and abuse and to investigate allegations of such. If you have any knowledge of fraud, waste, or abuse, please report it to one of the following:

    Additional information, along with reporting options that allow the complainant to remain COMPLETELY ANONYMOUS, can be found at https://www.tntech.edu/internalaudit/fwa.php.

  • July 8, 2020 Question and Answer Session for AVP of Facilities Candidate

    Faculty, staff, and students are invited to a question and answer session with the candidates for the AVP of Facilities position.  

    The Zoom link to attend the July 8, 2020, session is below.

    Wednesday, July 8, 2020 

    https://tntech.zoom.us/j/92625897716?pwd=WTJ0dDZyREpjem9KeWRFWGdoYUpSdz09

    Meeting ID: 926 2589 7716

    Password: 974534

  • Tennessee Tech Today for this week

    Tennessee Tech Today for this week

    Here is this week’s Tennessee Tech Today radio show: https://www.tntech.edu/news/files/TNTech_Today_Show_7-2-20.mp3

    This week’s Tennessee Tech Today includes Tennessee Tech President Phil Oldham discussing the start of the second Summer session; Marc Burnett commenting on having the new fitness and recreation center named after him; and, Matt Manzaro talking about a busy couple of months at the Golden Eagle Golf Club.