Congratulations Dr. Jesse Carrick (Chemistry), Dr. George Chitiyo (Curriculum and Instruction), Dr. Lauren Michel (Earth Sciences) and Dr. Susmit Shannigrahi (Computer Science), recipients of 2026-2027 Non-Instructional Faculty Assignments!<\/p>\n
NIFA are designed to contribute to the professional growth of faculty, improve teaching and curriculum across the University, and\/or enhance the scholarship and academic excellence of the University in ways that cannot be achieved within the constraints of regular workload assignments. More information https:\/\/www.tntech.edu\/handbooks\/faculty\/noninstructionalassignments.php<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Congratulations Dr. Jesse Carrick (Chemistry), Dr. George Chitiyo (Curriculum and Instruction), Dr. Lauren Michel (Earth Sciences) and Dr. Susmit Shannigrahi (Computer Science), recipients of 2026-2027 Non-Instructional Faculty Assignments! NIFA are designed to contribute to the professional growth of faculty, improve teaching and curriculum across the University, and\/or enhance the scholarship and academic excellence of the University […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":26172,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[23,24,22],"class_list":{"0":"post-26171","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-academics","8":"tag-facstaff","9":"tag-rs","10":"tag-student"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/blogs.tntech.edu\/techtimes\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2026\/02\/2026-02-17_699477823fb5c_NIFA2026-2027.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.tntech.edu\/techtimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26171","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.tntech.edu\/techtimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.tntech.edu\/techtimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.tntech.edu\/techtimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.tntech.edu\/techtimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26171"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.tntech.edu\/techtimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26171\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26202,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.tntech.edu\/techtimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26171\/revisions\/26202"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.tntech.edu\/techtimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26172"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.tntech.edu\/techtimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26171"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.tntech.edu\/techtimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26171"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.tntech.edu\/techtimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26171"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}