Posted 4/1/24

The Tennessee Board of Regents honored the outstanding students, faculty, staff, philanthropists, volunteers and partners of the year of its community and technical colleges in the Sixth Annual Statewide Outstanding Achievement Recognition celebration Thursday night, March 28th, in Nashville.

In addition to individual SOAR award winners, Northeast State Community College was named Community College of the Year and Tennessee College of Applied Technology Northwest took home the Technical College of the Year award.

TBR Chancellor Flora W. Tydings presented the trophies to Northeast President Jeff McCord and TCAT Northwest President Youlanda Jones, who accepted on behalf of their entire campus communities.

Community College Faculty Member of the Year was Gregory S. Johnson, emergency medical services program director and professor at Columbia State Community College.