Here is today's news on mymix1041.com, sponsored by Toyota of Cleveland: From the Cleveland Daily Banner… Christy Armstrong reports: Cleveland State
Here is today’s news on mymix1041.com, sponsored by Toyota of Cleveland:
From the Cleveland Daily Banner…
Christy Armstrong reports: Cleveland State Community College is among the top three finalists in the running to receive the College System of Tennessee’s very first SOAR Award for College of the Year.
The College System of Tennessee, governed by the Tennessee Board of Regents, will honor outstanding students, faculty and campus staff — and the College of the Year — during its first Statewide Outstanding Achievement Recognition celebration this week in Nashville.
The other two College of the Year finalists are Pellissippi State Community College and the Tennessee College of Applied Technology at Elizabethton.
The award finalists were selected following “a review of institutional data on three key metrics: performance improvement, overcoming obstacles and program expansion.”
Cleveland State had the largest enrollment growth for the Fall 2018 semester — 8.6 percent — as well as the largest for the Spring 2019 semester — 12 percent. In 2018, the college also increased its summer school enrollment by 36 percent.
The college has also “doubled” its graduation rate over the past six years and had more than 1,000 graduates in 2018 alone, among other growth measures.
Also from The Banner…
Tim Siniard reports: A lawsuit against Bradley County Clerk Donna Simpson, who has been the target of litigation after she issued marriage licenses to same-sex couples, has been dismissed by a circuit court judge, resulting in the plaintiffs mulling whether to pursue further legal action.
Simpson was the subject of a lawsuit filed by the Rev. Guinn E. Green, pastor of the Kinser Church of God, and Bradley County Commissioner Howard Thompson. Green and Thompson were represented in the lawsuit by David Fowler, an attorney and president of the Family Action Council of Tennessee.
The lawsuit – Guinn E. Greene and Howard Thompson v. Donna Simpson – was filed in Bradley County Court in 2016.
In the Thursday ruling, 9th Judicial District Circuit Court Judge Michael Pemberton wrote the court had previously denied the defendants’ motion to dismiss the case, pending a decision in a similar case in the Tennessee Court of Appeals, Grant et. al. v. Elaine Anderson, which was decided in May 2018.
The Grant case was dismissed by the Tennessee Court of Appeals last year.
From the Banner…
Autumn Hughes reports: In the six months since Bradley County Sheriff Steve Lawson pointed out several areas of concern at the Bradley County Jail, some of them have been corrected, while others remain.
Lawson led the Bradley County Commission’s Law Enforcement Committee on a tour of the jail in September, showing commissioners multiple problems including issues with sewer service and a kitchen operating with only half the equipment in working order.
On a recent follow-up tour, Lawson said some of those issues have been corrected but others have not.
Lawson said the jail’s sewer system “muncher” has been replaced, which in turn made it possible to reopen the commissary for inmates to purchase hygiene items and additional food. The sewer system would become clogged on a regular basis because inmates would flush packaging from commissary items, among other non-biodegradable items, down the toilets.
