The college is the state’s first two-year college to establish a women’s flag football team and is among the first 10 two-year colleges in the country to do so.
The funding comes from a Tennessee Department of Labor Rural Health Workforce Initiative and will pay for the tuition of the first six students to register for the college’s allied health programs, with the exception of the Registered Dental Assistant program.
The two $30,000 gifts come from the City of Lenoir City and its utilities board, LCUB. The total estimated cost of the project is $75 million, with $7.5 million needing to come from private donors.
The partnership will give current VUMC employees the opportunity to participate in a 12-week training program to earn certification as Healthcare Sterile Processing Association (HSPA) Certified Registered Central Service Technicians.
The two new NCAA Division II athletic programs bring the university’s total of NCAA sports to 25, with 28 sports programs offered overall.
The university last had a men’s wrestling team in the 1989-1990 school year, and thanks to an initiative started by wrestling alumni, the program will return and will add women’s wrestling to the roster, as well.
During a meeting of the Oakland University Board of Trustees on June 27, the budget for the 2025-26 academic year was approved at a total of $318,060,735.
The fund will support the university’s Mifsud Center for Student Success.
The new program is an enhanced and restructured version of the previous Project EXCEL program, which will now offer tiered support services to support student success.
As of July 1, students who reside in an Indiana border county can receive in-state tuition discounts to attend Miami University’s Oxford campus in Ohio.
