The Marilyn P. Ledbetter Scholarship Endowment will support upper-division nursing students.

The training program will prepare adults to work in STEM careers. The paid program will provide participants with $20 an hour who will be able to sit for the Biotechnology Aptitude and Competency Exam.

The MOU will allow the university to offer Certified Academic Language Practitioner (CALP) certification for bachelor of arts in education graduates, making it the first undergraduate school in the country to do so.

The Foundation’s support will establish the new Joanne and William Conway Nursing Scholarship program and the Joanne Barkett Conway Dean's Emergency Fund which will provide scholarships and emergency funding to students in the Gordon E. Inman College of Nursing.

Alumna Tracy Barbour and her husband Ronald Barbour have established the Rev. Clifford and Mrs. Ollie Mae Griffith Memorial Endowment to benefit honors program students.

The $2 million grant from the Tennessee Higher Education Commission will support the college’s Rural RNs Rise (R3): Growing Caregivers initiative.

The college is partnering with both McMinn County Justice Center and Monroe County Justice Center, both of which received grants to support inmate education through Cleveland State Community College.

Students who paused their education at Baker College because of institutionalized debt now have the opportunity to return and finish their education while also receiving debt forgiveness thanks to the college’s new Return to the Hive program.

The new campus will open with the Fall 2026 semester. Applications for the first cohort of medical students at the new campus opened in May 2025.

The two new buildings are scheduled to be completed in the fall of 2026 and will house facilities for the university’s Food and Animal Sciences and Environmental Sciences programs.