Legislative Plan May Give Tennessee State Independent Board of Trustees

Gov. Bill Haslam on Tuesday announced plans to overhaul the state’s public higher education system by creating independent governing boards for the six universities currently managed by the Tennessee Board of Regents.

Why More Black Engineers Aren’t Being Hired In Silicon Valley

When Joshua Mann set foot in SpaceX on the first day of his internship three summers ago, the scene was not entirely unexpected. “I’ll be honest. When I got to SpaceX there weren’t a lot of black engineers there,” he said. “There was a feeling, did I really belong here?”