We Heard It Through The Grapevine That...

                  * Sidney McPhee has been chosen as a participant in the TBR 2017 Maxine Smith Fellows Program.

                  * The Motlow Smyrna Library is going to be open for extended hours during pre-finals week and finals week.

                  * TN Reconnect will begin next Fall semester. Jeremy Mills and Allison Barton have been holding event nights to field questions and provide information to potential students, including posting Facebook videos of the sessions (presumably for anyone who could not make it in person).

                  * Students must complete eight TN Promise/FYE community service hours before the Dec. 1 deadline.

                  * Student Affairs has provided generous funding for the purchase of "hot beverage" supplies for all four campus libraries.

                  * Dec. 1 is the deadline for faculty members to submit an application to become a Tennessee Promise student mentor. Rutherford County only has 62 percent of the mentors it needs to serve the next incoming class of Tennessee Promise students. 

                  * Construction on the new (third) building is expected to begin next March.

(Stacy Dowd and Paige Hendrickson contributed to this column.)