Cumberland Furnace
Cumberland Furnace, TN · Education
NewsChannel 5 WTVF
Old Tenn. school becomes home and community gathering place
knoxtntoday.com
WBIR
Millions of federal dollars will fund workforce programs at 13 community colleges in TN
The Newport Plain Talk
Ground broken for new College of Medicine Interdisciplinary Building at UT Health Sciences
Somewhere in Tennessee, a family will one day sit across from a healthcare professional they have never met. They may be facing a di:icult diagnosis, welcoming a new baby, recovering from an injury or searching for answers about their health. They may never know where the doctor, nurse, therapist or other healthcare professional caring for them received their education. But there is a good chance that person was Made in Tennessee, through the education and training provided by the University of Tennessee Health Sciences. Preparing the next generation of healthcare professionals takes more than dedicated faculty and talented students. It also takes a commitment to providing the spaces, technology and hands-on experiences that prepare them for the challenges they will face. That commitment is taking shape through Tennessee’s investment in the new College of Medicine Interdisciplinary Building (COMIB) at UT Health Sciences, which will help prepare future healthcare professionals to serve communities across the state. At the recent groundbreaking, Ophelia Pilkinton, president of the College of Medicine Class of 2027, put it this way: “Somewhere, right now, there are patients we have never met, patients who do not know our names and don’t know what their futures hold,” she said.
USA TODAY
Tennessee high school football program facing consequences for recruiting violation
A major recruiting violation has led to a Tennessee high school football program being placed on restrictive probation and being barred from postseason play this season. Wynton Jackson of the Knox News Sentinel, part of the USA TODAY Network, reported on Wednesday, Oct. 21, that Karns High School football coach Lee Warren had been accused of trying to recruit a player that was not already at Karns. This led to an investigation by the Tennessee Sports Secondary Athletic Association. The resulting investigation concluded that the accusation was confirmed and reached Level 3 of the TSSAA's recruiting rule violations. Level 3 is considered "targeted recruiting.” That includes "direct, private, or third-party contact initiated by a person directly or indirectly associated with a school to a specific student-athlete enrolled at another school to solicit or encourage that student-athlete's enrollment," per the TSSAA Bylaws. "We learned of the situation when a voicemail was shared with our staff, which appeared to indicate that a Karns High School staff member was asked by the head football coach to contact the mother of a student who was not enrolled at Karns and encourage him to attend Karns High School and participate in football," a letter from