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From YouTube: House - Higher Education Subcommittee - March 01, 2022
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House Higher Education Subcommittee Hearing Room 3
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C
If
the
veteran
or
the
military
fellow
military-affiliated
individual
excuse
me
is
enrolled
in
a
public
institution
of
higher
education
and
resides
outside
tennessee.
This
is
recognition
of
the
fact
that
those
in
military
service
lead
a
somewhat
nomadic
life
sometimes,
and
they
should
not
be
penalized
in
terms
of
their
education
if
orders
take
them
out
of
state
and
they
come
back
and
or
if
they
were
out
of
state
came
in
and
started
their
education
got
sent
out.
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A
D
A
Thank
you
any
other
questions,
members
seeing
none,
let's
go
ahead
and
take
a
vote.
All
those
in
favor
of
passing
house
20
house
bill
2710
on
to
full
education
committee.
Please
indicate
by
saying
aye
any
opposed,
and
you
guys
have
it.
Thank
you,
mr
chairman
committee.
Yes,
sir
next
up
item
number
two
house
bill
2115
by
chairman
eldridge.
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E
E
The
bill
will
also
enable
the
students
to
not
only
transfer
their
course
credits,
but
more
so,
to
take
advantage
of
consistent
advising
resources,
financial
aid
processes
and
enrollment
management
policies
across
both
the
community
college
and
university
from
day
one.
The
the
bill
authorizes
the
development
of
these
policies,
but
it
does
not
mandate
admission
policies
outside
of
the
agreements
which
will
be
coordinated
by
the
higher
education
commission
in
partnership
with
the
tennessee
board
of
regents,
and
with
that
explanation,
I'll
stand
for
any
questions.
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A
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H
Great,
thank
you
so
much.
Thank
you,
chairman
lafferty,
and
the
higher
education
subcommittee
for
allowing
me
to
speak
today.
My
name
is
ashlyn
anderson.
I
am
a
current
senior
at
the
university
of
tennessee
in
knoxville
and
I
currently
serve
as
the
president
of
the
student
basic
needs
coalition
or
sbnc
myself
and
other
members
here
are
here
today
to
advocate
on
house
bill
1669..
H
Over
the
past
four
years
I
have
become
aware
of
devoted
my
whole
undergraduate
career
to
addressing
food
insecurity
among
college
students.
When
I
started
doing
research
my
freshman
year,
I
became
aware
of
a
very
startling
and
surprising
statistic,
and
that
is
that
one
out
of
every
three
college
students,
or
about
32
percent
of
college
students
on
my
campus,
identify
as
food,
insecure,
meaning
they
lack
access
to
sufficient
quantity
of
safe,
affordable,
nutritious
foods
to
sustain
their
life.
Now
you
may
be
familiar
with
this.
H
Research
has
found
that
38
of
college
students
drop
out
because
of
financial
pressures
like
food
insecurity
seeking
to
go
beyond
the
data
and
numbers
of
this
issue.
I've
interviewed
college
students
as
a
part
of
my
research
and
I'll
share
with
you,
a
brief
quote
of
one
of
the
students
who
identifies
as
food
insecure.
H
Would
I
rather
be
hungry
or
homeless?
You
know
for
people
like
me,
I'm
a
young
adult.
I
have
a
family,
but
we
have
dreams,
and
I
have
to
make
these
really
tough
choices
that
usually
end
up
trickling
down
to
how
I
eat
it's
from
a
male
graduate
student
as
disheartening,
as
these
student
testimonies
may
be.
I'm
here
to
today
to
let
you
know
that,
there's
already
a
movement
about
around
food
insecurity
across
higher
education
institutions,
many
of
tennessee's
colleges
and
universities
are
already
addressing
food
insecurity
across
the
state.
H
This
includes
community
colleges,
technical
colleges
in
the
ut
system
as
well.
This
looks
like
implementing
food
pantries,
collecting
data
on
food
insecurity
and
connecting
students
to
resources
that
mitigate
the
financial
burden.
Now
the
efforts
are
not
systematically
reported
or
analyzed,
which
is
where
this
bill
comes
in.
This
bill
bridges
a
gap
in
that,
in
fact,
that
we
do
not
know
across
the
state
how
colleges
and
universities
are
responding
to
food
insecurity
and
what
they
are
doing
to
address
the
issue.
H
Having
a
report
like
this
to
examine
methods
on
how
college
hunger
can
be
addressed,
can
save
our
state
millions
of
dollars,
because
the
state
money
that
is
funded
and
invested
into
students
ultimately
will
pay
off
when
students
stay
in
school
instead
of
dropping
out.
Because
of
financial
burdens
like
food
and
security,
the
more
students
enrolled
students
who
ultimately
graduate
from
our
state's
institutions
will
provide
more
economic
growth
and
more
economically
viable
students.
I
Thank
you
very
much
for
and
and
go
vols
from
from
another
ut
alum.
So
just
in
your
research
and
just
a
as
you've
looked
at
this,
do
you
are
there
some
numbers
that
break
down?
Maybe
those
students
who
are
food
insecure,
just
their
economic
situation
in
general,
specifically
you
know,
are
they?
Are
they
working
and
going
to
class
at
the
same
time,
are
they
paying
for
their
education
entirely
on
their
own
scholarship,
in
the
mix
of
scholarships
and
them
paying
with
their
own
personal
offense?
H
Thank
you,
representative
cochran.
For
that
question.
That's
an
excellent
point,
so
food
insecurity
and
some
of
these
basic
needs
and
securities
specifically
does
affect
disproportionately
students
that
you
mentioned
it's
students
who
are
first
generation
students
who
are
parents,
it's
students
who
are
low-income
and
these
students
who
are
having
a
lot
of
financial
pressures
in
their
life
on
top
of
paying
for
college.
So
and
while
I
don't
have
the
specific
statistics
on
those
populations
in
front
of
me,
that
is
a
population
that's
disproportionately
affected
by
food
insecurity.
Great
thank.
G
F
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D
It
would
require
tennessee
state
university
to
annually
submit
a
report
to
the
governor,
and
I
think
we
have
an
amendment
coming
to
say
to
the
members
of
the
general
assembly
about
the
progress
of
improvements
to
tsu's
facilities
and
infrastructure
and
how
the
improvements
address
the
needs
identified
in
the
tennessee
higher
education.
Commission's
evaluation
of
infrastructure
needs
for
tsu.