The use of adjunct professors soared at the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga in the five years ending in 2009, but since then officials have improved parity by hiring more full-time, tenured faculty.

A top U.S. State Department official, who spent two days in Tennessee discussing the state's refugee resettlement program, said he wants to give communities a "louder voice in the process."

At 69 percent, the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga has the lowest freshman retention rate among the University of Tennessee's three campuses.

The first signs that HOPE scholarship changes made last year are hurting some Georgia students and colleges are starting to crop up just as Tennessee considers imposing even tougher academic requirements of its own.

The nursing program at Cleveland State Community College faced such high demand, the school decided to offer an evening program — which also filled up.

Dalton State College is introducing its first intercollegiate athletics program director, a step that brings it closer to its goal of becoming a traditional four-year college.

ATLANTA — Human trafficking is the fastest-growing industry in the world and second most-profitable behind drugs, but one of the most difficult to prosecute, a former FBI agent said Tuesday.

In 2002, Chattanooga State Community College received nearly two-thirds of its financial support from the state, with student tuition and fees making up most of the remainder.

At about 10:30 p.m. Tuesday, Stephen Buchanan heard the news his entire family had been hoping for the last three months: His oldest sister had been rescued in Somalia.

With only a week left in its current building downtown, Mosaic pastor Tim Reid said the church is basically homeless. "We are totally lost; we don't know where we are going," he said.

Along with welcoming the new year, the Vietnamese holiday of Tet is when families and friends get together — something they may not get to do very often.

Neighbors of a man who barricaded himself in his home early Sunday said it was not the first time he had done something like this.

After a tornado hits or an earthquake rattles a community, emergency relief organizations are quick to respond. Recovery efforts, however, can take much longer, and that's where volunteers come into play.

It wasn't easy when Tina Hullender's 18-year-old daughter went to college, even if she was only going from Signal Mountain to the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga.

New mandates to verify the employment eligibility of new hires in the tri-state area is being received with mixed feelings from the business community.

Dalton State officials and area lawmakers remain hopeful they will be able to find funding this year for an academic building that has been in the works since 2005.

Jose Mendez was checking the water and oil of his Honda Accord outside his house on Nov. 30 when he was approached by a man asking for $2.

Simone Plimpton rode in a white van with her father, sister, a couple of friends and the man in charge of the School of Hope on a 40-minute drive along a bumpy dirt road to Nakaseke, a town in central Uganda.

Ice on the road inside the tunnel is believed to have led to the accident, according to police dispatcher Dee Brown.

A man sought by police turned himself in Monday, hours after his childhood friend was found dead of multiple stab wounds at a Cleveland, Tenn., Days Inn.

Russell Brown has been charged with first-degree murder in addition to aggravated arson in connection with the New Year’s Day hotel fire and suspected homicide at a Days Inn, according to the Cleveland Police Department.

Sitting on top of Lookout Mountain, Covenant College sometimes is lost in the clouds. Now the private Dade County, Ga., school's Kresge Memorial Library will be in the clouds on a daily basis.

Students at Cleveland State Community College now can transfer more easily to Tennessee Tech University under a new dual admissions agreement.

Students at UTC may see a fee increase to help pay for new buildings under a capital projects plan that includes a life sciences building.

RINGGOLD, Ga. -- Collection of property and sales taxes is down in Catoosa County despite the opening of Costco last year.

The Tennessee Higher Education Commission passed the 2012-13 capital projects recommendations Tuesday, a list that requires close to $290 million in state funds.

The Tennessee Higher Education Commission passed the 2012-2013 capital projects recommendations today, a list that requires close to $290 million in state funds.

The topic of immigration is not going away anytime soon, but when Georgia lawmakers go back into session in January it is not expected to be a top priority, area lawmakers said.

Wearing a blue leotard and her pink pointe shoes, Alondra Gomez bends her knees, straightens a leg and rests it against the barre in the dance studio inside the John A. Patten Recreation Center in Lookout Valley.

Wearing a red dress and green mantle covered with stars, Judith Anguiano Palmerin stood in the parking lot outside Kmart, twiddled her fingers and sometimes bit her nails. But she never stopped smiling.

Human trafficking is not an unfamiliar problem in the nation or in North Georgia and Southeast Tennessee, authorities say.

Raj Kashyap came to the United States in 1999. He's lived 10 of the years since in Chattanooga, bought a custom-made home and had a baby.

UTC's police department is investigating the school's sixth sex offense on campus since 2008.

As Ovidio and Domitina Mendez drove back from their children's medical appointment, they noticed police cars parked outside their house.

Dalton State College wouldn't be very high on the list of possible mergers among the University of Georgia's institutions because of its location, but there are still a lot of unknowns, officials said.

The search for an executive director for the newly formed UT-Erlanger Medical Group is under way.

Kareem Bushnag signed up too late for UTC on-campus housing, so he was placed in a hotel room at the Chattanooga Choo Choo.

It was 9:41 p.m. Thursday. Ibrahim Ousman buttoned his blue suit jacket and stood in front of the security checkpoint at Chattanooga Metropolitan Airport.

Thanksgiving might not be a worldwide festivity, but on Thursday it was a holiday that united hundreds of people to celebrate the area’s diversity.

Sewanee: The University of the South announced Wednesday it's going to freeze current tuition rates and fees for the upcoming year, nine months after a 10 percent tuition cut.

Questions should be asked about the science behind the falling of the World Trade Center buildings 10 years ago, panelists agreed Tuesday night.

Building a life sciences laboratory facility at UTC finally has made it to the top tier of projects prioritized by the UT system for funding in the next fiscal year.

A group of health care and nonprofit representatives tried to connect the dots with four lines without lifting their pencils and to match proverbs from different countries — all with the goal of thinking outside the box.

UTC is putting together a committee to review preliminary results of a systemwide compensation study that found a gap between what the university pays faculty and staff and the pay at similar institutions, school officials said.

Deportations in the South have increased by more than 300 percent -- and even 500 percent in some areas -- since fiscal year 2005, a pace much faster than the national average.

The UC Foundation in Chattanooga is for the first time ever affiliated with the UT system foundation, an agreement that the board of trustees called a step in the right direction.

A tour of Crabtree Farms turned into an exchange of farming practices between Paraguay native Maria Avalos Nuñez and her guide.

As part of its goal to become a top five public, master's university in the South, UTC will create an honors college with the goal of serving 10 percent of undergraduate students in a decade -- making it the first in the UT system.

The new UTC library annex will be named after the late Lawrence G. Derthick Sr., a onetime Chattanooga resident and former U.S. Commissioner of Education.

In the last couple of years, students at the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga benefited from more part-time faculty, scholarships and even a new math lab, all thanks to federal stimulus money.