49-8-108 - Attaining university status.
49-8-108. Attaining university status.
(a) (1) The state university and community college system is authorized and empowered to promulgate reasonable and objective rules, regulations and standards for the purpose of determining when degree-granting institutions of higher learning under its jurisdiction have attained the status of a university.
(2) The rules, regulations and standards shall take into consideration such factors as variety and depth of instructional programs and the various resources of the institution.
(b) Whenever a degree-granting institution of higher learning under the jurisdiction of the state university and community college system has achieved the status of a university in accordance with the rules, regulations and standards authorized in subsection (a), the system may designate the degree-granting institution of higher learning a university.
(c) Neither this section nor the authorizations conveyed in this section shall have any effect on institutions of higher learning that have already been designated as universities by action of the general assembly.
[Acts 1965, ch. 297, §§ 1-3; 1973, ch. 144, § 1; T.C.A., §§ 49-3229 49-3231.]