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Tennessee’s community and technical colleges honored veterans – including students, faculty, staff and alumni – in Veterans Day activities on campuses statewide on Monday.

As part of those ceremonies, a veteran at each college was also awarded the Chancellor’s Commendation for Military Veterans, a special recognition launched in 2020 by Tennessee Board of Regents Chancellor Flora W. Tydings.

While today’s ceremonies recognized and honored ALL veterans, the Chancellor’s Commendation is conferred based on nominations by each college’s president. Nominees may be a student, member of the faculty and staff, an alumnus of the college or a member of the community who are veterans or active-service members and exemplify characteristics of service, honor, courage, commitment, and integrity.

There are 40 Chancellor’s Commendation honorees for 2024 – one at each of the system’s 13 community colleges and 24 Tennessee Colleges of Applied Technology and the Tennessee Board of Regents system office. This year, Pellissippi State Community College awarded three Chancellor’s Commendations in celebration of the college’s 50th anniversary.

Among those honored locally were:

– Chad Bailey, Chief Financial Officer, Marines, Northeast State

– Steve Sweet, Site Coordinator, Marines, TCAT Elizabethton