
: Rick Osborn's Continuing Education Blog A discussion of continuing higher education , adult education , training,and related--and some unrelated--Tennessee . topics Monday , November 19, 2012 Checking up on the Chancellor's description Of Tennessee's higher education funding flip-flop . Yes , it happened . When I started in Tennessee , we were a cheap tuition state where students paid 30 of the cost of tuition . Now we're a relatively high tuition state with students paying 67 of the cost . PolitiFact Tennessee confirms that history . below Official says students , not state , paying most of college cost But when John Morgan , chancellor of the Tennessee Board of Regents , told a U.S . Senate committee that Tennessee students now pay 67 percent of the costs of their educations at the