Two of the four colleges from across the U.S. earning the prestigious Leader College status from the Achieving the Dream Network for steady improvement in student success outcomes, are Tennessee community colleges. Chattanooga State Community College and Southwest Tennessee Community College were awarded the honor at Achieving the Dream’s national conference Thursday at National ... (click for more)

Chattanooga State Community College is one of ten community colleges from across the country to earn National Leader College status, and one of four to earn that honor for the first time. This honor comes to Chattanooga State as a member college of the Achieving the Dream Network, a growing network of 277 community colleges committed to helping their students, particularly low-income ... (click for more)

Thirteen Congressional Medal of Honor recipients, including Chattanooga's Charles H. Coolidge, helped open the new Charles H. Coolidge National Medal of Honor Heritage Center on Saturday morning at 2 West Aquarium Way. Mr. Coolidge, who is approaching 99, made a surprise appearance and received a thunderous applause from the crowd of about 1,500. Medal of Honor recipients ... (click for more)

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To Memorial Hospital doctors, nurses, staff and executive leadership, I want to offer and to express my sincere and profound gratitude for the extraordinary care and caring that you recently provided to one of my dearest and most beloved relatives. Last week, my loved one, who was suffering from flu symptoms, suddenly became seriously and critically ill with pneumonia in both ... (click for more)

It wasn’t until nightfall yesterday that I was able to rationalize that maybe it was good I couldn’t be in the crowd for Saturday’s ribbon-cutting of our National Medal of Honor Heritage Center. Who wants to see some guy in a wheelchair, blubbering with emotion and sloppy in my repose, over the presence of 13 Medal of Honor winners in the greatest display of patriotism our city ... (click for more)