Senate Member Changes Education

Senate Member Changes Education

Authors: Cora Power and Addie Stafford

Leaps and bounds have been made in the Red Senate over the past couple of days as Camryn Mitchell speaks upon the issues within Tennessee’s higher education system. As a junior in high school, a second year YIG attendee, and 2020 MUN Video Director, Mitchell’s next goal is to change and improve the public college admissions process in Tennessee through her bill, RSB 20-2-5.

With each application, students pay $13 for a single score report to be sent to college admissions:

“This cost is one of many that limits people from applying to any college they want to.”

Mitchell has used her wisdom to write a bill to require Tennessee public colleges to accept self-reported ACT & SAT scores, with private universities having the option to accept or decline. The bill also states that non-Tennessee Residents attending school from out-of-state will also have the opportunity to self-report. She claims that not only will this increase college applications, but now lower-income families will have the ability to encourage their young students to broaden their horizons and apply without fear of these limitations.

At the 2019 conference, Mitchell composed a “decently controversial bill” that was green lighted by the house and the Senate. However, her bill was to be timed out before getting passed by the governor. As she waits for the final signature at the 2020 Youth in Government Conference, Mitchell only wishes for everyone to hear what she has to say as she hopes to reach the finish line.

 

Camryn Mitchell states that “This is an easy limit to make and creates big change,” and a big change she is successfully making.

 

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