This research provides an overview of the Tennessee Education Lottery Scholarship program. This research reviews the development of the program and provides a description of House bill 787. The research also provides baseline data on higher education in Tennessee. Information related to enrollments, graduates, student-faculty ratios, and tuition-fee rates is provided. This data provides a baseline from which future studies on the impacts of the Tennessee program can be based. The Tennessee experiment provides a unique opportunity for researchers to evaluate the impact of public policy on educational outcomes. (Contains 3 tables and 4 appendices containing tabular data.)