2019 Archives for Colleges and Universities

New leaders, a campus merger, a Sex Week détente and other changes during a transitional year at the Knoxville flagship.

The new chancellor of the University of Tennessee’s Knoxville campus has had a busy first semester. We sat down to talk about it.

Travis Bryan is graduating from the University of Tennessee today. But his biggest challenges have come outside the classroom.

A UT researcher’s work shows that difficult family relationships are a predictor of poor health.

Should UT make its interim president permanent? Our latest survey of local community leaders shows strong support.

Sex Week’s organizers say the event will go forward even as a new campus system for student events aims to isolate it.

A plan to move the UT system administration off the Knoxville campus gets the nod — and maybe a permanent president to go with it.

UT's full-time lecturers teach twice as many classes as tenured faculty, for less money and little job security. They are trying to change that.

The University of Tennessee proposes to sell the historic Eugenia Williams house and property to the nonprofit Aslan Foundation.

University of Tennessee research spending rose to $435.2 million statewide last year, but the flagship Knoxville campus remains far from its top 25 goal.

The UT Board of Trustees revisits an old question: how to measure faculty work and effectiveness. It turns out it’s not easy.

Not corn in a jar, but wheat in a can is coming to Rocky Top at this Saturday’s UT football game.

A UT researcher finds that many nurses say they are unprepared for long-term disasters, and nursing colleges aren’t emphasizing it.

Newly arrived UT Knoxville Chancellor Donde Plowman finds a warm welcome and a long to-do list.

UT researchers find a strong correlation between Russian disinformation and movement in the 2016 presidential polls.

Merging campuses and creating a new Oak Ridge Institute, the UT Board of Trustees ratifies big moves by Interim President Randy Boyd.

17 months in, UT Athletic Director Phillip Fulmer says the Vols' sports programs are working their way back to the top.

A UT professor’s open records lawsuit against the Knox County Sheriff’s Office raises questions about access to public officials’ emails.

UT Knoxville students sift through evidence of ancient civilizations on the banks of the Tennessee River.

UT’s proposed budget keeps tuition increases low. But a decade of hikes has still left it one of the priciest state schools in the Southeast.

After looking for a way to restore the historic Eugenia Williams mansion, the University of Tennessee decides its best option is to sell it.

The next chancellor of UT Knoxville has experience navigating public university complexities, here and elsewhere.

Four candidates to lead the University of Tennessee’s flagship campus presented different styles in forums this week, but some shared themes.

UT announces a quartet of candidates from different backgrounds for chancellor of the flagship Knoxville campus.

Eleven years after the murders at the Tennessee Valley Unitarian Universalist Church, Knoxville writer Brian Griffin sorts through the trauma.

A University of Tennessee scientist uses Henry David Thoreau’s 19th century observations to chart the effects of climate change.

The festival's eclectic energy is carrying over to its home city, in many different ways. We trace some of them.

A national report (with a Tennessee co-chair) charts a decline in civic engagement. It also offers some solutions.

Boyd announces UT Promise, a privately endowed scholarship to make the state university free for lower-income students.

In response to J.D. Vance’s ‘Hillbilly Elegy,’ regional writers stake a claim to political and cultural diversity in the Southern mountains.

The UT Board of Trustees approves a plan to change how student activity fees are distributed, potentially shutting down funding to Sex Week.

After a career building public-private connections, Tom Rogers prepares to take the reins at UT’s research park.

With extreme weather events on the rise, a UT professor looks at the social equity of disaster and disruption.

Replying to a state report, the University of Tennessee students who organize Sex Week reply say they deserve more respect.

In response to a comptroller’s report, the University of Tennessee abolishes a committee that has directed money to the controversial Sex Week.

A proposed change in state law would allow alcohol sales at concerts and other non-athletic events in UT Knoxville’s arenas.

In its 126th year, Johnson University seeks to maintain its evangelical mission while widening its scope and impact.

A University of Tennessee study is the first to quantify the workforce impact of the prescription drug epidemic.

Tyvi Small, UT Knoxville’s new vice chancellor for diversity and engagement wants to help students feel welcome, whoever they are.

10 years in the making, the University of Tennessee’s new Student Union building is big, bright and very orange.

Both Knox County Schools and the University of Tennessee will make major decisions about the future in 2019.