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2019 Archives for Colleges and Universities

  • 2019 Revue: University of Tennessee
    New leaders, a campus merger, a Sex Week détente and other changes during a transitional year at the Knoxville flagship.
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  • Plowman’s Start
    The new chancellor of the University of Tennessee’s Knoxville campus has had a busy first semester. We sat down to talk about it.
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  • ‘I Don’t Give Up’
    Travis Bryan is graduating from the University of Tennessee today. But his biggest challenges have come outside the classroom.
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  • Literally Toxic
    A UT researcher’s work shows that difficult family relationships are a predictor of poor health.
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  • Power Poll: Confidence in Boyd
    Should UT make its interim president permanent? Our latest survey of local community leaders shows strong support.
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  • Controlling the Programs
    Sex Week’s organizers say the event will go forward even as a new campus system for student events aims to isolate it.
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  • Trustees Bullish on Boyd, TVA Deal
    A plan to move the UT system administration off the Knoxville campus gets the nod — and maybe a permanent president to go with it.
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  • Ivory Tower Toil
    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.
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  • Estate Sale
    The University of Tennessee proposes to sell the historic Eugenia Williams house and property to the nonprofit Aslan Foundation.
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  • Lab Work
    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.
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  • Assessing the Profs
    The UT Board of Trustees revisits an old question: how to measure faculty work and effectiveness. It turns out it’s not easy.
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  • It’s Here, It’s Beer, Get Used to It
    Not corn in a jar, but wheat in a can is coming to Rocky Top at this Saturday’s UT football game.
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  • Anticipating Catastrophe
    A UT researcher finds that many nurses say they are unprepared for long-term disasters, and nursing colleges aren’t emphasizing it.
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  • Taking the Reins
    Newly arrived UT Knoxville Chancellor Donde Plowman finds a warm welcome and a long to-do list.
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  • Tweet Trackers
    UT researchers find a strong correlation between Russian disinformation and movement in the 2016 presidential polls.
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  • Under Transition
    Merging campuses and creating a new Oak Ridge Institute, the UT Board of Trustees ratifies big moves by Interim President Randy Boyd.
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  • On the Comeback Trail
    17 months in, UT Athletic Director Phillip Fulmer says the Vols' sports programs are working their way back to the top.
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  • For the Records
    A UT professor’s open records lawsuit against the Knox County Sheriff’s Office raises questions about access to public officials’ emails.
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  • Backyard Archaeologists
    UT Knoxville students sift through evidence of ancient civilizations on the banks of the Tennessee River.
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  • Small Step
    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.
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  • This Old House
    After looking for a way to restore the historic Eugenia Williams mansion, the University of Tennessee decides its best option is to sell it.
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  • UT Picks Plowman
    The next chancellor of UT Knoxville has experience navigating public university complexities, here and elsewhere.
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  • Game of Chancellors
    Four candidates to lead the University of Tennessee’s flagship campus presented different styles in forums this week, but some shared themes.
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  • Final Four
    UT announces a quartet of candidates from different backgrounds for chancellor of the flagship Knoxville campus.
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  • An Imperfect Account
    Eleven years after the murders at the Tennessee Valley Unitarian Universalist Church, Knoxville writer Brian Griffin sorts through the trauma.
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  • Wildflower Witness
    A University of Tennessee scientist uses Henry David Thoreau’s 19th century observations to chart the effects of climate change.
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  • Big Ears’ Big Tent
    The festival's eclectic energy is carrying over to its home city, in many different ways. We trace some of them.
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  • Trust and Transparency
    A national report (with a Tennessee co-chair) charts a decline in civic engagement. It also offers some solutions.
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  • Vol Access
    Boyd announces UT Promise, a privately endowed scholarship to make the state university free for lower-income students.
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  • Appalachian Chorus
    In response to J.D. Vance’s ‘Hillbilly Elegy,’ regional writers stake a claim to political and cultural diversity in the Southern mountains.
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  • Taking Control
    The UT Board of Trustees approves a plan to change how student activity fees are distributed, potentially shutting down funding to Sex Week.
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  • Cherokee Farmer
    After a career building public-private connections, Tom Rogers prepares to take the reins at UT’s research park.
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  • After the Flood
    With extreme weather events on the rise, a UT professor looks at the social equity of disaster and disruption.
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  • SEAT Speaks
    Replying to a state report, the University of Tennessee students who organize Sex Week reply say they deserve more respect.
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  • Carnal Knowledge
    In response to a comptroller’s report, the University of Tennessee abolishes a committee that has directed money to the controversial Sex Week.
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  • Raise a Glass
    A proposed change in state law would allow alcohol sales at concerts and other non-athletic events in UT Knoxville’s arenas.
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  • Faith and the World
    In its 126th year, Johnson University seeks to maintain its evangelical mission while widening its scope and impact.
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  • The Opioid Effect
    A University of Tennessee study is the first to quantify the workforce impact of the prescription drug epidemic.
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  • The Equalizer
    Tyvi Small, UT Knoxville’s new vice chancellor for diversity and engagement wants to help students feel welcome, whoever they are.
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  • State of the Union
    10 years in the making, the University of Tennessee’s new Student Union building is big, bright and very orange.
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  • The Year Ahead: Active Academics
    Both Knox County Schools and the University of Tennessee will make major decisions about the future in 2019.
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