The five-year appointment comes in the midst of the university contending with the academic and economic effects of the coronavirus pandemic.
UT Learns to Zoom
On the first day of online classes, faculty and students adjust to a new kind of classroom. Pajamas allowed.
Pandemic Preparations
With Knox County’s COVID-19 count still at one, Knoxville declares an emergency, Knox County Schools close through April 3 and UT moves the rest of its semester online.
COVID-19 Cancellations Accelerate
As the Big Ears Festival pulls the plug and UT moves classes online, researchers explain what they know about the rapidly spreading coronavirus — and what they don’t.
COVID-19 Spreads to East Tennessee
With no cases confirmed in Knox County, UT suspends travel and prepares for online instruction, while the Health Department monitors the situation.
Boyd Makes His Case
In a town hall meeting on the Knoxville campus, UT’s interim president addresses diversity, affordability and guns.
On-the-Job Training
A partnership between Knox County Schools and the University of Tennessee will pay aspiring special education teachers as they finish their degrees.
Salary Study
How does the University of Tennessee’s pay for non-tenured faculty stack up? That depends on how you look at it.
Back to the Drawing Board
UT will revisit its campus programming funding — again — after student groups say a new system has shut them out.
UT Trustees Move Toward Naming Boyd President
Pending campus feedback, the Knoxville businessman will likely lose the ‘interim’ from his title for a five-year appointment.