Land-grant universities have a unique advantage when it comes to rebuilding Americans’ faith in higher education, UT Chancellor Donde Plowman told an audience at The Ohio State University in April.
At ASU and UT, we share a mission to expand education access and create opportunities for the people we serve.
Great people make great universities—people who think creatively and act boldly, who work across industries and disciplines to find solutions, who listen to the needs of their community and respond with courage and compassion.
We have been investing in our Digital Learning Unit over the past year to build capacity and support the work of our departments and faculty who are creating high-quality online programs.
The Institute of American Civics, housed in the Howard H. Baker Jr. School of Public Policy and Public Affairs, is launching its flagship lecture series on civic leadership, an opportunity to facilitate respectful conversations about polarizing ideas in our society.
As we think about what it means to be not just a good university but a great one, we must consider the investments it will take in our physical campus and our people.
UT is nurturing an ecosystem of entrepreneurship by establishing a supportive infrastructure where thinkers and movers will continue to ask important questions.
That’s why it is my privilege to celebrate the leadership and service of Robert J. Booker, a Knoxville native and Tennessee’s first Black state representative, with an honorary doctorate in humanities from the College of Arts and Sciences.
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The Volunteer Chapter of the Public Relations Society of America named Chancellor Donde Plowman Communicator of the Year for the Knoxville area.
