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Building Trust as the Modern Land Grant 

September 30, 2024

As a land-grant, we have a covenant with Tennesseans— a trust they have placed in us —that we are here for them.

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Governor Bill Haslam and Chancellor Donde Plowman talk to students in their class, Leading with Courage, inside the Haslam College of Business Building.

Leading With Courage in Times of Political Tension 

September 13, 2024

In a time of growing political divide, Chancellor Donde Plowman and former Governor Bill Haslam penned an op-ed in the Knoxville News Sentinel on how to lead with courage during times of potential uncertainty. 

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Head Coach Tony Vitello and the Tennessee Volunteers pose with the 2024 NCAA Baseball National Championship sign during a celebration at Market Square in Knoxville, TN.

UT Baseball’s Culture of Excellence Emblematic of the Volunteer Spirit 

June 27, 2024

Following the University of Tennessee, Knoxville’s first baseball national championship, Chancellor Donde Plowman shared her thoughts on the school’s athletic excellence in an op-ed that ran in a special section of the Knoxville News Sentinel.  

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Chancellor Donde Plowman speaks while sharing the stage with Vanderbilt University Chancellor Daniel Diermeier and President and CEO of the Council on Competitiveness Deborah Wince-Smith.

Leveraging Our Strengths to Help Make Tennessee an Economic Powerhouse 

May 24, 2024

As the state’s flagship R1 land-grant university, UT is focused on meeting the needs of our state. That means contributing to and creating knowledge, developing a skilled workforce, and pursuing ambitious projects.

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Land-Grants Should Lead in Rebuilding Trust 

April 26, 2024

Chancellor Donde Plowman, in a recent op-ed in the Knoxville News Sentinel, asserted that land-grant universities like UT Knoxville are best positioned to respond to declining trust in higher education. 

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UT Celebrates Athletic, Academic Successes as an ‘Everything School’

June 16, 2023

Chancellor Donde Plowman celebrates the ways the University of Tennessee, Knoxville is an “Everything School” in a June 16 guest editorial in the Knoxville News Sentinel.   With recent post-season successes for softball and baseball, UT became the first school since 1998 to participate in a New Year’s Six or BCS bowl, the men’s and […]

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UT ready to help lead state’s innovation economy

February 3, 2023

Tennessee is poised to be the next great American innovation hub, Chancellor Donde Plowman posits in an editorial that ran in the Nashville Tennessean and the Knoxville News Sentinel.

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UT, Clemson share land-grant mission

January 10, 2023

Chancellor Donde Plowman of the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, and Clemson University President Jim Clements celebrated their universities’ shared mission as land-grant institutions in a guest editorial that ran in the Miami Herald the day before the schools competed in the Orange Bowl in South Florida. The editorial notes that while the leaders may disagree […]

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KNOXVILLE, TN - MAY 17, 2019 - Head Coach Tony Vitello and the Tennessee Volunteers after the game between the Ole Miss Rebels and the Tennessee Volunteers at Lindsey Nelson Stadium in Knoxville, TN. Photo By Caleb Jones/Tennessee Athletics

Vols Baseball embodies our culture of excellence

June 3, 2022

This culture of excellence and pride in our achievement belongs to the entire university.

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