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Thought Leadership

Why We are Doubling Down on Our Investment in Student Success 

June 10, 2025

Over the past six years our retention, persistence, and graduation rates have reached record levels. Students from across the country want to learn here because they know they will be part of a community that cares deeply about their success and provides the tools they need to thrive.

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Celebrating Dr. Amber Williams and a Big Win for Our Students 

May 13, 2025

Six years ago, when I returned to UT as chancellor one of our top priorities was to improve our student retention and I knew just the person to get us there: Dr. Amber Williams.

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Celebrating Five Years of the VW Innovation Hub 

May 2, 2025

We are proud to host Volkswagen’s first university-based innovation hub outside of their own property—a distinction that reflects the depth of trust and shared ambition between our institutions. What started as a bold idea has become a shining example of what’s possible when public institutions and private industry unite around a shared vision.  

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Digital Learning Expansion Serves Land Grant Mission 

April 29, 2025

There are nearly one million Tennesseans with some college credit but no degree. We want to change that.  

By leveraging Arizona State’s expertise and success in building digital learning infrastructure, we’re able to quickly scale up our academic programs and provide more options for more students.

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How UT is Helping Make East Tennessee a Top Destination for Nuclear Energy

December 18, 2024

UT Knoxville has one of the best nuclear engineering programs in the country and some of the world’s top experts in the field. This confluence of partnership and resources is why no region is better positioned to be a national leader in nuclear innovation than East Tennessee—and why no institution is better prepared to help lead us there than UT.

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Spring Update: Pursuing Big Ideas and Creating Big Impact

March 27, 2024

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.

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Building Community So Students Thrive 

November 14, 2023

The Division of Student Life focuses on cultivating a sense of belonging for every Vol. 

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UT’s Research is on the Rise

October 18, 2023

Industry leaders and government agencies are turning to UT for our expertise and capability to tackle complicated problems with real-world implications. From advanced materials and manufacturing to artificial intelligence, quantum materials to precision agriculture, the work happening across our research enterprise is making life and lives better in Tennessee and beyond. 

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Building on Tennessee’s Agricultural Heritage

October 5, 2023

Agriculture is, and always has been, a vital industry for our state—it is both our heritage and our future.

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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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