The Freshman Council is one of four coequal legislative bodies of the Student Government Association. It represents the needs and interests of first-time students at the university. A screening committee chosen by the student body vice president selects 40 members for the council each year.
Cornell Street was renamed Fraternity Park Drive in 1966, as part of the street renaming undertaken following completion of the Yale Avenue Urban Renewal Project. Knoxville’s City Council closed the street and turned ownership of it over to UT on January 7, 2014.
In spring 1975 the Undergraduate Council recommended, and the Faculty Senate approved, a unique grading system for freshman English composition courses: A, B, C, D, and No Credit (NC) with “no credit” not counting in the grade point average. The grading system went into effect in fall 1975.
See Interfraternity Council
See Torch Night.
Work on the Fred D. Brown Jr. Residence Hall, the first building on campus to be named for an African American, began in May 2012, with completion set to allow move-in for fall semester 2014. When built, the 250,000-square-foot facility contained beds for 682 residents in two kinds of suite-style rooms and two dining options—Subway … Continued
For The Kids @ UTK began as the UT Dance Marathon, first held in February 1996. UT’s program was modeled after a similar event that began in 1973 at Penn State University. Completely run by students, its first effort involved about 50 students and raised $5,000 for the Hematology and Oncology Clinic at East Tennessee … Continued
Former US President Gerald Rudolph Ford Jr. (president, 1974–77), delivered the MBA Symposium Lecture on October 16, 1985, in which he discussed the national business climate. The lecture was held in the Clarence Brown Theatre. He additionally visited an MBA class during his Oct. 15–16 visit.
See Neyland Stadium.
In fall 1963 a 10-year Ford Foundation grant, totaling $750,000, provided funding to allow 20 Oak Ridge National Laboratory scientists to spend 20 percent of their time as full-fledged, albeit part-time, faculty at UT. The arrangement also allowed UT graduate students in physics, chemistry, chemical and metallurgical engineering, and mathematics to do research at ORNL … Continued