Also known as the Buckley Amendment, FERPA provides four basic rights to students: the right to review their educational records, the right to seek to amend their education records, the right to limit disclosure of personally identifiable information, and the right to notify the federal Department of Education concerning an academic institution’s failure to comply … Continued

At the June 1973 meeting, the board of trustees authorized President Boling to appoint faculty as ex officio nonvoting members of nine board committees: student affairs, athletics, urban and public service, development, alumni and public relations, agriculture, medical affairs, and academic affairs. The Academic Affairs Committee was to include the heads of the faculty senate … Continued

Family Weekend was first held in April 1998 to give parents an opportunity to experience the campus during the semester and to give students an opportunity to show off the campus.

In 1933 the winding down and then disbanding of the student dramatic club (Tennessee Players) spawned a new troupe: the Faculty Players. This company of university teachers, staff, and their spouses brought an annual series of full-length plays to Knoxville audiences from 1933 to 1942, at which time a fall season of one-act plays given … Continued

Former Appalachian State head basketball coach and first-year employee as the UT basketball program’s coordinator of video scouting was suddenly named interim head basketball coach on March 21, 2011, when Bruce Pearl and three assistant coaches were fired. Fancher began his coaching career in 1988 as an assistant at Maryville College. He then went to … Continued

Faculty Pub, initiated in 2010 by Vice Provost for Faculty Affairs Sarah Gardial, is a twice-monthly gathering of faculty from across the university at the Boathouse for appetizers, drinks, entertainment, and conversation.

Construction began on the $20.9 million state-of-the-art addition to the College of Veterinary Medicine Teaching Hospital and associated renovations in spring 2011. The grand opening celebration was held September 21, 2013. The project included more than 85,000 square feet of new and renovated space. The Farm Animal Hospital includes standing and recumbent surgery suites, species-specific … Continued

In the 1930s there was talk of a representative faculty senate that would reduce the number of faculty attending meetings and provide more time for deliberation of issues brought to the faculty. In the late 1940s, as the number of faculty approached one thousand, meetings of the faculty became cumbersome. They had to be held … Continued

The Farmers’ Club, an agricultural student organization, was formed in 1890. Its recorded purpose was the “promulgation and preservation of pastoral patriotism.” It required candidates for membership to have “handl’d a hoe—rock’d a cradle—pull’d a bell cord—and raised cane!” Its motto was Hoe Out Your Row; its flower, Corn Flower; its color, grass green; and … Continued

The August 2007 issuance of a University Mission Statement and the subsequent issuance of a document setting forth organizational responsibilities touched off expressions of long-standing dissatisfaction with the UT system’s increasing assumption of responsibilities that on other flagship campuses within university systems were the responsibility of the campus. Chief among the issues were the continued … Continued