In April 2000 President Gilley appointed a committee designed to improve student life on campus. He announced that the institution would take the recommendations of the committee and build them into the process of improving life for all students. He appointed Dr. Grady Bogue, professor of leadership studies in the College of Education, as chair. … Continued

President J. Wade Gilley was sued by Associate General Counsel Ron Leadbetter in federal district court in November 2000 for reverse gender and racial discrimination in the action of appointing Catherine Mizell to the open position of general counsel of UT, and the promotion of Theotis Robinson Jr. to the position of equity and diversity … Continued

J. Wade Gilley began his term as president of the university August 1, 1999. His official inauguration was held November 5. Following questions by students about the use of funds for an inauguration at a time when there was a hiring freeze and significant efforts to have the state raise the UT appropriation, an anonymous … Continued

In February 2000 the biweekly newsmagazine Black Issues in Higher Education named UT President J. Wade Gilley one of the most influential university presidents of the last one hundred years for his efforts to promote diversity on campus. In his college days at Virginia Tech, Gilley was a founding member of the American Indian College … Continued

In February 2000 the board of trustees approved a major institutional reorganization, which reduced the number of campuses from four to three by combining the Knoxville campus with the Medical Center at Memphis and the Space Institute at Tullahoma. That institution, often referred to as Big Orange University, was to be the flagship campus, with … Continued

UT President J. Wade Gilley announced in February 2000 that the institutional streamlining of administrative duties and merger of UT Knoxville, UTSI, and the Health Science Center in Memphis were facets of his overall Tennessee Plan for Academic Excellence, designed to make the merged units that formed the University of Tennessee a Top-25 public research … Continued

Theodore Glocker received the PhD from Johns Hopkins in 1907 in social work and economics. He was an instructor in political economy at Johns Hopkins in 1907-08 and became an assistant in the Research Department of the School of Social Work in Boston, which was affiliated with Harvard. From 1909 to 1912, he served as … Continued

The Global Ring Network for Advanced Applications Development is a fiber-optic network directly connecting scientific and education communities in the United States with 10 partner nations and indirectly with almost every other nation in the world. When universities or federal agencies send huge files to sister organizations in partner nations, GLORIAD carries the files. The … Continued