At the October 1999 board of trustees’ meeting, President J. Wade Gilley announced a hiring freeze on nonacademic positions throughout the university system. The freeze did not apply to faculty, computing, library, and student positions. It also did not extend to auxiliary operations hiring. Chancellors and vice presidents were instructed to review each nonacademic vacancy … Continued

The Office of Admissions established a Hispanic Advisory Committee and prepared a Hispanic recruitment brochure similar to the brochure previously developed for recruitment of African American students in winter 2005. The Advisory Committee was to assist in the strategic recruitment of Hispanic students.

UT applied to the Tennessee Historical Commission for placement of two historical markers in 2012. The first, placed in late fall 2012, commemorated desegregation of the university and had been applied for as part of the 50th-year anniversary of the desegregation of the undergraduate student body. The second celebrated UT’s designation as Tennessee’s land-grant university … Continued

In 1978 the Tennessee Legislature passed a law requiring that after “July 1, 1978, no person shall be granted a baccalaureate degree of any kind . . . unless he or she has earned credit in American History.” Students having taken a year of US history in high school did not have to take additional … Continued

NASA astronaut Charles Hobaugh was selected for astronaut candidacy in 1996 while pursuing a degree at UTSI, although his official biography does not list UTSI. He served as pilot on STS 104 (2001) and STS-118 in 2007.

In fall 1982 Intramural Director Harold Denton introduced hocker as an intramural sport. Hocker is a seven-member team game that is a combination of soccer, football, ice hockey, and rugby and is played with a rubber 15-inch diameter ball.

Dr. John C. Hodges earned the bachelor’s degree from Meridan College (1911), the master’s from Tulane University (1912), and the PhD from Harvard (1918). He did an additional year of graduate study at the University of Wisconsin before serving as instructor in English at Northwestern for three years and as associate professor of English at … Continued

The US Bureau of Animal Industry began its investigation of the cause of hog cholera in 1887 and found what they thought was the cause—bacillus cholerae suis. Dr. Marion Dorset, an 1893 UT graduate, however, discovered that the actual cause was a filterable virus. In 1903 Dorset developed an immunization program that used both blood … Continued

John Hohenberg accepted a position as the Edward Meeman Visiting Professor of Journalism at UT for 1976–77, served as the Gannett Professor of Journalism at the University of Kansas in 1977–78, and then returned to UT as professor in the Journalism Department. A distinguished journalist and journalism educator, Hohenberg was the author of 22 books—including … Continued