The University Outreach Division operates summer courses, programs, and camps for children and youth that are known as Kids U. The program was begun in 1994 by Vice Chancellor for Continuing Education LaVerne Lindsey and won a national Program of Excellence Award for creative programming that year from the National University Continuing Education Association.

Artist Bill Kidwell graduated from Central High School in 1954. He then served three and one-half years in the Marine Corps, and later entered UT to study art. Following a serious injury to three fingers of his right hand during dress rehearsal for the Carousel Theatre play Stalag 17 in 1958, he withdrew from UT … Continued

Lane Monte Kiffin signed a memorandum of understanding with UT on November 30, 2008, and was introduced as head football coach, to succeed the fired Phillip Fulmer, on December 1. Bringing with him his father, Monte, storied defensive guru of the National Football League; Ed Oregeon of the New Orleans Saints, formerly head coach at … Continued

A six-foot seven-inch, 205-pound forward from Brooklyn, New York, Bernard King (nicknamed “Burger” at UT) began his distinguished basketball career at Tennessee in 1974. He, together with teammate Ernie Grunfield, comprised the “Ernie and Bernie Show,” a duo so well respected for its prowess on the court that it made the cover of Sports Illustrated. … Continued

Since 1950 ETSU had offered undergraduate and graduate courses in Kingsport—first at the old Dobyns-Bennett High School building and then at the John Sevier Junior High School building. UT partnered with ETSU in 1964 to form the Kingsport Center, through which ETSU would continue to offer undergraduate and graduate coursework and UT would offer graduate … Continued

Kingston Apartments, a 21-story, 204,435-square-foot apartment building sited on 2.75 acres facing Kingston Pike, was opened in the fall of 1968. At the time it was Knoxville’s tallest building. Constructed at a cost of $3,327,000, the structure was built under a contract-to-purchase agreement with private developer John Fiser. Architects for the building were Lindsey and … Continued

In April 2006 UT announced that it was considering purchasing the former Albers Drug Company building, located off Cumberland Avenue adjacent to Tyson Park, most recently occupied by Metron North America. UT had budgeted $3 million to construct a warehouse at the Middlebrook Pike building for use by University Housing and the libraries, but the … Continued

One of the first five persons to graduate from UT having attended on the GI Bill was Mary Pless Kirby. A veteran of the WAVES, she received her degree in education on August 24, 1945, and became a teacher.

Dr. Robert H. Kirk was appointed as associate professor in the School of Health, Physical Education, and Recreation in fall 1967, becoming UT’s first full-time African American faculty member on campus. He received the bachelor’s degree from Fisk University and earned four graduate degrees, including a DHS (doctor of health and safety), from Indiana University. … Continued

Ron Kirksey, a Clinton, Tennessee, native and a 1970 UT graduate in political science, won the Pulitzer Prize in 1994 as part of a team of the Akron (Ohio) Beacon Journal in public journalism. The beating of Rodney King and the Los Angeles riots that followed led to the Beacon Journal’s in-depth probe of racial … Continued