The first online timetable of classes was placed on the web in fall 1998. The Student Government Association’s Technology Services Committee, under the leadership of Matt Disney, wrote the program to extract data from class information provided by Admissions and Records. Initially, the timetable required a special program for viewing, but the technology committee migrated … Continued

The University Libraries and the Office of Research established the Open Publishing Support Fund in October 2008 in response to the request of a group of life sciences faculty that UT provide incentives for faculty to publish in open access journals. (The Faculty Senate endorsed the Tempe Principles for Emerging Systems of Scholarly Publishing in … Continued

In summer 1968 Adam Clayton Powell announced that he would speak at UT. President Holt declined to allow it. When it was learned that Powell had not actually received an invitation from a campus group, the issue became moot, but the Powell incident prompted the faculty of the College of Law to vote to have … Continued

The Opening Night Club, a support group for the Department of Theatre, was established in 1975. Members originally paid $100 to belong, of which $65 was a gift to the Theatre Department.

President J. Wade Gilley reported to the board of trustees in January 2001 that a $1 million revolving fund for “opportunity hires” had been established for the Knoxville campus. The fund was for specific situations in which departments might not have a faculty line but had a chance to hire a faculty member who met … Continued

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The Orange and White was UT’s student newspaper, which first appeared in 1906 as a weekly newspaper, with a subscription price of $1. (A newspaper with the same name had been published in 1900, but it failed.) The paper expanded its coverage to include stories on national and international news oriented toward college students in … Continued

The week before the Orange and White Game is traditionally one of activities sponsored by campus organizations and, as the game approaches, by the Alumni Association. Activities range from ice cream socials to field days and cookouts.

In fall 1977 UT Facilities Services painted the front doors of houses owned by UT in the Lake Avenue/Terrace Avenue area “big orange” so that security and maintenance personnel could distinguish UT property from that owned by others. Inadvertently, three front doors of houses on Melrose Place were also painted, but those doors were repainted.