Victor Ashe graduated from the UT College of Law in 1974. He served as an intern in the office of Tennessee Representative Bill Brock (1965) and was a staff assistant to then-Senator Howard H. Baker in 1967. He served in the Tennessee House of Representatives from 1968 to 1974. He ran for the Tennessee Senate … Continued

Asphalt roads began to be installed on campus in 1921.

In 1975 the board of trustees adopted the policy that UT would not develop associate degree programs in any city containing a community college except when a UT campus located in that city has unique capabilities in the subject area of the degree, a strong local demand exists, and a feasibility study has shown that … Continued

The Associated Women Students organization evolved from the Women’s League, which was organized shortly after women were readmitted to the university in 1893. (The ASW constitution was issued in 1895.) It came into being by a name change from the Women’s Student Government Association. All regularly enrolled women students of the university were members of … Continued

The Association for Computing Machinery was founded in 1947 and is committed to advancing the arts, sciences, and applications of information technology. It has chapters and members in more than one hundred countries. The student chapter at UT is housed within the Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Department and serves its members by providing information … Continued

In 1968 educators in Tennessee organized the Tennessee College Women’s Sports Federation to serve as a governing body for women’s intercollegiate sports. The Association for Intercollegiate Athletics for Women (AIAW) was established in 1971 to provide governance and leadership in the assurance of standards of excellence and educational soundness in women’s intercollegiate athletics. In 1972 … Continued

The Association of Public and Land-Grant Universities, an organization of 236 public and research universities and state university systems in the United States, Canada, and Mexico, gave UT Knoxville its 2014 Most Visible Progress Trailblazer Award in November 2014. UT was recognized as a national leader for taking an innovative approach that can be modeled … Continued

The UT Libraries became a member of the Association of Research Libraries in 1962 when only 41 other research libraries had been admitted to membership in this not-for-profit organization of the nation’s top research libraries.

Founded in 1916, the AACSB is a nonprofit agency and the primary accrediting agency for the Colleges of Business Administration. Programs at UT in accounting, business administration, economics, finance, logistics and transportation, marketing, and statistics are accredited by the AACSB.

Large, orbiting asteroids were named in honor of two faculty members of the Earth and Planetary Sciences Department in 2001. Asteroid 1981 EH41 was named the 4395 DanBritt for Research Associate Professor Dr. Dan Britt. This asteroid orbits the main asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter and is about the size of the Great Smoky … Continued