Following a July 2007 statement by Provost Robert Holub on his website condemning the omission of sexual orientation from UT’s hiring policies, UT Knoxville added a statement about sexual orientation to its hiring policies in late September 2007.

Abbreviation for Student Government Association.

The Student Government Association established an online discussion page in 1997 on a server hosted by the Office of Information Technology’s Innovative Technologies Center (ITC), as a forum for students to comment on campus issues. In March 1998 the SGA passed a bill requiring that anonymous posts on the forum be deleted. In March 1999 … Continued

In June 1991 the Knoxville Journal requested an April 4, 1990, audit report dealing with the relationship of Athletics Director Doug Dickey and his wife JoAnne, who owned a Shaklee distributorship, to the UT Athletics Department. The audit, prepared by UT auditor Richard Boring, indicated that Coach Dickey had learned from his staff that he … Continued

The Student Chapter of Habitat for Humanity first installed a shantytown of cardboard boxes on the Humanities Building lawn in November 1997. The effort was to educate students about homelessness and poverty. Students were invited to spend the night in the boxes. Chancellor Bill Snyder and representatives from the Salvation Army, Knox County Rescue Mission, … Continued

The student group Anti-Apartheid Coalition of Tennessee created a symbolic shantytown collection of shanties between Andy Holt Avenue and the Humanities Building in April 1989. The group had staged two protest marches in the preceding three months and had delivered a petition to President Alexander. Coalition member Amadou Janneh called the shantytown “a statement of … Continued

Dr. Sharp joined the faculty of the university’s Department of Botany in 1929. He had graduated from Ohio Wesleyan University, where he intended to study for the ministry and where he became a licensed minister at the end of his sophomore year. He earned the master’s degree at Oklahoma, where he developed his interest in … Continued

UT purchased Shelbourne Towers, an apartment building constructed in 1951 adjacent to the campus at 820 Twentieth Street, for $8 million. Various uses were proposed for the eight-story building, with 190 units, but the costs of renovation and structural strictures posed by its construction made retention of it unfeasible. The building was razed in 2014 … Continued

Jimmy Rea Shelby earned the BS in accounting from UT in 1959 and immediately sat for and passed the CPA exam, becoming the youngest (at age 21) person in the country to have passed the exam. He started his career at Sail Oil, a chain of gas stations, in which his brother had a stake, … Continued

Between fall quarter 1986 and winter quarter 1987, the student chapter of the American Society of Civil Engineers, with help from the Association of General Contractors and Chi Epsilon, the honor society for civil engineers, improved West View Park by building a shelter from which parents could watch their children at play. Fifteen UT students … Continued