Both men’s and women’s intercollegiate teams play in the Southeastern Conference, of which Tennessee was one of the organizers.

During the 1903 session of the Summer School of the South, a group of 18 women participants formed the Southern Association of Collegiate Alumnae, mirroring the Association of Collegiate Alumnae founded in Boston in 1882 and the Western Association of Collegiate Alumnae founded in 1883, which had merged with the ACA in 1889. Years-long discussions … Continued

In 1968 the Association of Women Students established a Southern Hospitality Committee to aid international students on campus and to create “greater international understanding” at UT.

The SREB, the nation’s first interstate compact for education, was founded in 1948 with 16 member states. It was founded to assist states in improving and sharing education resources. It is governed by a board that consists of the governors of the 16 member states and four additional members appointed by each governor—including at least … Continued

The Southern Sociological Society was founded (as the Southeastern Sociological Society) at meetings held at UT on April 20, 1935. William E. Cole, UT sociology professor, who had long advocated such an association, was in charge of the gathering of leading sociologists of the area. Dr. E. T. Krueger of Vanderbilt was elected the first … Continued

In the academic year 1909–10, the university joined the Southern University Debating Association, an association proposed by the University of Arkansas and composed, at the time, of the state universities of Arkansas, Louisiana, Tennessee, Texas, and Mississippi (in the order in which they signed the constitution). Each institution furnished annually two teams of two students, … Continued

Local newspapers ran banner headlines in 1958 announcing that “Space Medicine” was to be added at UT Memorial Hospital and Research Center. A year after Russia launched Sputnik and more than a decade before Neil Armstrong would walk on the moon, Dr. McChesney Goodall was appointed to the UT Research Center section of the University … Continued

For Tennessee Higher Education Commission space standards information, see Capital Outlay.

The nickname for the Stokely Management Center is the “Spam Can.”

Stirred by the battle cry “Remember the Maine,” a third of the graduating class of 1898 immediately applied for and received commissions in the army. At least 74 alumni and students served in the army and an additional 8 in the navy. Navy Commander Maynard Washburn fired the first shot of the war from the … Continued