In 1955 the College of Home Economics established a department within the college to fulfill the three-year contract with the U. S. Foreign Operations Administration to assist the government of India in a nation-wide program to modernize home economics teaching and research in its higher education institutions. Margaret Fedde, former dean of home economics at … Continued

The Student Success Center’s UT LEAD program was implemented in fall 2007 as an academic supplement for the new Promise and Pledge Scholarship holders, as well as all returning students with the African American Achiever’s and African American Incentive Grant Scholarships. LEAD is an acronym for Leadership in a diverse world, Excellence in all endeavors, … Continued

In fall 1987, Tennesseans were offered the opportunity to purchase special UT license plates. Four designs were available—one for the statewide university, one for UT Martin, one for UT Knoxville, and one for the Medical Units in Memphis. More than fourteen hundred plates were ordered at a premium of $25 above the cost of a … Continued

A new business claiming to assist UT students opened on the Strip in 2002. The business offered lecture notes from specified classes for prices that ranged from “dollars on up.” Students could purchase notes from selected courses six days before a test. The notes taken within the six-day window were available for pickup the day … Continued

UT Notes was a publication issued by the UT Administration that carried official announcements for UT personnel. On September 23, 1965, the publication was incorporated into the Daily Beacon.

A UT Orchestra was first organized in 1915. It was reorganized in 1925, and Bertha Walburn Clark, who was responsible for beginning the Knoxville Symphony Orchestra, was the first director.

The Dramatic Club, a student theatrical organization, was organized in January 1916. The early dramatic clubs, the Kit Kat Klub and the Rouge and Powder Club (revived briefly as the Stage Fright Club in 1910), had been replaced by entities such as a YWCA company and the Barbara Blount Hall girls, which generally put on … Continued

Student plays of the university were given the name UT Playhouse in 1936, as the Actors’ Workshop was reorganized and renamed. In 1939 faculty member Paul Soper was appointed director of the UT Playhouse, which became a part of the curriculum, preparing students for careers as performers, teachers, and stagecraft professionals. The first theatre courses … Continued

For 38 years the UT Police Department was housed in a temporary, barracks-like building at 1115 UT Drive. The space was too small and not appropriately configured. UT first announced that the department would move to the Lake Avenue Garage, but that plan was scrapped for cost reasons. In 2004 UT announced that the department … Continued

The UT Press was actually established in 1898, but during its first 42 years, it published annual reports, commencement speeches, and other official documents of UT. In 1940 it was reorganized as a scholarly publisher under the Publications Council, with the charge to stimulate “scientific and scholarly research in all fields.” It published its first … Continued