In April 1985 UT held its first Career Carnival, offering students an opportunity to meet with representatives from more than one hundred companies. More than one thousand students attended the event, which was jointly sponsored by the university center and the Career Services Office and was held in the Carolyn P. Brown Memorial University Center … Continued
Through the UT Career Planning and Placement Office, a Career Co-Op program was established in 1984 to allow nonengineering colleges to participate in a regular program through which students would alternate terms of UT attendance with paid work experience. Associate Professor of Mathematics Russell Rowlett was named acting director of the program.
In 1916 R. H. Fitzgerald, the campus YMCA general secretary, began helping needy students find jobs in order to be able to attend the university by establishing an employment bureau through which local businesses and individuals could employ students for intermittent or regular work. O. N. Smith, YMCA secretary in 1921, expanded these efforts into … Continued
J. Gordon Carlson joined the faculty of the university’s Department of Zoology and Entomology as its head in 1947, held that position until 1967, was designated Alumni Distinguished Service Professor in 1962, and retired in 1978. From 1955 to 1972, he was also director of the Institute of Radiation Biology at the university. He gained … Continued
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The eighth president of the university (1858–60, as East Tennessee University) was a native South Carolinian who had entered the ministry at the age of 19 and had become a student at East Tennessee University in 1839, when he was already a married man in his thirties with a family. He quickly became known as … Continued
Carnicus is a term coined to signify the combining of the annual spring quarter student circus and the annual student carnival into a single event. The circus, usually held in May, had its roots in the city of Knoxville’s carnival, begun in 1897. In 1901 an outdoor carnival was held on the UT campus and … Continued
As early as 1944, a student union building was proposed. Students were vocal in expressing the need for such a facility, but construction funds available to the institution had to first meet the needs for student housing and academic facilities. In 1950 the university was notified by a New York law firm that it was … Continued