The house at 701 Sixteenth Street was part of the James Cowan Estate that UT purchased in 1920 for $61,000 from the widow of its successive owner, Daniel Briscoe Sr., who purchased the house in 1899 and moved into it in 1901. The Briscoe property was purchased with a portion of the Benjamin Rush Strong … Continued

Writer Elizabeth Cox grew up in Chattanooga on the campus of Baylor School as Betsy Barks, daughter of Baylor Headmaster Herb Barks Sr. She attended UT from fall 1960 to fall 1961 and also attended UTC before receiving the bachelor’s degree from the University of Mississippi in 1964. She received the MFA in Writing from … Continued

John Bogle Cox received the BS degree from the university in 1893. He was a member of Chi Delta. As a General Electric engineer, he supervised the installation of Europe’s first multiple train unit at the Paris Exposition of 1900 (at which UT exhibits won two gold medals). He also wired underground systems for the … Continued

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Loren Crabtree joined the administration at UT in 2001 as provost and vice president. When the office of chancellor was reinstated, he was named chancellor (July 1, 2003) and served until January 2008. Well respected by faculty and students, he differed in substantive ways with President John Petersen about governance issues and UT system responsibilities … Continued

Following a regularly scheduled meeting with President John Petersen to discuss ongoing problems in communication between the UT system and the Knoxville campus, Chancellor Loren Crabtree abruptly resigned on January 3, 2008. UT issued a press release in which President Petersen said that the two had “arrived at a joint decision” and announced Crabtree’s resignation … Continued

Terry Crawford received the BS in 1970 and the MS in 1972 from UT. When she was a student, there was no intercollegiate athletics program for women other than a few club teams housed in the Department of Physical Education. A group of people connected to the men’s track program decided to start a community … Continued

UT had paid the bank service charge fee for payment of academic fees until 2003. In 2003, as one of the ways it met the $15 million budget cut from the state, UT announced that it had entered into an agreement with First Horizon Merchant Services Inc. under which credit card payments for academic fees … Continued

In August 2000 President J. Wade Gilley announced that he had negotiated, and UT had signed, a contract through which Cricket Communications Inc. would provide cell phone service covering the campus to students in exchange for a payment to the university of $5,000 a month from September 1, 2000 through January 31, 2002, and an … Continued

The Jeanne Clery Disclosure of Campus Security Policy and Campus Crime Statistics Act is part of the Higher Education Act of 1965 and requires colleges and universities to disclose timely and annual information about campus crime and security policies. All public and private institutions of postsecondary education participating in federal student aid programs are subject … Continued