Cleveland, Tennessee, was the first partner city to participate in the pilot term of the Smart Communities interdisciplinary program, which began in fall 2014 as part of UT’s service learning initiative. Through SCI, UT upperclassmen, graduate students, and a faculty partner with a city to work collaboratively toward community development and positive change. The program is modeled after the University of Oregon’s Sustainable City Year Program. In the SCI initiative, the city identifies several projects specific to their unique community needs, and the proposed projects are then matched to classrooms of students studying a relevant field. Once paired with a compatible project, the class then collaboratively channels its academic work toward the project.