UT Admissions has declared Monday’s Declaration Day live broadcast—a first-of-its-kind event celebrating the May 1 college confirmation deadline—a huge success. The hour-long program celebrated the campus and students who are choosing to come to UT in the fall. “It’s our national signing day,” said Kari Alldredge, vice provost for enrollment management. “We wanted to take
William Mercer, a lecturer in the Department of History, was recently interviewed for the PRX radio program Your Weekly Constitutional.
UT Admissions staged its first ever Declaration Day broadcast on Monday, May 1 from the Ray and Lucy Hand Digital Studio. The unique event celebrated the May 1 college confirmation deadline. WBIR featured coverage on the Declaration Day broadcast, and focused on one incoming freshman in particular, Xavier Grace of Memphis. Grace has faced much
Shannen Dee Williams, assistant professor in the Department of History, was a recent guest columnist for America Magazine. Her column, titled Emmett Till: The Lynching That Shook the Conscience of the World, expanded on the 1955 murder of Emmett Till, a 14-year-old boy from Chicago, Illinois.