Alumni Inspire Graduates at Commencement
UT concluded the spring semester celebrating more than 5,250 graduates over three days and 11 commencement ceremonies.
UT concluded the spring semester celebrating more than 5,250 graduates over three days and 11 commencement ceremonies.
UT will host 11 commencement ceremonies May 20–22 for spring and summer 2022 graduates in Thompson-Boling Arena.
The UT Board of Trustees approved a nearly $1.35 billion budget for the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, campus that included a zero percent tuition increase for the 2021–22 fiscal year.
The Board of Trustees approved a proposal to award an honorary Doctorate of Humane Letters to Librarian of Congress Carla Hayden.
Presidential historian and Pulitzer Prize–winning author Jon Meacham urged UT graduates to embrace their Tennessee spirit by learning from the past and thinking for themselves.
The campus community is invited to a sit-down with Pulitzer Prize-winning writer, editor and scholar, and honorary doctorate recipient Jon Meacham at 8 p.m. Thursday, December 14.
UT’s undergraduate commencement and graduate hooding ceremonies will be held December 14-15.
The UT Board of Trustees on Friday approved awarding transportation magnate Scott Niswonger an honorary degree from UT Knoxville.
Harrison H. “Jack” Schmitt was part of the last manned mission to the moon. Today, he shared lessons learned from that December 1972 mission with graduates of UT’s College of Arts and Sciences. During the Apollo 17 mission, the rocket that was to return home needed electrical signals to ignite. Schmitt and his fellow astronauts
Phil Bredesen—Tennessee’s 48th governor—received an honorary degree from UT Knoxville at the graduate hooding ceremony Thursday evening.
Ken Lowe, CEO of Scripps Networks Interactive and creator of HGTV, told UT graduates that he built his career by combining things he loved—home remodeling, television, and electronic media.
More than 4,000 students, including 3,038 undergraduates, 805 graduate, 96 law, and 82 veterinary medicine students, will participate in commencement ceremonies next week at UT.