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{{Short description|Public university in Knoxville, Tennessee, US}}
{{Infobox university
 | name                   = University of Tennessee
 | other_name             = Tennessee (colloquially)<br/>UT<br/>UTK<br/>UT Knoxville<br/>UTenn
 | former_names           = Blount College (1794–1807)<br/>East Tennessee College (1807–1840)<br/>East Tennessee University (1840–1879)
 | image_name             = University of Tennessee seal.png
 | image_upright          = .6
 | motto                  = {{lang|la|Veritatem cognoscetis, et veritas vos liberabit.}} ([[Social:Latin|Latin]])
 | mottoeng               = "You will know the truth and [[Philosophy:The truth will set you free|the truth shall set you free]]."<br>'''On seal:''' "Agriculture, Commerce"
 | established            = {{start date and age|1794|9|10}}
 | type                   = Public [[Organization:Land-grant university|land-grant]] research university
 | endowment              = $1.34 billion (2020)<ref>As of June 30, 2020{{cite report |url=https://www.nacubo.org/-/media/Documents/Research/2020-NTSE-Public-Tables--Endowment-Market-Values--FINAL-FEBRUARY-19-2021.ashx |title=U.S. and Canadian Institutions Listed by Fiscal Year 2020 Endowment Market Value and Change in Endowment Market Value from FY19 to FY20 |publisher=National Association of College and University Business Officers and TIAA |date=February 19, 2021 |access-date=February 19, 2021}}</ref>
 | parent                 = [[Organization:University of Tennessee system|University of Tennessee system]]
 | academic_affiliations  = {{hlist|ORAU|URA|[[Organization:Sun Grant Association|Sun Grant]]}}
 | chancellor             = Donde Plowman<ref>{{cite web|url=https://chancellor.utk.edu/meet-chancellor-donde-plowman/ |title=Donde Plowman|access-date=July 12, 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190506162653/https://tennessee.edu/execsearch/ut-knoxville-chancellor/donde-plowman/|archive-date=May 6, 2019|url-status=live}}</ref>
 | provost                = John Zomchick<ref>{{cite web|url=https://provost.utk.edu/about-the-provost/|title=About the Provost|access-date=April 1, 2021}}</ref>
 | faculty                = 1,700+<ref name="quickfacts">{{cite web |url=http://www.utk.edu/aboutut/numbers/ |title=Quick Facts |publisher=University of Tennessee Knoxville |year=2017 |access-date=April 15, 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170402170528/http://www.utk.edu/aboutut/numbers/ |archive-date=April 2, 2017 |url-status=live }}</ref>
 | administrative_staff   = 9,791<ref name="quickfacts"/>
 | students               = 36,304 (Fall 2023)<ref name="enrollment">{{cite web|title=University of Tennessee, Knoxville Fact Book |url=https://oira.utk.edu/reporting/fact-book/ |access-date=September 13, 2022}}</ref>
 | undergrad              = 28,883 (Fall 2023)<ref name="enrollment"/>
 | postgrad               = 7,421 (Fall 2023)<ref name="enrollment"/>
 | address                = 1212 Volunteer Blvd
 | city                   = Knoxville
 | state                  = {{wipe|Tennessee}}
 | country                = United States
 | coor                   = {{Coord|35|57|6|N|83|55|48|W|type:airport|display=inline,title}}
 | campus                 = Midsize city<ref>{{cite web|url=https://nces.ed.gov/collegenavigator/?q=Tennessee&s=all&pg=3&id=221759|title=IPEDS-University of Tennessee, Knoxville}}</ref>
 | campus_size            = {{cvt|600|acre}}<ref name="quickfacts"/><br/>Total, {{cvt|2128|acre}}<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1G1-155345882.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121104194912/http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1G1-155345882.html |url-status=dead |archive-date=November 4, 2012 |title=Highbeam.com |publisher=Highbeam.com |access-date=May 11, 2012}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.graduateguide.com/University-of-Tennessee-Space-Institute.htm |title=Graduateguide.com |publisher=Graduateguide.com |date=October 13, 2010 |access-date=May 11, 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100820141537/http://www.graduateguide.com/University-of-Tennessee-Space-Institute.htm |archive-date=August 20, 2010 |url-status=dead }}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.utm.edu/ |title=UTM.edu |publisher=UTM.edu |access-date=May 11, 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120504015515/http://www.utm.edu/ |archive-date=May 4, 2012 |url-status=live }}</ref>
 | colors                 = [[Shades of orange#UT orange|Orange]] and white<ref name="Colors">{{cite web |title=Color Palettes &#124; Brand Guidelines |url=http://brand.utk.edu/colors/palettes/ |access-date=September 12, 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160307195731/http://brand.utk.edu/colors/palettes/ |archive-date=March 7, 2016 |url-status=live }}</ref><br/>{{color box|#FF8200}}&nbsp;{{color box|#FFFFFF}}
 | sporting_affiliations  = {{hlist|NCAA Division I FBS – SEC|Big 12}}
 | sports_nickname        = {{nowrap| Volunteers & Lady Volunteers}}
 | mascot                 = Smokey XI
 | website                = {{URL|www.utk.edu}}
 | logo                   = UT Knoxville logo left.svg
 | logo_upright           = 
 | accreditation          = [[Organization:Southern Association of Colleges and Schools|SACS]]
 | free_label             = Newspaper
 | free                   = ''The Daily Beacon''
}}

The '''University of Tennessee, Knoxville,''' (or '''The University of Tennessee'''; '''UT'''; '''UT Knoxville'''; or colloquially '''UTK''' or '''Tennessee''') is a public [[Organization:Land-grant university|land-grant]] research university in Knoxville, Tennessee, United States. Founded in 1794, two years before Tennessee became the 16th state, it is the flagship campus of the [[Organization:University of Tennessee system|University of Tennessee system]], with ten undergraduate colleges and eleven graduate colleges. It hosts more than 30,000 students from all 50 states and more than 100 foreign countries. It is [[Carnegie Classification of Institutions of Higher Education|classified]] among "R1: Doctoral Universities – Very high research activity".<ref>{{cite web |title=Carnegie Classifications Institution Lookup |url=https://carnegieclassifications.iu.edu/lookup/view_institution.php?unit_id=190415 |publisher=Center for Postsecondary Education |website=carnegieclassifications.iu.edu |access-date=July 18, 2020}}</ref>

UT's ties to nearby [[Organization:Oak Ridge National Laboratory|Oak Ridge National Laboratory]], established under UT President Andrew Holt and continued under the UT–Battelle partnership, allow for considerable research opportunities for faculty and students. Also affiliated with the university are the Howard H. Baker Jr. Center for Public Policy, the [[Organization:University of Tennessee Anthropological Research Facility|University of Tennessee Anthropological Research Facility]], and the University of Tennessee Arboretum, which occupies {{cvt|250|acre}} of nearby Oak Ridge and features hundreds of species of plants indigenous to the region. The university is a direct partner of the University of Tennessee Medical Center, which is one of two Level I [[Medicine:Trauma center|trauma center]]s in East Tennessee.

The university holds collections of the papers of all three U.S. presidents from Tennessee—Andrew Jackson, James K. Polk, and Andrew Johnson. Nine of its alumni have been selected as Rhodes Scholars and one alumnus, [[Biography:James M. Buchanan|James M. Buchanan]], received the 1986 Nobel Prize in Economics.

==History==
[[File:The Hill at UT Knoxville in the 1800s.jpg|thumb|300px|''The Hill''. The University of Tennessee was established in 1794, making it one of the oldest institutions of higher education in the U.S.]]

===Founding and early days===
On September 10, 1794, two years before Tennessee became a state and at a meeting of the legislature of the Southwest Territory at Knoxville, '''Blount College''' (named for Governor William Blount) was established with a charter.<ref>{{cite web |title=The University of Tennessee: The Trip to the Hill - Knoxville History Project |url=http://knoxvillehistoryproject.org/2015/08/20/the-university-of-tennessee-the-trip-to-the-hill/ |website=Knoxville History Project |access-date=October 17, 2018 |date=August 20, 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181017203255/http://knoxvillehistoryproject.org/2015/08/20/the-university-of-tennessee-the-trip-to-the-hill/ |archive-date=October 17, 2018 |url-status=live }}</ref> The new, non-sectarian, all-male, white-only institution struggled for 13 years with a small student body and faculty, and in 1807, the school was rechartered as '''East Tennessee College''' as a condition of receiving the proceeds from the settlement devised in the Compact of 1806. When Samuel Carrick, its first president and only faculty member, died in 1809, the school was temporarily closed until 1820. When it reopened, it began experiencing growing pains. Thomas Jefferson had previously recommended that the college leave its confining single building in the city and relocate to a place it could spread out. In the summer of 1826 (coincidentally, the year that Thomas Jefferson died), the trustees explored "Barbara Hill" (today known simply as ''The Hill'') as a potential site and relocated there by 1828.<ref>Neeley, Jack. ''Knoxville's Secret History''. Knoxville: Scruffy City Publishing, 1995, pp. 81–83. Retrieved October 27, 2012</ref> In 1840, the college was elevated to '''East Tennessee University''' (ETU). The school's status as a religiously non-affiliated institution of higher learning was unusual for the period of time in which it was chartered, and the school is generally recognized as the oldest such establishment of its kind west of the Appalachian Divide.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.utk.edu/aboutut/history.shtml |title=UTK.edu |publisher=UTK.edu |access-date=May 11, 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120503185654/http://www.utk.edu/aboutut/history.shtml |archive-date=May 3, 2012 |url-status=dead}}</ref>

===Reconstruction===
Tennessee was a member of the [[Place:Confederate States of America|Confederacy]] in 1862 when the [[Organization:Morrill Land-Grant Acts|Morrill Act]] was passed, providing for endowment funds from the sale of federal land to state agricultural colleges. On February 28, 1867, Congress passed a special Act making the State of Tennessee eligible to participate in the [[Organization:Morrill Land-Grant Acts|Morrill Act]] of 1862 program. In January 1869, the Reconstruction-era Tennessee state government designated ETU as Tennessee's recipient of the Land-Grant designation and funds.

As a land-grant institution, ETU was bound not to exclude any citizens of the state on the basis of color or race. To get around the requirement, the university chose to pay tuition for Black students to attend a separate institution, [[Organization:Fisk University|Fisk University]].<ref name=desegregation>{{cite web | url = https://volopedia.lib.utk.edu/entries/desegregation/ | date = September 25, 2018 | last = Hutton | first = Robert | title = Desegregation | website = University of Tennessee | access-date = October 1, 2023}}</ref> The following year, in 1870, the Tennessee Constitution was ratified with a provision, Article XI § 12, that prohibited public schools from enrolling both Black and White students, a policy that remained in place until the 1950s.<ref name=desegregation/>

In accepting the land grant funds, the university would focus upon instructing students in military, agricultural, and mechanical subjects. ETU eventually received $396,000 as its endowment under the program. Trustees soon approved the establishment of a medical program under the auspices of the Nashville School of Medicine and added advanced degree programs. East Tennessee University was renamed the '''University of Tennessee''' in 1879 by the state legislature.<ref>{{cite web |title=Renaming of University of Tennessee |url=http://www.utk.edu/aboutut/history/ |access-date=December 17, 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121201051930/http://www.utk.edu/aboutut/history/ |archive-date=December 1, 2012 |url-status=dead}}</ref>

===World War II===
During World War II, UT was one of 131 colleges and universities nationally that took part in the V-12 Navy College Training Program which offered students a path to a Navy commission.<ref name="list-of-v-12">{{cite web |url=http://www.ibiblio.org/hyperwar/USN/Admin-Hist/115-8thND/115-8ND-23.html |title=U.S. Naval Administration in World War II |publisher=HyperWar Foundation |access-date=September 29, 2011 |year=2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120112105122/http://www.ibiblio.org/hyperwar/USN/Admin-Hist/115-8thND/115-8ND-23.html |archive-date=January 12, 2012 |url-status=live }}</ref>

===Civil rights era===
Although the university was required to enroll students of any race or ethnicity as a public, land-grant institution, the Tennessee state constitution prohibited integrated education.<ref name=desegregation/> Only white students were accepted until 1952, when the first two Black students were allowed to enroll in a graduate program. Even after educational segregation was ruled unconstitutional by the Supreme Court in 1954 in ''Brown v. Board of Education'', the university resisted desegregation. Black students could first enroll as undergraduates in 1961.<ref name=desegregation/>

African-American attorney Rita Sanders Geier filed suit against the state of Tennessee in 1968, alleging that its higher education system remained segregated despite a federal mandate ordering desegregation. She alleged that the opening of a University of Tennessee campus at Nashville would lead to the creation of another predominantly white institution that would strip resources from [[Organization:Tennessee State University|Tennessee State University]], the only state-funded Historically black university. The suit was not settled until 2001, when the Geier Consent Decree resulted in the appropriation of $77 million in state funding to increase diversity among student and faculty populations among all Tennessee institutions of higher learning.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://chancellor.utk.edu/announcements/20070904.shtml |title=UTK.edu |publisher=Chancellor.utk.edu |date=September 4, 2007 |access-date=May 11, 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120325194031/http://chancellor.utk.edu/announcements/20070904.shtml |archive-date=March 25, 2012 |url-status=dead}}</ref>

==Organization==
[[File:UT Ayres Hall front.jpg|thumb|237px|Ayres Hall]]

===Administration===
The University of Tennessee, Knoxville is the flagship campus of the statewide [[Organization:University of Tennessee system|University of Tennessee system]], which is governed by a 12-member board of trustees appointed by the Governor of Tennessee. The Board of Trustees appoints a president to oversee the operations of the system, four campuses, and two statewide institutes.<ref>{{cite web |title=About the UT System |url=http://tennessee.edu/about/ |access-date=June 12, 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190629181808/https://tennessee.edu/about/ |archive-date=June 29, 2019 |url-status=live }}</ref> Randy Boyd, a former candidate for governor, is the current president following the retirement of Joseph A. DiPietro.<ref>{{cite web |title=Office of the President |url=https://president.tennessee.edu/ |access-date=June 12, 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190704052826/https://president.tennessee.edu/ |archive-date=July 4, 2019 |url-status=live }}</ref> The president appoints, with Board of Trustees approval, chancellors for each campus. The Knoxville campus has been headed by Chancellor Donde Plowman since 2019.<ref>{{cite web |title=Office of the Chancellor |url=https://chancellor.utk.edu/ |access-date=September 27, 2021 }}</ref> Provost and Senior Vice Chancellor John Zomchick is responsible for the academic administration of the Knoxville campus and is a member of the Chancellor's Cabinet.<ref>{{cite web |title=Chancellor's Cabinet |url=https://chancellor.utk.edu/cabinet/ |access-date=September 27, 2021 }}</ref>

====Controversy====
On December 15, 2016, the UT Board of Trustees confirmed Beverly J. Davenport as the next Chancellor of the Knoxville campus, succeeding Jimmy Cheek. She was the first female Chancellor of the university.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://news.tennessee.edu/2016/12/15/board-of-trustees-confirms-chancellor-appointments-general-counsel-reorganization/ |title=Board Confirms Chancellor Appointments, General Counsel Reorganization |publisher=University of Tennessee |date=December 15, 2016 |access-date=December 16, 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161220120511/http://news.tennessee.edu/2016/12/15/board-of-trustees-confirms-chancellor-appointments-general-counsel-reorganization/ |archive-date=December 20, 2016 |url-status=live }}</ref> On May 2, 2018, UT President Joe DiPietro fired Davenport, citing poor communication and interpersonal skills, among other reasons. The decision received criticism from the student body and faculty, as these reasons were also listed as strengths of Davenport, and why DiPietro chose to hire her a little over one year earlier. She was rehired.<ref name="tenn20180502">{{cite news |url=https://www.tennessean.com/story/news/2018/05/02/statement-soon-ut-chancellor-davenport/573782002/ |title=Davenport fired as UT's chancellor, will be retained as faculty at $439K annually |work=The Tennessean |first=Amy J. |last=Vellucci |date=May 2, 2018 |access-date=June 21, 2018}}</ref>

===University Medical Center===

The University of Tennessee Medical Center, administered by University Health Systems and affiliated with the University of Tennessee Graduate School of Medicine, collaborates with the University of Tennessee Health Science Center to attract and train the majority of its medical staff. Many doctors and nurses at UTMC have integrated careers as teachers and healthcare professionals, and the center promotes itself as the area's only academic, or "teaching hospital".

The University Medical Center is the primary referral center for East Tennessee, Western North Carolina, and Southeastern Kentucky. It is one of three Level I trauma centers in the East Tennessee geographic region. Extensive expansion programs were embarked upon the 1990s and 2000s (decade) and saw the construction of two sprawling additions to the hospital's campus, a new Cancer Institute and a Heart Lung Vascular Institute. The new UT Medical Center Heart Hospital received its first patient on April 27, 2010.<ref>[http://www.utmedicalcenter.org/news/First+Heart+Hospital+patient+and+family+thankful+for+new+facility/2209.html  First Heart Hospital patient and family thankful for new facility] University of Tennessee Medical Center {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100702183439/http://www.utmedicalcenter.org/news/First+Heart+Hospital+patient+and+family+thankful+for+new+facility/2209.html |date=July 2, 2010 }}</ref>

==Academics==

===Admissions===

====Undergraduate====

{{Infobox U.S. college admissions
|year              = 2023
|admit rate        = 40.5
|admit rate change = −37.3
|yield rate        = 33.2
|yield rate change = 6.7
|SAT Total         = 1240–1400
|SAT Total change  = 
|ACT               = 26–31
|ACT change        = 
|float             = right
|ref               = <ref name="FallEnrollmentReport">{{cite web |url= https://admissions.utk.edu/regular-admission-release/ |title=UTK Fall 2023 Admissions|publisher=UTK Officr of Admissions |access-date=2023-07-10}}</ref>
}}

The 2022 annual ranking of ''U.S. News & World Report'' categorizes UT as "more selective".<ref>{{cite magazine |url=http://colleges.usnews.rankingsandreviews.com/best-colleges/university-of-tennessee-3530 |title=U.S. News Best Colleges Rankings: University of Tennessee |magazine=U.S. News & World Report |year=2017 |access-date=December 15, 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161024221550/http://colleges.usnews.rankingsandreviews.com/best-colleges/university-of-tennessee-3530 |archive-date=October 24, 2016 |url-status=live }}</ref> For the Class of 2025 (enrolled fall 2021), UT received 29,909 applications and accepted 22,413 (74.9%). Of those accepted, 5,948 enrolled, a yield rate (the percentage of accepted students who choose to attend the university) of 26.5%. UT's 2023 freshman retention rate is 91.1%, with 73.5% going on to graduate from the university within six years.<ref name="FallEnrollmentReport"/>

The enrolled first-year class of 2025 had the following standardized test scores: the middle 50% range (25th percentile – 75th percentile) of SAT scores was 1180–1340, while the middle 50% range of ACT scores was 25–31.<ref name="FallEnrollmentReport"/>

{| class="wikitable" style="text-align:center; float:left; font-size:90%; margin:10px;"
|+ '''Fall First-Time Freshman Statistics'''
<ref name="FallEnrollmentReport"/>
<ref>{{cite web |url=https://oira.utk.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/66/2021/05/CDS_2020_2021-Full-1.pdf |title=UTK Common Data Set 2020-2021
 |publisher=UTK Office of Institutional Research and Assessment|access-date=2022-11-06}}</ref>
<ref>{{cite web |url=https://oira.utk.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/66/2020/07/CDS_2019-2020_Full.pdf |title=UTK Common Data Set 2019-2020
 |publisher=UTK Office of Institutional Research and Assessment|access-date=2022-11-06}}</ref>
<ref>{{cite web |url=https://oira.utk.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/66/2020/02/2018-19-CDS_FULL.pdf |title=UTK Common Data Set 2018-2019
 |publisher=UTK Office of Institutional Research and Assessment|access-date=2022-11-06}}</ref>
<ref>{{cite web |url=https://oira.utk.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/66/2019/03/CDS_2017_2018-Full.pdf |title=UTK Common Data Set 2017-2018
 |publisher=UTK Office of Institutional Research and Assessment|access-date=2022-11-06}}</ref>
<ref>{{cite web |url=http://oira.utk.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/66/2018/05/CDS_2016_2017.pdf |title=UTK Common Data Set 2016-2017
 |publisher=UTK Office of Institutional Research and Assessment|access-date=2022-11-06}}</ref>
|-
! 
! 2023 !! 2022 !! 2021 !! 2020 !! 2019 !! 2018 !! 2017 !! 2016
|-
! Applicants
| 49,790 || 36,290 || 29,909 || 25,423 || 21,764 || 20,457 || 18,872 || 17,583
|-
! Admits
| 20,165 || 24,826 || 22,413 || 19,867 || 17,160 || 15,912 || 14,526 || 13,578
|-
! Admit rate
| 40.5 || 68.4 || 74.9 || 78.1 || 78.8 || 77.8 || 77.0 || 77.2
|-
! Enrolled
| 6,694 || 6,846 || 5,948 || 5,512 || 5,254 || 5,215 || 4,895 || 4,851
|-
! Yield rate
| 33.2 || 27.6 || 26.5 || 27.7 || 30.6 || 32.8 || 33.7 || 35.7
|-
! ACT composite*<br/><small>(out of 36)</small>
| 26–31 || 25–30 || 25–31 || 25–31 || 24–30 || 25–31 || 25–30 || 24–30
|- 
! SAT composite*<br/><small>(out of 1600)</small>
| 1240–1400 || {{sdash}} || 1180–1340 || 1140–1290 || 1140–1310 || 1150–1330 || 1140–1310 || {{sdash}}
|-
| * middle 50% range
|}

{{clear}}

===Rankings===

{{Infobox US university ranking
| ARWU_W = 201–300
| USNWR_NU = 103
| THE_WSJ = 279
| USNWR_W = 218
| THES_W = 301–350
| Wamo_NU = 106
| Forbes = 117
| QS_W = 446
}}

The University of Tennessee was tied for 46th among public universities and tied for 103rd among national universities in the United States by ''U.S. News & World Report'' in its 2022 rankings.<ref>{{cite web |date=2022 |title=University of Tennessee Rankings |url=https://www.usnews.com/best-colleges/university-of-tennessee-3530/overall-rankings |access-date=February 26, 2022 |series=Best Colleges |magazine=U.S. News & World Report}}</ref>

The University of Tennessee was ranked as the most LGBTQ-unfriendly university in the United States by ''The Princeton Review'' among all 388 institutions it surveyed for its 2023 rankings. The campus Pride Center has been defunded and vandalized several times.<ref>{{cite news |work=10 News WBLR |url=https://www.wbir.com/article/news/education/ut-most-lgbtqia-unfriendly-university/51-9e1231c8-bb40-40ae-b9b4-0e22c1d609d5 |title=UT ranks as most LGBTQIA+ unfriendly university in national survey |date=August 25, 2022 |first1=Mary |last1=Klingler |first2=Chris |last2=Salvemini}}</ref>

===Research===
The total research endowment of the UT Knoxville campus was $127,983,213 for FY 2006. UT Knoxville boasts several faculty who are among the leading contributors to their fields, including Harry McSween, generally recognized as one of the world's leading experts in the study of meteorites and a member of the science team for [[Astronomy:Mars Pathfinder|Mars Pathfinder]] and later a co-investigator for the Mars Odyssey and Mars Exploration Rovers projects.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://web.eps.utk.edu/~faculty/mcsween/mcsween.html |title=UTK.edu |publisher=Web.eps.utk.edu |access-date=May 11, 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120217061309/http://web.eps.utk.edu/~faculty/mcsween/mcsween.html |archive-date=February 17, 2012 |url-status=dead}}</ref> The university also hosts Barry T. Rouse, an international award-winning Distinguished Professor of Microbiology who has conducted multiple NIH-funded studies on the herpes simplex virus (HSV) and who is a leading researcher in his field.<ref>[http://web.bio.utk.edu/micro/faculty/rouse/RouseWebCV2004.pdf UTK.edu] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110720104713/http://web.bio.utk.edu/micro/faculty/rouse/RouseWebCV2004.pdf |date=July 20, 2011 }}</ref> UT's agricultural research programs are considered to be among the most accomplished in the nation, and the Institute for a Secure and Sustainable Environment is home to the East Tennessee Clean Fuels Initiative, recognized by the United States Department of Energy as the "best local clean fuels program in America".<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.utk.edu/news/article.php?id=3793 |archive-url=https://archive.today/20120806004753/http://www.utk.edu/news/article.php?id=3793 |url-status=dead |archive-date=August 6, 2012 |title=UTK.edu |publisher=UTK.edu |date=September 11, 2006 |access-date=May 11, 2012}}</ref>

====Oak Ridge National Laboratory====
The major hub of research at the University of Tennessee is [[Organization:Oak Ridge National Laboratory|Oak Ridge National Laboratory]] (ORNL), one of the largest government laboratories in the United States. ORNL is a major center of civilian and governmental research<ref name="ornlreview1">{{cite journal |url=http://www.ornl.gov/info/ornlreview/v37_2_04/v37_no2_04review.pdf |title=Leadership-class Computing for Science |journal=ORNL Review |volume=37 |issue=2 |issn=0048-1262 |year=2004 |access-date=November 23, 2005 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20051130023022/http://www.ornl.gov/info/ornlreview/v37_2_04/v37_no2_04review.pdf |archive-date=November 30, 2005 |url-status=dead}}</ref> and features two of the world's most powerful supercomputers.

[[File:UT-mall.jpg|thumb|Looking west along the Pedestrian Walkway]]

====SECU: the SEC Academic Initiative====
The University of Tennessee is a member of the SEC Academic Consortium, now called the SECU, a collaborative endeavor designed to promote research, scholarship and achievement amongst the member universities in the Southeastern Conference.<ref>{{cite web |title=SECU |url=http://www.secsymposium.com/secu.php |publisher=SEC |access-date=February 13, 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130124074319/http://www.secsymposium.com/secu.php |archive-date=January 24, 2013 |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=SECU: The Academic Initiative of the SEC |url=http://www.secdigitalnetwork.com/AcademicConsortium |publisher=SEC Digital Network |access-date=February 13, 2013 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120721055557/http://www.secdigitalnetwork.com/AcademicConsortium |archive-date=July 21, 2012}}</ref>

====Howard H. Baker Jr. Center for Public Policy====
The Howard H. Baker, Jr. Center for Public Policy regularly holds events relative to the center's three major areas of focus which are Energy & Environment, Global Security, and Leadership & Government. According to the center's website, its missions is "to provide policy makers, citizens, scholars and students with the information and skills necessary to work effectively within our political system and to educate our local, state, national and global communities". Starting in 2015 The Institute for Nuclear Security has been publishing the ''International Journal of Nuclear Security'' that aims to share and promote research and best practices in all areas of nuclear security. It provides an open-access, multi-disciplinary forum for scholarship and discussion. The journal encourages diversity in theoretical foundations, research methods, and approaches, asking contributors to analyze and include implications for policy and practice.<ref>{{cite web |title=About This Journal {{!}} International Journal of Nuclear Security - Every link must hold. {{!}} University of Tennessee, Knoxville |url=https://trace.tennessee.edu/ijns/about.html |website=trace.tennessee.edu |access-date=April 12, 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190330160247/https://trace.tennessee.edu/ijns/about.html |archive-date=March 30, 2019 |url-status=live }}</ref>

'''Tennesseans and War Oral History Project'''

From August 29, 1984, to November 22, 2011, the University of Tennessee conducted the Tennesseans and War Oral History Project. The purpose of the project was to "uniquely capture the experiences and memories of veterans, including their lives before combat, motivations to enlist, personal experiences during the war, and their experiences readjusting to civilian life after".<ref name=":0">{{Cite web |date=2022-10-14 |title=World War II Records {{!}} Tennesseans and War |url=https://cstw.utk.edu/cstw-world-war-ii-records/ |access-date=2023-04-29 |language=en-US}}</ref>

====Other activities====
In 2013, the University of Tennessee participated in the SEC Symposium in Atlanta which was organized and led by the [[Organization:University of Georgia|University of Georgia]] and the [[Organization:University of Georgia#Bioenergy Systems Research Institute|UGA Bioenergy Systems Research Institute]]. The topic of the Symposium was titled, the "Impact of the Southeast in the World's Renewable Energy Future."<ref>{{cite news |title=SEC Symposium to address role of Southeast in renewable energy |newspaper=Uga Today |url=http://news.uga.edu/releases/article/sec-symposium-to-address-role-of-southeast-in-renewable-energy/ |publisher=University of Georgia |access-date=February 13, 2013 |date=February 6, 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130212211032/http://news.uga.edu/releases/article/sec-symposium-to-address-role-of-southeast-in-renewable-energy/ |archive-date=February 12, 2013 |url-status=live |last1=Hastings |first1=Terry }}</ref>

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===Agricultural Campus===
Through 21 departments, the Ag campus offers 11 undergraduate majors, 13 undergrad minors, 14 graduate programs, and veterinary medicine majors. The ag campus supports academics, research and community outreach.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://utia.tennessee.edu/|title=Institute of Agriculture {{!}} UTIA |website=utia.tennessee.edu|language=en-US|access-date=March 15, 2020}}</ref> The [[Organization:University of Tennessee Anthropological Research Facility|University of Tennessee Anthropological Research Facility]], nicknamed the "Body Farm", is located near the University of Tennessee Medical Center on Alcoa Highway (US 129). Founded by William M. Bass in 1972, the Body Farm endeavors to increase anthropological and forensic knowledge specifically related to the decomposition of the human body and is one of the leading centers for such research in the United States.<ref name="bassinterview">{{cite web |url=http://www.harpercollins.com/author/AuthorExtra.aspx?displayType=interview&authorID=28652 |title=Author Interview with Jefferson Bass |work=HarperCollins.com |access-date=March 7, 2008 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080129143755/http://www.harpercollins.com/author/authorExtra.aspx?authorID=28652&displayType=interview |archive-date=January 29, 2008 |url-status=live }}</ref>

===Cherokee Research Campus===
On March 16, 2009, the university broke ground on a {{convert|188|acre|adj=on}} campus in downtown Knoxville that will be devoted to [[Engineering:Nanotechnology|nanotechnology]], neutron science, [[Physics:Materials science|materials science]], energy, climate studies, [[Environmental science|environmental science]], and biomedical science.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.tennessee.edu/system/cherokee/factsheet/index.shtml |title=Tennessee.edu |publisher=Tennessee.edu |access-date=May 11, 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120512052112/http://www.tennessee.edu/system/cherokee/factsheet/index.shtml |archive-date=May 12, 2012 |url-status=live }}</ref>

===Campus master plan===
[[File:College-exterior.jpg|thumb|UT College of Law]]

The university has implemented a 25-year (2001–2026) campus master plan that will facilitate a sweeping overhaul of campus design.<ref name="masterplan">{{cite web |url=http://www.pp.utk.edu/masterplan.htm |title=Facilities Master Plan |publisher=University of Tennessee |access-date=April 13, 2009 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090514002912/http://www.pp.utk.edu/masterplan.htm |archive-date=May 14, 2009 |url-status=dead}}</ref> The plan is designed to make the campus more pedestrian-friendly by establishing large areas of open green space and relegating parking facilities to the periphery of the campus, and to increase the aesthetic appeal of the school by establishing uniform building design codes and by physically remodeling, restoring, and expanding existing academic, athletic, and housing facilities. Centrally located, iconic Ayres Hall underwent a massive upgrade as part of Phase 1 of the project, with work completed in 2011.<ref name="masterplan"/>
[[File:UT-McClungPlaza.jpg|thumb|View of Europa and the Bull at McClung Plaza]]

===Space Institute===
The University of Tennessee Space Institute, located in Tullahoma, TN, is an extension of the Knoxville campus supporting research and graduate studies in aerospace engineering and related fields. The Space Institute is home to various supersonic wind tunnels used by the Department of Mechanical, Aerospace, and Biomedical Engineering. This includes Mach 2, Mach 2.3, and Mach 4 facilities. A Mach 7 wind tunnel is also being constructed to support [[Physics:Hypersonic|hypersonic]] flight research at the University of Tennessee. The Space Institute is also home to the Center of [[Physics:Laser|Laser]] Applications (CLA), a state center of excellence.

==Student life==

===Student body===

{| class="wikitable floatright sortable collapsible"; text-align:right; font-size:80%;"
|+ style="font-size:90%" |Student body composition as of Fall 2023.
|-
! Race and ethnicity<ref>{{cite web |title=College Scorecard: University of Tennessee-Knoxville|url=https://collegescorecard.ed.gov/school/?221759-The-University-of-Tennessee-Knoxville |publisher=United States Department of Education |access-date=May 8, 2022}}</ref>
! colspan="2" data-sort-type=number |Total
|-
| [[Social:Non-Hispanic whites|White]]
|align=right| {{bartable|76.7|%|2||background:gray}}
|-
| Black
|align=right| {{bartable|4.2|%|2||background:mediumblue}}
|-
| Hispanic
|align=right| {{bartable|5.9|%|2||background:green}}
|-
| Other{{efn|Other consists of Multiracial Americans & those who prefer to not say.}}
|align=right| {{bartable|5.9|%|2||background:brown}}
|-
| Asian
|align=right| {{bartable|3.5|%|2||background:purple}}
|-
| Foreign national
|align=right| {{bartable|3.6|%|2||background:orange}}
|-
! colspan="4" data-sort-type=number |[[Social:Economic diversity|Economic diversity]]
|-
| Low-income{{efn|The percentage of students who received an income-based federal Pell grant intended for low-income students.}}
|align=right| {{bartable|24|%|2||background:red}}
|-
| Affluent{{efn|The percentage of students who are a part of the American middle class at the bare minimum.}}
|align=right| {{bartable|76|%|2||background:black}}
|}

In Fall 2023, the university enrolled 28,883 undergraduate and 7,421 graduate and professional students; 54.6% of students are female, 45.4% are male.<ref name="quickfacts"/> UT hosts students from all 50 U.S. states and over 90 foreign countries. 22,922 students come from Tennessee, and the next three most popular U.S. states are Georgia, Virginia, and North Carolina. The top three home countries of international students are {{wipe|China}}, {{wipe|India}}, and Bangladesh.<ref>{{cite web |title=Top 10 Enrollment Feeders |url=https://oira.utk.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/66/2019/10/Top-10-Enrollment-Feeders-By-Tennessee-County_State_and-Cozuntry.pdf |access-date=September 13, 2022 }}</ref>

===Activities===
;International House : The International House is a popular gathering place for visiting international students and delegations and University of Tennessee students who have previously or are currently interested in studying abroad through the Programs Abroad Office. A full kitchen, meeting rooms, and a library provide support for frequent cultural events ranging from salsa dance lessons and nation-themed culture nights to Peace Corps interest meetings.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://web.utk.edu/~ihouse/about/ |title=International House |publisher=University of Tennessee - Knoxville |access-date=March 1, 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121204063350/http://web.utk.edu/~ihouse/about/ |archive-date=December 4, 2012 |url-status=live }}</ref>

;Black Cultural Center : The Frieson Black Cultural Center, or BCC, houses the Office of Minority Student Affairs and offers a student computer lab, free Spanish tutoring, and a textbook loan service for economically disadvantaged students. There is a small but well-stocked library featuring numerous works examining religious and minority issues, and the facility offers free use of its meeting rooms to campus organizations and their affiliates.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://multicultural.utk.edu/msl_bcc.php |title=Black Cultural Center |publisher=University of Tennessee - Knoxville |access-date=March 1, 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130301040125/http://multicultural.utk.edu/msl_bcc.php |archive-date=March 1, 2013 |url-status=dead}}</ref>

;Pride Center : Located in the new Student Union, the Pride Center opened in 2010. It aims to create a shared space for the LGBT community at the university. In 2016 Tennessee State Legislature called for an investigation into the Pride Center because of the way faculty used pronouns, resulting in the Pride Center losing its official status and center director Donna Braquet being fired from her position, though she remains a professor at the university. The center regained its official status in 2019.<ref>{{cite news |last=Szymanowska |first=Gabriela |date=January 20, 2021 |title=Looking back at the history of the Pride Center |url=https://www.utdailybeacon.com/campus_news/student_oranizations/looking-back-at-the-history-of-the-pride-center/article_e95f58ee-e472-11e9-a1da-13c8e3aa6eec.html |work=UT Daily Beacon |access-date=August 28, 2021}}</ref>

;Campus Events Board : The Campus Events Board (CEB) is a student organization with nearly two hundred members that runs the majority of campus events, activities, and programs for the student body. CEB hosts around a hundred events per year and is consistently ranked as one of the best collegiate programming organizations in the nation. Examples include, lectures, concerts, raves, movies, art exhibitions, and dance performances. CEB also runs Culture Week.

===Organizations===
The University of Tennessee has over 450 registered student organizations. These groups cater to a variety of interests and provide options for those interested in service, sports, arts, social activities, government, politics, cultural issues, and Greek societies.<ref name="UTKSORP">{{cite web |url=http://go.utk.edu |title=Student Organizations Resource Page |work=UTK.edu |access-date=September 21, 2009 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090921001504/http://go.utk.edu/ |archive-date=September 21, 2009 |url-status=live }}</ref>

The university operates two radio stations: student-run The Rock (formerly the Torch)<ref name="WUTK">{{cite web |url=http://www.wutkradio.com/index.php |title=90.3 The Rock |work=WUTKradio.com |access-date=November 23, 2005 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20051214003520/http://www.wutkradio.com/index.php |archive-date=December 14, 2005 |url-status=dead}}</ref> (WUTK-FM 90.3 [[Megahertz|MHz]]) and National Public Radio [[Engineering:Network affiliate|affiliate]] WUOT-FM 91.9&nbsp;MHz. The university's first radio station was on the AM frequency 850&nbsp;kHz, a donation from Knoxville radio station WIVK-AM/FM. ''The Phoenix'', a literary art magazine, is published in the fall and spring [[Social:Academic term|semesters]] and showcases student artistic creativity.

;The Volunteer Channel
The Volunteer Channel (TVC) is the university's student run television station. TVC reaches nearly 7,000 UT students in residence halls and 100,000 residents in surrounding counties on Comcast Digital Channel 194.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.volchannel.com/cgi-sys/suspendedpage.cgi|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141129020620/http://www.volchannel.com/|url-status=dead|title=The Volunteer Channel|archive-date=November 29, 2014|website=www.volchannel.com}}</ref>

===The Daily Beacon===
''The Daily Beacon'' is the editorially independent student newspaper of UT's campus. It began in 1906 as ''The Orange & White'' and became a staple on the campus landscape, publishing for 61 years. ''The Daily Beacon'' was established as its successor in 1965, taking over in spring 1967. It printed 10,000 daily copies weekly, one of the few daily collegiate newspapers in the United States, prior to moving predominantly online.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.utdailybeacon.com/ |title=utdailybeacon.com - The editorially independent student newspaper at the University of Tennessee, since 1906. |website=The Daily Beacon |access-date=October 5, 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150507123019/http://utdailybeacon.com/ |archive-date=May 7, 2015 |url-status=live }}</ref> It now distributes 2,100 copies per week, releasing on Wednesdays, and produces daily online content about the campus and the surrounding area.<ref>{{cite web|title=About Us|url=https://www.utdailybeacon.com/site/about.html|website=UTDailyBeacon.com|access-date=May 4, 2022}}</ref>

===Greek institutions===
The University of Tennessee hosts roughly 20 sororities and 30 fraternities. Approximately 20% of undergraduate men and 30% of undergraduate women are active in Greek organizations.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.usnews.com/best-colleges/university-of-tennessee-3530/student-life |title=University of Tennessee, Knoxville Student Life|website=usnews.com|access-date=13 August 2023}}</ref>
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==Athletics==
[[File:Neyland Stadium 2010.JPG|thumb|Neyland Stadium]]
[[File:UT Volunteers logo.svg|100px|thumb|left|UT athletics logo]]

Tennessee competes in the Southeastern Conference's (SEC) Eastern Division, along with Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, Missouri, South Carolina, and Vanderbilt. The only UT team that does not compete in the SEC is the women's rowing program, which competes as a single-sport member of the Big 12 Conference.

The Tennessee Lady Volunteers basketball team has won eight NCAA Division I titles (1987, 1989, 1991, 1996, 1997, 1998, 2007, 2008); only Connecticut, with eleven titles, has more championships. They are currently led by Kellie Harper. She succeeded Holly Warlick, who succeeded Pat Summitt, the all-time winningest basketball coach in NCAA history. Summitt's 1,000th victory occurred on February 5, 2009, and she boasts a 100 percent graduation rate for all players who finish their career at UT. Women's basketball rivals for Tennessee within the conference include Georgia, Vanderbilt, and LSU.

In August 2014, University of Tennessee students were given the opportunity to vote for a name for the Neyland Stadium student section. The name "Rocky Top Rowdies" was selected over "General's Quarters", "Smokey's Howl", "Vol Army", and "Big Orange Crew."<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.wbir.com/story/news/home/2014/09/01/student-section-named-rocky-top-rowdies/14920361/ |archive-url=https://archive.today/20140918183443/http://www.wbir.com/story/news/home/2014/09/01/student-section-named-rocky-top-rowdies/14920361/ |url-status=dead |archive-date=September 18, 2014 |title=Student section named 'Rocky Top Rowdies' |publisher=WBIR.com |access-date=September 16, 2014}}</ref>

On November 10, 2014, as part of a university-wide branding overhaul, the UT athletic department announced that starting with the 2015–16 school year, all UT women's teams except for basketball would drop "Lady" from their nickname and become simply "Volunteers". The rebranding will coincide with UT's switch from Adidas to [[Company:Nike, Inc.|Nike]] as its uniform supplier.<ref>{{cite press release |url=http://www.utsports.com/genrel/111014aab.html |title=One Tennessee: Branding Restructure |publisher=University of Tennessee Athletics |date=November 10, 2014 |access-date=November 11, 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141112004644/http://www.utsports.com/genrel/111014aab.html |archive-date=November 12, 2014 |url-status=live }}</ref>

===Club sports===
The university also offers a number of recreational sports, many offering intercollegiate play. Sports include lacrosse, rugby, soccer, wrestling, hockey, running, crew, golf, ballroom dance, and paintball.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://recsports.utk.edu/Programs/Sport%20Clubs/Clubs/index.php |title=UT Knoxville &#124; RecSports |publisher=Recsports.utk.edu |access-date=May 11, 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120620153228/http://recsports.utk.edu/Programs/Sport%20Clubs/Clubs/index.php |archive-date=June 20, 2012 |url-status=dead}}</ref> Teams often join intercollegiate conferences, such as the South Eastern Collegiate Hockey Conference, or play Southeastern Conference and in other rivals on a regular basis.

===Colors===
Charles Moore, president of the university's athletic association, chose orange and white for the school colors on April 12, 1889. His inspiration is said to have come from orange and white [[Biology:Asteraceae|daisies]] which grew on the Hill. To this day there are still orange and white flowers grown outside the University Center. Although students confirmed the colors at a special meeting in 1892, dissatisfaction caused the colors to be dropped. No other acceptable colors could be agreed on, however, and the original colors were reinstated a day later. The University of Tennessee's official colors are [[Shades of orange#UT orange|UT Orange]] (Pantone 151), White, and Smokey Gray (Pantone 426).<ref name="officialcolors">{{cite web |url=http://communications.utk.edu/branding/palette.php |title=Our Primary Color |work=UTK.edu |publisher=UTK Office of Communications & Marketing |access-date=September 12, 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130912174502/http://communications.utk.edu/branding/palette.php |archive-date=September 12, 2013 |url-status=live }}</ref>

===Pride of the Southland Band===
[[File:UCLA@UTopen.ogv|thumb|Five-minute video of the open of a football game]]
The Pride of the Southland Band (or simply The Pride) is UT's marching band. As one of the oldest institutions at the university, the band partakes in many of the gameday traditions. At every home game, the Pride performs the "March to the Stadium" which includes a parade sequence and climaxes when the band stops at the bottom of The Hill and performs the "Salute to the Hill", an homage to the history and legacy of the university. The band is known for its pregame show at the beginning of every home game, which ends with the football team running onto the field through the "Opening of the T".

===Mascot===

===Nickname===
Tennessee is known as the "Volunteer State" for the large number of Tennesseans who volunteered for duty in the War of 1812, the Mexican–American War, and the American Civil War. A UT athletic team was dubbed the Volunteers for the first time in 1902 by the ''Atlanta Constitution'' following a football game against the Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets, although the ''Knoxville Journal and Tribune'' did not use the name until 1905. By the fall of 1905 both the ''Journal'' and the then-''Sentinel'' were using the nickname.<ref name="trad-volunteer">{{cite web |url=http://www.utk.edu/news/traditions.shtml#volunteer |title=University of Tennessee Traditions: Volunteer Nickname |work=UTK.edu |access-date=August 2, 2007 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060906002114/http://www.utk.edu/news/traditions.shtml#volunteer |archive-date=September 6, 2006 |url-status=dead}}</ref>

===The Rock===
Unearthed in the 1960s, the Rock probably soon thereafter became a "canvas" for student messages. For years the university sandblasted away the messages but eventually deferred to students' artistic endeavors. ''The Daily Beacon'' has editorialized: "Originally a smaller rock, the Rock has grown in prestige and size while thousands of coats of paint have been thrown on its jagged face. Really, its function is as an open forum for students."<ref name="trad-rock">{{cite web |url=http://www.utk.edu/news/traditions.shtml#rock |title=University of Tennessee Traditions: The Rock |work=UTK.edu |access-date=June 13, 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110716064236/http://www.utk.edu/news/traditions.shtml#rock |archive-date=July 16, 2011 |url-status=dead}}</ref>

== Notable people ==

<gallery class="center" classes="center" mode="nolines">
File:Peyton Manning (51665689271).jpg|Peyton Manning, Hall of Fame NFL quarterback
File:Dixie Carter 1977.JPG|Dixie Carter, actress
File:Candace Parker (cropped).jpg|Candace Parker, professional women's basketball player
File:Lamar Alexander official photo.jpg|Lamar Alexander, former US Senator
File:Scott J. Kelly.jpg|Scott Kelly, astronaut
File:Paul Finebaum - June 2018.jpg|Paul Finebaum, sports author and television and radio personality
File:Joe Tessitore, Jason Witten, Booger McFarland - 2018 SEC Summerfest 3 (cropped).jpg|Jason Witten, NFL tight end
File:Bob Corker official Senate photo (cropped).jpg|Bob Corker, former U.S. Senator
File:Arian Foster (cropped).jpg|Arian Foster, NFL running back
File:Kurt Vonnegut 1972.jpg|[[Biography:Kurt Vonnegut|Kurt Vonnegut]], author
File:Jim Justice in November 2021.jpg|[[Biography:Jim Justice|Jim Justice]], Governor of West Virginia
File:Heath Shuler, official 110th Congressional photo portrait.jpg|Heath Shuler, former NFL quarterback and U.S. Congressman 
File:Todd Helton on August 18, 2013.jpg|Todd Helton, MLB first baseman
File:Allen West, Official Portrait, 112th Congress.jpg|Allen West, former Chair of the Texas Republican Party and former US Congressman
File:Alvin Kamara (cropped).jpg|Alvin Kamara, NFL running back
File:Gene Wojciechowski 2010.jpg|Gene Wojciechowski, sportswriter for ESPN
File:Governor Bill Haslam crop.jpg|Bill Haslam, 49th Governor of Tennessee
</gallery>

==See also==
*East Tennessee Female Institute
*East Tennessee Historical Society
*''University of Tennessee Press''

==Notes==
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==References==
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