Giving

Each year, faculty and staff inspire the Volunteer family through their ever-increasing participation in the Big Orange Family Campaign. The campaign’s ninth year boasts a record 65 percent of university employees who supported Rocky Top through their donations. UT regularly leads the Southeastern Conference for faculty and staff giving, and university employees continued to inspire … Read more

  For David Leventhal (’07, ’20), the coronavirus pandemic hit during an already challenging time. A nontraditional student, Leventhal returned to UT to pursue a master’s degree in secondary education and teaching during mid-life with a young child to support and a mortgage to pay. Completing his master’s degree meant spending an entire year as … Read more

The University of Tennessee, Knoxville, and Knoxville-based advertising agency Tombras have partnered to create a first-of-its-kind landmark program and investment plan to modernize and expand advertising and public relations education. Key goals for the newly named Tombras School of Advertising and Public Relations, which will be housed in UT’s College of Communication and Information, are … Read more

The University of Tennessee, Knoxville’s Haslam College of Business has announced a $3 million gift from the Boyd Foundation. The gift includes a $1 million endowment to create two distinguished professorships and $2 million to expand the existing Boyd Center for Business and Economic Research Endowment. The Boyd Center for Business and Economic Research was … Read more

Thanks to longtime University of Tennessee, Knoxville, supporter and UT Health Science Center alumnus Fred O. Stone Jr., the UT Libraries now boasts its first named position: the Dr. Fred O. Stone University Archivist. Stone’s interest in the UT Libraries, the university’s research home and archival hub, has ties dating back to the 1500s. During … Read more

The University of Tennessee, Knoxville’s Haslam College of Business has received a commitment from First Horizon Bank for a $500,000 endowment. Since the endowment supports strategic priorities for the college, it will receive one-to-one matching funds through the Haslam Matching Gift Program for a total gift of $1 million. A portion of the endowment will … Read more

Judi and Jim Herbert support undergraduate tutoring and development of workshops Make a Gift More than 50 years ago, Judi Herbert graduated from the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, with a bachelor’s degree in English. On Friday, October 11, the Writing Center, housed in UT’s College of Arts and Sciences, was dedicated in recognition of her … Read more

The concept of farm-to-table food owes itself in part to Sue Conley (’75) and Peggy Smith of Cowgirl Creamery. What others did for bread, wine, or beer; they did for cheese. Their award-winning products ignited an artisan cheesemaking movement centered on clean products straight from local farms. Since retiring in early 2021, the Cowgirls have … Read more

The University of Tennessee, Knoxville’s Haslam College of Business announced the naming of the new JTV Center for Applied Business Analytics. The center aims to assist undergraduate students in bridging the gap between a strong analytics background and the communications skills needed to convey that knowledge through real-world training. It will be housed in the … Read more

The University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Army ROTC Alumni Council is leading the effort to establish the UT Armed Forces Memorial on the university’s flagship campus in Knoxville. The memorial will honor the sacrifice of students, faculty, and staff from all UT System campuses who died in the line of duty while in military service to … Read more