Maryville is a city in and the county seat of Blount County,Tennessee. Its population was 31,907 at the 2020 census.
Knoxville is a city in and the county seat of Knox County,Tennessee,United States. As of the 2020 United States census,Knoxville's population was 190,740,making it the largest city in the East Tennessee Grand Division and the state's third-most-populous city after Nashville and Memphis. It is the principal city of the Knoxville metropolitan area,which had a population of 879,773 in 2020.
Rhodes College is a private liberal arts college in Memphis,Tennessee. Historically affiliated with the Presbyterian Church (USA),it is a member of the Associated Colleges of the South and is accredited by the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools. Rhodes enrolls about 2,000 students,and its Collegiate Gothic campus sits on a 123-acre wooded site in Memphis' historic Midtown neighborhood.
The University of Tennessee at Martin is a public university in Martin,Tennessee. It is one of the five campuses of the University of Tennessee system. UTM is the only public university in West Tennessee outside of Memphis.
Maryville College is a private liberal arts college in Maryville,Tennessee. It was founded in 1819 by Presbyterian minister Isaac L. Anderson for the purpose of furthering education and enlightenment into the West. The college is one of the 50 oldest colleges in the United States and the 12th-oldest institution in the South. It is associated with the Presbyterian Church (USA) and enrolls about 1,100 students. Its mascot is the Scots,and sports teams compete in NCAA Division III athletics in the Collegiate Conference of the South.
Knoxville College is an unaccredited private historically black college in Knoxville,Tennessee,United States. It was founded in 1875 by the United Presbyterian Church of North America. The college is a United Negro College Fund member school.
The University of Tennessee Southern is a public college in Pulaski,Tennessee. Founded in 1870,for over 150 years it was a private institution until joining the University of Tennessee system in 2021. For many years it was a junior college but is now a baccalaureate institution providing more than thirty academic majors. The college also has an MBA program.
The University of Tennessee System is a system of public universities in the U.S. state of Tennessee. It is one of two public university systems,the other being the Tennessee Board of Regents (TBR). It consists of four primary campuses in Knoxville,Chattanooga,Pulaski and Martin;a health sciences campus in Memphis;a research institute in Tullahoma;and various extensions throughout the state.
Hiwassee College was a private liberal arts college in Madisonville,Tennessee. Founded in 1849,the college offered associate degrees as well as bachelor's degrees. The majority of its associate degree graduates went on to complete bachelor's degrees elsewhere. The college closed on May 10,2019 due to financial issues.
Mark E. Dean is an African American inventor and computer engineer. He developed the ISA bus,and he led a design team for making a one-gigahertz computer processor chip. He holds three of nine PC patents for being the co-creator of the IBM personal computer released in 1981. In 1995,Dean was named the first ever African-American IBM Fellow.
H. Christopher Whittle is an American entrepreneur who has founded four companies in the fields of education and media,serving as the CEO of each. Whittle Communications,a 1,000-person magazine,television,and book-publishing firm,was listed by Advertising Age as one of the 100 largest U.S. media companies in the 1990s. Conceived in 1991,Edison Schools was a pioneer of the U.S. charter-school movement,launching over 100 schools which enrolled 60,000 full-time students. Launched in 2012,Avenues:The World School has become one of New York City's ten largest private schools. Whittle School &Studios,a global system of private schools,was launched in 2015 and has campuses in Shenzhen and Suzhou,China. In addition to founding the above,in the early 1980s,Whittle acquired Esquire,where he served as its chairman and publisher.
Sanford J. "Sandy" Ungar is an American journalist,author,and the inaugural director of the Free Speech Project at Georgetown University. He was the tenth president of Goucher College and the 24th director of Voice of America.
Doug Overbey is an American lawyer and former politician who served as the United States Attorney for the Eastern District of Tennessee from 2017 to 2021. Prior to becoming the U.S. Attorney,he represented District 2 in the Tennessee Senate as a Republican from 2009 to 2017. Overbey was chairman of the Senate Ethics Committee and vice-chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee and the Senate Finance Committee. He is a senior partner and co-founder of the Robertson Overbey law firm and has served as an adjunct faculty member at the University of Tennessee College of Law. Prior to becoming a state senator,Overbey served in the Tennessee House of Representatives from 2000 to 2008. On February 8,2021,he along with 55 other Trump-era attorneys were asked to resign.
The 1930 Tennessee Volunteers football team represented the University of Tennessee in the 1930 college football season. Playing as a member of the Southern Conference (SoCon),the team was led by head coach Robert Neyland,in his fifth year,and played their home games at Shields–Watkins Field in Knoxville,Tennessee. The 1930 Vols won nine and lost one game. The only loss of the season came on October 18 to eventual Rose Bowl champion,Alabama. Tennessee and Vanderbilt were the only teams to score against Alabama in 1930. The 1930 Volunteers team outscored their opponents 209 to 31 and posted seven shutouts
John William Shumaker is an American educator who served as president of Central Connecticut State University,the University of Louisville,and the University of Tennessee.
The University of Tennessee,Knoxville is a public land-grant research university in Knoxville,Tennessee. Founded in 1794,two years before Tennessee became the 16th state,it is the flagship campus of the 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 classified among "R1:Doctoral Universities –Very high research activity".
Jimmy G. Cheek is Chancellor Emeritus and Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Higher Education in Department of Educational Leadership and Policy Studies at The University of Tennessee,Knoxville (UTK) and Former Director of the Postsecondary Education Research Center. He is also Professor Emeritus at the University of Florida. As the state's flagship research campus,UT Knoxville is currently ranked as a Top 50 public institution.
Gary R. Wade is a former Chief Justice of the Tennessee Supreme Court. Following retirement he was named vice president and Dean of Lincoln Memorial University's Duncan School of Law on July 28,2015,taking the position on September 9,2015.
Jay C. Hartzell is an American economist and the 30th President of the University of Texas at Austin. Additionally,he holds the Centennial Chair in Business Education Leadership and the Trammell Crow Regents Professor in Business at UT Austin.
JoséAntonio Bowen is an American author and academic. He served as the 11th president of Goucher College from 2014 to 2019.
