University President

In 2011, UT Knoxville will begin a yearlong celebration honoring the first African-American undergraduate students and the rich legacy of African-American achievement campus-wide.

UT Institute of Agriculture Chancellor Joe DiPietro will begin his post as president of the University of Tennessee in January 2011.

Edward C. Merrill Jr. (1948) was the fourth president of Gallaudet University. He served from 1969 to 1983. Merrill was dean of the UT College of Education at Knoxville from …

Thomas W. Humes became president of East Tennessee University in 1865. During his term, in 1879, the legislature changed the institution’s name to the University of Tennessee. He resigned the …

James D. Hoskins was UT’s 14th president. He earned UT degrees in 1891, 1893, and 1897.

Cleveland Leon Dennard (1964) was president of Atlanta University from 1977 to 1983, and president of the Technological Institute of Washington from 1976 to 1977. He was chief operating officer …

William D. Carnes, an 1842 graduate of East Tennessee University (UT’s predecessor), was UT president from 1858 to 1860.

Charles E. Smith (1961) was chancellor of the Tennessee Board of Regents and Tennessee commissioner of education. From 1980 to 1985 he served as Chancellor of the University of Tennessee …

Arliss Lloyd Roaden (1958, 1961) was president of Tennessee Technological University from 1974 to 1985. He also was executive director of the Tennessee Higher Education Commission.