Education

A leader in the arts and a benefactor to the School of Music, Haslam has committed undetermined amounts of time and talent to the betterment of the university. Haslam currently …

Bernadotte Schmitt (1904) was a professor of history at Western Reserve University and the University of Chicago. He won the Pulitzer Prize for The Coming of the War: 1914. He …

William E. Derryberry (1928) was president of Tennessee Technological University in Cookeville, Tennessee, from 1940 to 1974.

James Zwingle (1929, 1932) was president of Park College (Missouri) from 1947 to 1955. He later was a vice president at Cornell University and president of the Association of Governing …

Seymour Allen Mynders (1880) was the first president of West Tennessee State Normal College (University of Memphis).

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 …

David Bancroft Johnson earned degrees from UT in Knoxville in 1877 and 1880. He founded Winthrop University (South Carolina) and was president of the National Education Association from 1915 to …

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.

Burgin Estel Dossett (1922) was president of East Tennessee State University from 1949 to 1968.