UT System President Randy Boyd

Paving the Way for Safer Campus Communities

This week is National Hazing Prevention Week (Sept. 23–27), a time to reflect on our shared responsibility to ensure safe and respectful campus environments. This week provides an opportunity to reinforce our values, educate our communities and strengthen the culture of accountability that protects students’ well-being. The University of Tennessee System is proactively taking a … Continued

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UT System President Randy Boyd

Condensing a legacy

The process of condensing a lifetime of work into a column or tribute can indeed feel inherently unfair, as it oversimplifies the richness and complexity of a person’s existence. It abbreviates decades of a person’s experiences, achievements and impact into editorial guidelines and guardrails that seek to enact brevity into a legacy that knows no boundaries.

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UTHSC Tackling Grand Challenges of Rural Health Care

The University of Tennessee Health Science Center (UTHSC) has launched a new mobile health unit dedicated to growing the availability of rural health care across our great state, starting with Lake and Lauderdale counties. UTHSC, based in Memphis, is the largest educator of health care professionals in Tennessee. But in rural counties in Tennessee, the … Continued

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Forever Thankful for Teachers

Teachers are so much more than instructors of math, science, history, English, reading and so forth. Teachers help us learn how to think critically, problem solve, work as an individual and in a team, build confidence and become mature, responsible people.

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