Linda Starnes
By Accolades Staff
Linda Starnes (’82) has been actively involved in the disability community as a special educator, parent, and volunteer. As a … Continue reading
Alumni
Rebecca Amis
By Accolades Staff
Our Alumni: Rebecca Amis of the MUSE School in Calabasa, California Continue reading
A Teaching Metamorphosis
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Students benefit from the college’s unique five-year teacher intern program as well as the financial gifts from donors that have made it possible. Continue reading
Pat Summitt (1952–2016)
By Cassandra Sproles
Lady Vols Head Coach Emeritus Pat Summitt passed away at age 64 on June 28, 2016, after a battle with … Continue reading
70 Years Later
By Accolades Staff
Alma Mount Abernathy graduated from UT in 1942 with a degree in home economics. Now 96, Alma was surprised this summer by her daughters and grandson with a trip to Rocky Top. Continue reading
Norm Witek
By Accolades Staff
Norm Witek (’68 & ’69) is a retired from Brevard College as a professor and cross country coach. And he is the only nonprofessional athlete
to have an athletic shoe named after him by a major shoe company. Continue reading
A Musical Life
By Cassandra Sproles
Get to know Dove Award-winning artist Ellie Holcomb Continue reading
Educators Hall of Honor 2015
By Accolades Staff
Renowned poet and Knoxville native Nikki Giovanni and six other educators who have significantly influenced students’ lives were inducted into the UT Educators Hall of … Continue reading
Out of the Debris
By Angie Vicars
When a roof collapse at Jefferson County High School in July 2013 destroyed the drama department, Billie Yardley (BS ’77, MS ’82) was determined to
continue teaching her students about using their creativity. Her challenge then became how to tap into her own. Continue reading
More than Math
By Angie Vicars
When the state of Tennessee named Knox County AP calculus teacher Wanda Lacy as 2013–2014 Teacher of the Year, officials … Continue reading