Department of Educational Leadership and Policy Studies

The University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Postsecondary Education Research Center (PERC), in partnership with the Penn State University’s Timothy J.Piazza Center for Fraternity and Sorority Research and Reform and the Association of Fraternity and Sorority Advisors…

The College of Education, Health, and Human Sciences is proud of our faculty, staff and students. Several were named as recipients at the 2021 Chancellor’s Honors banquet. — Excellence in…

Three current faculty members from the College of Education, Health, and Human Sciences were named among the world’s top 2 percent of scientists according to research citations, based on a…

Written by Brian Canever Cody Neighbors, a fourth-year student in the Deaf Studies program at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, sensed it the moment he walked onto the silent second…

Like you, all of us in the College of Education, Health, and Human Sciences (CEHHS) are continuously making adjustments as we manage all of the rapid changes that the COVID-19…

Written by Whitney Heins Many children want to be an astronaut when they grow up. Or a professional basketball player. Or a famous singer. Not Ellen McIntyre. Growing up in…

Bob Rider served as dean of the College of Education, Health, and Human Sciences from 2004 to 2019. Prior to coming to Knoxville, he served as dean of the College…

The National Rural Education Association (NREA) has recognized the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Center for Educational Leadership with the 2018 NREA Exemplary Practices Award for its Administrators Planning Innovation for Rural Education (AsPIRE) rural…

The Department of Educational Leadership and Policy Studies offers a PhD in higher education administration to help professionals who aspire to enhance their leadership knowledge and skills and learn more about policy for service in administrative, faculty, and policy roles. Take a look at how three graduates say the program helped them.

Jimmy Cheek stepped down from his role as chancellor of the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, in 2016. Since that time, he has returned to the faculty to teach classes on leadership and help launch the Postsecondary Education Research Center.