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| Hello, and welcome to the University of Tennessee at Martin’s Web site and Chancellor’s Corner. Please spend some time with us visiting the other links and features of the site. Get acquainted with the university, and see what we have to offer through excellent academic programs and opportunities for personal and social growth.
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UT Martin is “home” to more than 7,200 students who have the choice of more than 100 different specialties in undergraduate and graduate programs. There are majors in the natural and social sciences, humanities, fine and performing arts, computer science, nursing, agriculture, teacher education, business administration and engineering. Master’s degrees are offered in accounting and business administration, counseling and teacher education, family and consumer sciences and agriculture and natural resources systems management.
UTOnline makes earning a degree more convenient, especially for our non-traditional students. The Online Bachelor of University Studies (B.U.S.) degree, as well as online master’s degrees in education (with a major in educational administration and supervision), agriculture and natural resources systems management, community and school counseling, family and consumer sciences and a cohort MBA program, are perfect for students balancing job, family and other responsibilities.
Also extending UT Martin’s reach, is the Office of Extended Campus and Continuing Education with centers located in Jackson, Parsons, Ripley and Selmer. These teaching centers offer traditional-age and adult students college credit near home and a seamless transition to UT Martin, if they choose later to attend classes on the main campus.
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More than 700 high school students, representing nearly 40 different high schools, are enrolled each year as dual-credit students. UT Martin offers the largest dual-credit enrollment program of any public university in Tennessee. Many students are invovled in exxperiencces in one of our travel-study programs. Offered in partnerships with a number of universities around the world, these special programs help prepare our students to move easily throughout a global environment.
A host of intramural, academic, service and social clubs and organizations offer students opportunities to pursue special interests and talents.
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Enhancing our academic programs are faculty members, who engage students in rigorous studies while reflecting a sincere concern for students in their classes. The campus also provides targeted assistance for students by providing tutorial, advising and study assistance through the Student Success Center.
The Martin campus offers a technology- enhanced learning environment that includes wireless access to the Internet and a Computer Store located in Boling University Center. More than 90 percent of the entering first-year students arrive with a computer and are ready to learn in a digitally connected environment.
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UT Martin is among the most beautiful campuses in the South. Campus facilities include 63 academic and support buildings. A capital improvements project exceeding $75 million in under way. University Village, a 400-bed apartment-style complex completed in 2005 on campus, was joined by a similar $28 million complex in 2008. Other projects include upgrades to five major buildings that have been completed or are in varying stages of completion, and $14 million in combined new construction/renovation of other facilities. A new $16 million student recreation center is scheduled for completion in 2009.
Making grant presentations at the Ray and Wilma Smith Livestock Merchandising Facility expansion announcement, July 24, are, front row, Ken Givens, Tennessee Department of Agriculture commissioner, and Ruth Tackett, USDA Rural Development state director. Others attending the event are, from left, State Sen. Roy Herron, Terry Oliver, Department of Agriculture deputy commissioner; Dr. Jim Byford, College of Agriculture and Applied Sciences dean; Chancellor Rakes, Dr. Jerry Gresham, Department of Agriculture and Natural Resources chair; Bobby Goode, USDA Rural Development area director, Union City; Wilma and Ray Smith; and Brad Thompson, Congressman John Tanner’s field director. The expansion project, funded by $127,000 Tennessee Department of Agriculture and $55,000 Rural Development grants, will provide expanded exhibition and stalling areas to permit hosting larger and more diversified livestock events. |
UT Martin competes in NCAA Division I in both men’s and women’s athletics and is a member of the Ohio Valley Conference. The university’s rodeo team is the only collegiate rodeo team in Tennessee and is a member of the National Intercollegiate Rodeo Association.
Call our office of admissions at 1-800-829-UTM1, 731-881-7020, or e-mail us at admitme@utm.edu to schedule a campus tour and find out more about UT Martin. If you can’t visit in person, take our Campus Virtual Tour.
As chancellor, I welcome your comments and observations as we move toward a greater future.
Dr. Tom Rakes
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