•The University of Tennessee at Martin was founded in 1900 as Hall-Moody Institute.
•Almost 8,000 students are enrolled for the 2011 fall semester. The fall 2011 total includes increases in the fall enrollments for incoming freshmen and returning undergraduate students. The university has also experienced an increase in full-time equivalent enrollment on the main campus and in online undergraduate enrollment.
•UT Martin is home to UT Online, the University of Tennessee’s online programs for both undergraduate and graduate degrees.
•UT Martin and Hirosaki University entered into a formal university relationship in 1980 that continues today. Now, UT Martin has agreements with 17 university education groups in eight countries.
•After recent completion of more than $7 million in capital and maintenance projects, almost $30 million in additional capital improvement projects are under way or set to begin at UT Martin, including projects through 2012. Among new projects, the Fine Arts Building is being renovated and more than 52,000 square feet of new construction added to the facility at a cost of $14 million.
•UT Martin is listed as a top-tier university among southern, master's level institutions in the 2012 edition of America's Best Colleges compiled by U.S.News & World Report.
•The Princeton Review lists UT Martin as “A Best Southeastern College" for 2012.
•For the sixth consecutive year, Institutional Research & Evaluation Inc. lists UT Martin among “America’s 100 Best College Buys.”
•The Carnegie Foundation has selected UT Martin for the 2010 Community Engagement Classification. The university is one of 115 institutions added to the Community Engagement Classification, bringing the national total to 311 colleges and universities.
•UT Martin is among the safest public college campuses in Tennessee based on crime statistics released by the Tennessee Bureau of Investigation.
•UT Martin’s official website was ranked sixth out of 47 Tennessee colleges and universities in the 2011 4 International Colleges and Universities website popularity ranking.
•More than 95% of UT Martin’s graduates find jobs or are accepted to graduate schools within six months of graduation.
•UT Martin is home to two Tennessee Governor’s Schools: the Tennessee Governor’s School for the Humanities and the Tennessee Governor’s School for the Agricultural Sciences.
•UT Martin is home to three chairs of excellence: the Gil Parker Chair of Excellence in the College of Agriculture and Applied Sciences and the Horace and Sara Dunagan Chair of Excellence in Banking and the Tom E. Hendrix Chair of Excellence in Free Enterprise, both in the College of Business and Global Affairs.
•UT Martin offers a meteorology concentration, the first program of its kind in Tennessee.
•UT Martin offers the only dance-education teaching option in Tennessee.
•UT Martin serves as the executive center of the Southern Consortium of the American Democracy Project (ADP-South).
•More than 600 students participate annually in internship, clinical and educational placements in business, hospital, school, government and non-profit settings.
•UT Martin’s general engineering program was recently reaccredited by the Engineering Accreditation Commission (EAC) of the Accreditation Board for Engineering and Technology (ABET), Inc. The program, housed in the College of Engineering and Natural Sciences, was originally accredited in 1999 and has educated more than 300 successful engineers since then.
•The UT Martin Student Members of the American Chemical Society chapter leads the nation for the number of outstanding ratings (30) and Green Chapter designations (10).
•The UT Martin Collegiate FFA chapter was named top collegiate chapter in the state for the seventh consecutive year at the 2011 Tennessee FFA Alumni State Convention.
•WUTM-FM was named 2010 “Best College Radio Station in the South” during the 2011 Southeast Journalism Conference at Troy University. Also, WUTM earned a “Platinum” rating by the Intercollegiate Broadcasting System (IBS), a 70-year-old national organization of more than 1,000 college and university radio stations. Platinum is the highest ranking a member radio station can achieve each year.
•UT Martin’s Tennessee Intercollegiate State Legislature delegation was voted “Best House Delegation” in November 2010 at the 41st General Assembly of the group in Nashville. Approximately 200 students represented 37 Tennessee colleges and universities at the event.
•UT Martin Recycles! was one of 14 winners statewide recognized for their achievements and positive impact on the state’s natural resources in the 2011 Governor’s Environmental Stewardship Awards.
•UT Martin has center locations in Jackson, Parsons, Ripley and Selmer. The Jackson Center relocated to a new facility in fall 2011.
•UT Online continues to answer the demand for online courses and degree programs, including an online master’s degree in family and consumer sciences; an online concentration in education (teaching/non-licensure); an online bachelor’s of business administration in management; and an online bachelor’s degree in agricultural business.
•UT Martin is home to the WestStar Leadership Program, Tennessee’s first and largest regional leadership program. WestStar boasts 617 graduates and is in its 23rd year of developing the region’s leaders.
•UT Martin has more than a $140 million annual impact in the state of Tennessee and supports nearly 4,000 jobs in the region.
•The university’s Regional Entrepreneurship and Economic Development (REED) Center provides consulting services for existing and prospective entrepreneurs and supports economic development in rural Northwest Tennessee.
•UT Martin is a member of the National Collegiate Athletic Association’s (NCAA) Division I and the Ohio Valley Conference.
•The Skyhawk soccer team claimed its first-ever share of a regular-season Ohio Valley Conference championship in fall 2009.
•The Skyhawk softball team claimed its first Ohio Valley Conference tournament championship in 2009 and made its first-ever appearance in the NCAA softball tournament. The team earned its first regular-season OVC championship in spring 2010, and head coach Donley Canary was named 2010 OVC Coach of the Year.
•The Skyhawk football team claimed its first Sgt. York Trophy as the Skyhawks finished the 2010 season 3-0 in games between the four OVC schools located in Tennessee.
•The Skyhawk women’s basketball team earned its first Ohio Valley Conference tournament championship in 2011 and first-ever trip to the NCAA women’s basketball tournament.
•The UT Martin rodeo team, the only collegiate rodeo team in Tennessee, is a member of the National Intercollegiate Rodeo Association. Recent successes include Jeff Askey’s winning the bull-riding national championship in 2010, the women’s rodeo team capturing the Ozark Region title in spring 2011, and the men’s team finishing second in the region. Both teams advanced in June 2011 to the College National Finals Rodeo.
•Twenty-six UT Martin students, faculty and staff members have received Love Community Service Awards. The Tennessee Higher Education Commission sponsors the community service recognition program.
•Dr. Tracy Rutledge, assistant professor of communications, was awarded first place in the 2011 Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication Annual Best Practices in Teaching Competition.
•Dr. Lionel Crews, associate professor of physics, received the Ptero Award from the Tennessee Earth Science Teachers for his contributions to the teaching of earth science in Tennessee.
•Dr. Janet Wilbert, assistant professor of health and human performance and athletic training coordinator, received the Jerry Robertson Educator Award from the Tennessee Athletic Trainers’ Society (TATS).
•Dr. Stephanie Kolitsch, UT Martin STEM Center director, is chair-elect of the Tennessee Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) Education Leadership Council for 2011-12, assuming the chair position in 2013-14.
•Dr. Becky Cox, assistant professor of educational studies, was 2009 Tennessee Higher Education Science Teacher of the Year and also received the 2010 Distinguished Educator Award - Higher Education Faculty Member from the Tennessee Education Association.
•Tomi Parrish, instructor of communications and adviser to both The Pacer student newspaper and The Spirit magazine, was named president of the Southeast Journalism Conference for 2012, when the event will be hosted on the UT Martin campus.
•Nationally known alumni include: Pat Head Summitt (’74), UT Lady Vols head basketball coach; Leonard Hamilton (’71), Florida State Seminoles head basketball coach; Dr. Shirley Raines (’67), University of Memphis president; Jerry Reese (’87, ’88), senior vice president and general manager of the New York Giants; and William (Bill) Rhodes (’87), president and CEO of AutoZone. |
