Rehearsals for the second annual “Festival of Voices” begin this morning, and a concert will be held at 7 p.m. tonight in Bryan Fine Arts Building’s Wattenbarger Auditorium.The event, coordinated by assistant professor and choral director Craig Zamer, invites High Schools from across the state to participate in a collaborative […]
Month: September 2010
New military science professor juggles jobs
Being an officer in the military can be a challenge. Maintaining skills and proficiencies in Civil Engineering while being newly in charge of the Reserve Officers’ Training Corps at Tech can be a balancing act comparable to few.”If you don’t use it, you lose it,” Major Bret Martin said in […]
TBR focuses on graduation rates
New Tennessee Board of Regents regulations have Tech using more retention efforts to help students graduate.TBR has enacted a phase-in process that will start Fall 2011. The process is designed to help schools across Tennessee gradually raise their graduation rates up to determine yearly funding. The goal of the legislation […]
Students show demand for Arabic class
A growing desire among some students to learn Arabic has led to one of the most successful turnouts for a non-credit class at Tech. Nineteen out of the 20 seats available for the “Basic Arabic” class that started Monday have been filled, and plans for more classes are being drawn […]
Freshmen in hotels set to move on campus
Ninety incoming freshmen were living in local hotels awaiting rooms in residential halls just two weeks ago, due to Tech’s open enrollment policy. Everyone who enrolls and pays a deposit is guaranteed a room. No one is turned away from Tech, no matter how outrageous the overflow. “We have open […]
New Halls need new names
On move-in day, excited, nervous, sweaty freshmen moved onto campus with cars packed with items from home to make the drab dorm room livable. I still remember driving onto the packed campus that day three years ago to be surrounded by overly-eager upperclassmen ready to help me move in. This […]
Constitution Day, debate approach
Tech’s sixth annual Constitution Day and the non-partisan Highlands gubernatorial debate are scheduled to be held Tuesday on campus.Constitution Day is made possible through a $150,000 endowment left by former professor Nolan Fowler. Fowler’s endowment goal was for students to become more enlightened on the contents of the Constitution. “It […]
Tech to unleash awesomeness
The image of Tech is about to change as the new “Unleash Your Awesomeness” marketing campaign launches in the coming months.The marketing department’s goal is to attract high school students to Tech, and doing this requires special campaigns. The most recent one, called “More Than Tech,” is being phased out […]
Johnson Hall incident first of its kind at Tech
Last week’s lockdown of Johnson Hall brought about a lot of concerns. According to Tech’s website, the evacuation of the academic building was around 12:30 p.m. Aug. 31. The lockdown occurred shortly after someone informed University police that a person with bullets was seen in a restroom in the building. […]
Out with older books, in with new learning styles
The Volpe Library is undergoing an extensive renovation project, which involves tossing about a seventh of the books present now and adding a new section. Did I mention it costs roughly $2 million? The plan is to put in a learning commons for studying and sustaining student learning outside of […]
