U of M announces interim provost
Abby Parrill-Baker will serve as U of M’s interim provost.
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Abby Parrill-Baker will serve as U of M’s interim provost.
On Behind The Headlines, the outgoing University of Memphis president said none of the crises were in academia. He also discussed leveraging sports to fund academic growth and said a Liberty Bowl decision is coming.
This week, “La Cages aux Folles” opens at Theatre Memphis, Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Jericho Brown reads at the University of Memphis, Railgarten hosts a belated Mardi Gras party and Broad Avenue’s First Fridays are back with “March Madness.”
Classes will be canceled Friday at area schools due to the threats associated with the winter weather. Christian Brothers University and the U of M will also be closed.
The governor announced a significant boost to education funding in his State of the State Address on Monday, Jan. 31, with nearly $2 billion going to higher education.
The University of Memphis is significantly reducing its operations in Collierville.
Scheidt’s children are creating a matching fund, meaning that the goal is that the new fund will raise $1 million total.
The University of Memphis and Germantown Community Library are teaming up to set the community’s youngest residents on a path to success.
The grant program would have funded faculty members who are redesigning their curriculum to align with the university’s commitment to diversity, equity and inclusion.
The University of Memphis is now in the top tier of research universities nationally.
Beverly Robertson, president and CEO of the Greater Memphis Chamber, often touts what she calls Memphis’ four R’s: road, rail, river and runway. Now, she says it’s time to add a fifth: research.
A coalition led by the University of Memphis was selected as a finalist in the U.S. Economic Development Administration’s Build Back Better Regional Challenge and awarded a $500,000 planning grant.
The space co-hosting the University of Memphis’ University Middle and University High School will bear the name of SCS board member Billy Orgel and his wife Robin, after the couple committed $1 million to the schools.
Team of teens from Memphis neighborhoods counter “pay-to-play” youth sports machine with Play Where You Stay.
The university still encouraged workers to get vaccinated and submit proof.
The University of Memphis is asking Gov. Bill Lee for $25 million to renovate its business school. Many say it would make the university more competitive with elite public universities.
The Tigers are officially a Top 10 team.
The university clarified that a September executive order from the Biden administration requiring vaccinations for federal contractors would apply to the university.
The newly elected president is a first-generation high school graduate from rural Arkansas. His unconventional path is one that many of the board members admired in their remarks last week.
Jordan Occasionally was one of 12 contestants selected among thousands of entrants.
Earlier this year, the organization received a $300,000 donation from the creators of Pokemon Go. It was the largest donation in the nonprofit’s history.
Bill C. Hardgrave, a provost at Auburn University, is the recommendation to be the next University of Memphis president.
Acclaimed author and memoirist Carmen Maria Machado will appear at the University of Memphis Nov. 11 and 12.
The University of Memphis’ third and final candidate for presidency is Teik Lim, the interim president at the University of Texas at Arlington and a professor of mechanical and aerospace engineering.
The third candidate’s information will be distributed Tuesday, Nov. 2, for the Nov. 4 open sessions.