Publisher: UT Daily Beacon


UTHSC receives $3.25M grant to help support future healthcare workers

In the Media Icon

The College of Health Professions at the University of Tennessee Health Science Center (UTHSC) has been awarded a record-breaking $3.25 million grant from the Health Resources and Services Administration. The grant is meant to support a Health Careers Opportunity Program (HCOP) and is being called Reimagining Education for Advance Careers in Healthcare, or REACH. It’s… Read More


‘Our greatest decade’: UT Board of Trustees Executive Committee meeting addresses legislation, budget for 2023-24

In the Media Icon

The University of Tennessee Board of Trustees Executive Committee held their spring meeting on May 5. The meeting addressed a variety of topics, including budgetary issues and state legislation that impacts UT System and higher education in general. Other projects, both directly and indirectly affiliated with UT, will also receive money from state and local governments through a… Read More


Pharmacy student, free speech organization sue UT over vague professionalism policies

In the Media Icon

Student Kimberly Diei entered the College of Pharmacy at the UT Health Science Center in Memphis during the fall 2019 semester like any other any prospective pharmacist. However, her experience quickly turned sour, and now, she is suing the university over its professionalism policies alongside free speech advocate organization Foundation for Individual Rights in Education… Read More