The University of Tennessee Board of Trustees on Wednesday approved a $1.8 billion budget for fiscal year 2010. It includes one-time federal stimulus funding and increases tuition at every campus.

University of Tennessee trustees advocated more aggressive private fund-raising, mulled a lack of diversity at UT Knoxville and pushed for more aggressive cuts in academic programs as they began two days of meetings June 16.

University of Tennessee trustees discussed deeper cuts in academic programs, scrutinized budget plans and pushed for more aggressive private fund-raising as they began two days of meetings Tuesday, June 16.

UT Knoxville Chancellor’s Professor Carol Tenopir, a faculty member in the School of Information Sciences, is featured in this Inside Higher Ed story on how university libraries are serving the growing field of interdisciplinary studies.

Many experts say kids should be allowed to read pretty much whatever they want in summer. Richard Allington, a professor in theory and practice in teacher education at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, and an expert on reading, tells The Washington Post how parents should choose summer reading material for children.

The News Sentinel ran this front-page story on a UT Libraries project to scan, digitize and post online the Civil War diary of Henry Pippitt, who was in a Union Army regiment that fought battles around Nashville as well as in other states.

Dolly Parton’s speech to the 2009 graduates of the College of Arts and Sciences was one of four commencement videos featured on the front page of YouTube.com recently, resulting in great exposure for UT Knoxville.

Jennifer Lee spent spring break in Costa Rica and fell in love with the country and the food. She’s using that experience as inspiration this week as manager of the Ready for the World Café. The menu includes “gallo pinto” (a traditional Costa Rican breakfast food), fried plantain, “sofrito” mashed potatoes, Golabki Polish-style casserole and Indian fish curry.

UT Knoxville law professor Glenn Reynolds has a guest column in the March 30, 2009, edition of Forbes Magazine, in which he discusses the impact of peoples’ lengthening lifespans on the economy, medicine and politics.

In this article in the Chronicle Review, the book-review companion to the Chronicle of Higher Education, UT Knoxville history professor Robert J. Norrell discusses his book Up from History: The Life of Booker T. Washington.