Several UT Knoxville facilities are being renamed as they transition to new uses. All of the names approved will honor families or individuals who have made a significant contribution to the university and its history. One of the names marks a first in UT history.

Fred D. Brown

The new Fred D. Brown Residence Hall is the first building on the UT Knoxville campus to be named for an African-American person.

“We are proud that we can carry on the legacy of these individuals who have contributed to UT’s rich diversity and inspiring history,” said Chancellor Jimmy G. Cheek.

Approved by the board were proposals to name:

• The new residence hall currently under construction on Andy Holt Avenue to the Fred D. Brown Jr. Residence Hall in honor of the longtime staff member who created the Office of Diversity Programs in the College of Engineering. The construction project is the first new residence hall to be built in forty-three years, and the hall will accommodate 700 men and women when it opens in 2014.

Now in its fortieth year, the Office of Diversity programs has recruited and supported more than 900 students from underrepresented groups who have graduated from the college. Brown founded it with just seventeen students, and his work has had a significant impact on the engineering profession.

Brown with students Robert Phillips and Marily Horhn in September 1973.

Brown graduated from Hall High School in Alcoa, Tennessee, and earned his college degree from the Tuskegee Institute. He did post-graduate work at UT, Tennessee State University, Fisk University, and Vanderbilt University. He taught at Hall High School in Alcoa and Oak Ridge High School. He was the first African-American teacher at Oak Ridge High soon after it was integrated and became the first African-American member of the Alcoa Board of Education.

• The former Student Health Center, 1818 Andy Holt Way, to Temple Hall in honor of Oliver P. Temple and his daughter, Mary Boyce Temple. The new Student Health Building opened last year on Volunteer Boulevard. The former health center is currently being renovated for College of Nursing and College of Arts and Sciences programs.

Two previous buildings and a street have been named for the Temples throughout UT history. Temple Hall once served as an assembly center on the Agriculture Campus but no longer exists. The main route through campus, Temple Avenue, was renamed Volunteer Boulevard. Temple Court, which housed Career Services on the corner of Cumberland and Volunteer Boulevard, was razed in late 2012 to make room for a larger Student Union now under construction.

Oliver Temple was a trustee of East Tennessee University, which was later named the University of Tennessee, from 1820 until his death in 1907. He was a Greenville, Tennessee, lawyer and once ran unsuccessfully for Congress against Andrew Johnson. He was a driving force in expanding UT’s agriculture programs and its land grant designation.

Mary Boyce Temple continued her father’s work by establishing a foundation in 1919 to purchase and breed purebred animals and improve plant breeding. She later gave her library to UT.

• The new football practice facility the Anderson Training Center in honor of the Anderson families of Knoxville and Florence, Alabama. The families’ generosity helped to make the new state-of-the-art facility a reality. This 145,000-square-foot building includes an amphitheater-style team room, coaches’ offices, position meeting rooms, a first-class dining facility, players’ lounge, a 7,000-square-foot locker room, and a 22,000 square-foot multilevel weight room, as well as a new training room and hydrotherapy area. The Anderson Training Center will be central to the physical training and development of all Tennessee athletic teams.

The board also approved a proposal to modify the name of the Frank H. McClung Museum to the Frank H. McClung Museum of Natural History and Culture to better reflect its mission.

The John D. Tickle Engineering Building’s name was also modified to include the middle initial D of its benefactor, a 1965 graduate of the college. The Tickle building will be home to the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering and the Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering. The building is set to open to students in fall 2013.

Read more about today’s Board of Trustees meeting at the University of Tennessee System website.

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The degree was approved by the Board of Trustees at its meeting today. Holliday will receive an honorary doctorate in engineering at the December 15 commencement ceremony, where he will be the featured speaker.

Holliday graduated in 1970 with a bachelor’s degree in industrial engineering and has been a longtime supporter of his college and the university.

“He has benefited UT by giving his time, his advice, his advocacy, and his gifts,” said Wayne Davis, dean of the College of Engineering, in nominating Holliday for the honorary degree. “He has contributed to society by leading DuPont—one of the Fortune 500′s largest international companies—in sustainable growth, and by giving thoughtful guidance to political, community, and educational endeavors at local, national, and international levels.”

Holliday parlayed a college summer job at DuPont’s Old Hickory plant in Nashville into a thirty-eight-year career at DuPont, the largest chemical company in the United States. He served as CEO for ten years. While leading DuPont, Holliday made sustainable growth—increasing company value while decreasing the environmental footprint—a core mission.

In 2004, Holliday was elected to the National Academy of Engineering, and he also was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2010. He currently serves as chairman of the National Academy of Engineering.

Holliday co-chairs the United Nations Secretary-General’s High-Level Group on Sustainable Energy for All, a group that includes distinguished global leaders in business, finance, government, and civil society.

He also chairs the American Energy Innovation Council, whose mission is to re-establish America’s energy technology leadership in developing clean energy technologies. Members include Bill Gates as well as Jeff Immelt of General Electric.

While chairman of the World Business Council for Sustainable Development, Holliday co-authored the book Walking the Talk, a detailed business case for sustainable development and corporate responsibility.

Holiday received the 1999 Nathan Dougherty Award, the highest honor given by the UT College of Engineering. He received the first Volunteer of the Year Distinguished Alumnus Award from UT in 2008. He also served as co-chair of the College of Engineering’s campaign committee for the Campaign for Tennessee and on the board of directors for the UT Development Council.

He serves on the board of directors for many companies and organizations, including Deere & Co., Royal Dutch Shell, CH2M Hill, the Climate Works Foundation, the World Wildlife Fund, the National Geographic Education Foundation, and the United Nations Global Compact.

Holliday is past chair of Catalyst, a leading nonprofit organization dedicated to expanding opportunities for women in business. He is also past chair of the US Council on Competitiveness, a nonpartisan governmental organization working to ensure US prosperity. He is a founding member of the International Business Council.

A native of Nashville, Holliday and his wife, Ann Blair Holliday, have two sons, Chad and Scot.

The board also voted to approve an 8 percent tuition increase for UT Knoxville students. Several student fees also were increased—all related to campus growth and expansion of student services.

Chancellor Jimmy G. Cheek said recommending a tuition increase is a difficult, but necessary deliberation.

“We’re committed to provide our students with the best education possible,” Cheek said. “Investing in programs, facilities, faculty, and staff makes a difference in their overall experience and in the university.”

This year, $3.1 million will be used for academic reinvestment to add courses and laboratories, advisors, and support to improve services and help students address obstacles to graduation. About $1.8 million will be used for new need-based scholarships to help Tennessee students address financial obstacles to enrolling.

UT remains a good value, Cheek said, noting that it is near bottom in cost comparisons with its state public university peers. He said the university is operating more efficiently even though it lost $64 million in recurring state funds.

It also has made progress in its goals for becoming a Top 25 university.

UT faculty and staff will receive a 2.5 percent or $1,000, which ever is greater, pay increase on July 1, a portion of which is funded by the state. The Knoxville campus, UT system, Institute of Agriculture, and Institute for Public Service are funding 2.5 percent pools to reward high performers and address market salary issues.

Cheek said investing in the people who carryout the university’s mission is critical to its goals. Fundraising has brought significant private funds for new endowments to retain and recruit top faculty.

The budget for fiscal year 2012-13 also includes $94 million in state capital funds for renovation and expansion of Strong Hall to add needed classrooms and laboratories. The campus will contribute $18.75 million for the project, which will begin in summer 2013. The state also funded $11 million for capital maintenance to upgrade the electrical system and repair roofs. It has been four years since the state has dedicated capital funds for university projects due to unprecedented revenue shortfalls associated with the recession.

The campus received additional state funds based on performance measures that are now part of its state funding formula through the Tennessee Complete College Act of 2010. The campus excelled in graduation rates, research funding, and student retention.

The board also approved a new tuition model that takes effect for new students entering in the fall of 2013. The new model will charge new full-time undergraduate students for 15 credit hours, instead 12 credit hours, as in the current structure. Cheek emphasized the need for students to graduate in four years and this new model will tie a financial incentive to that expectation.

The university will spend this next year communicating the change to prospective students who will soon apply to enter as freshmen in fall 2013.

The full board’s meeting will begin at 1:30 p.m., Friday, October 28.

The meeting will be webcast live and archived for later viewing. For a link to the webcast, go to http://www.tennessee.edu/.

Among the items covered will be a report from President Joe DiPietro, remarks from Chancellor Jimmy G. Cheek, and discussion of UT’s 2012–2013 operating budget appropriations and capital outlay and maintenance project requests.

The meeting’s full agenda and materials will be posted at http://bot.tennessee.edu/.