A leader in the arts and a benefactor to the School of Music, Haslam has committed undetermined amounts of time and talent to the betterment of the university. Haslam currently serves as the co-chair of the College of Arts and Sciences Campaign Leadership Committee; co-chair, along with her husband, of the university’s $1 billion comprehensive [...]

Carl Barton Huffaker (1938, 1939) was president of the International Organization for Biological Control and an influential professor of entomology at the University of California. He was a member of the National Academy of Sciences, president of the Entomological Society of America, and a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science.

Arthur Preston Whitaker (1915) was a professor at the University of Pennsylvania from 1936 to 1965. He published 20 books and numerous articles.

Bernadotte Schmitt (1904) was a professor of history at Western Reserve University and the University of Chicago. He won the Pulitzer Prize for The Coming of the War: 1914. He was president of the American Historical Association.

William E. Derryberry (1928) was president of Tennessee Technological University in Cookeville, Tennessee, from 1940 to 1974.

James Zwingle (1929, 1932) was president of Park College (Missouri) from 1947 to 1955. He later was a vice president at Cornell University and president of the Association of Governing Boards of Universities and Colleges.

Seymour Allen Mynders (1880) was the first president of West Tennessee State Normal College (University of Memphis).

Edward C. Merrill Jr. (1948) was the fourth president of Gallaudet University. He served from 1969 to 1983. Merrill was dean of the UT College of Education at Knoxville from 1961 to 1969.

David Bancroft Johnson earned degrees from UT in Knoxville in 1877 and 1880. He founded Winthrop University (South Carolina) and was president of the National Education Association from 1915 to 1916.

Thomas W. Humes became president of East Tennessee University in 1865. During his term, in 1879, the legislature changed the institution’s name to the University of Tennessee. He resigned the presidency in 1883. Humes was an 1830 graduate of East Tennessee College, the forerunner of East Tennessee University and UT.