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Table of Contents
- 1: President's Perspective
- 2: The Campaign for ETSU
- 4: Enrollment Success
- 6: Bluegrass Anniversary
- 8: A Touch of Tennessee in South Korea
- 11: Homecoming Highlights
- 12: A Shakespearean Drama
- 14: Broadway Begins
- 15: Hands-on Learning
- 17: Project EARTH
- 18: Beyond the Classroom
- 19: Moon Shot for Equity
- 21: Who's Going to ETSU?
- 22: Dateline: ETSU
- 24: Golf Powerhouse
- 27: Meet the Board of Trustees: Janet Ayers
- 28: Recovery Center Grant
- 29: ""Primary Sources""
- 29: TRIO Grants
- 30: Alumni Awards
- 32: ABET Accreditation
- 33: An ETSU Legacy
- 35: Growing the Future
- 37: Quillen Launches EQUIP
- 38: Who's Teaching at ETSU
- 41: Buccaneer Building Blocks
- 42: RITASEE Grant
- 43: Interprofessional Collaboration
- 43: ROTC Hall of Fame
- 44: Letter from Advancement
- 45: Class Notes
- 47: ETSU Obituaries
ETSU President
Brian Noland
Executive Editor
Fred Sauceman
Managing Editors
Melissa Nipper; Lorraine Vestal
Advancement/Alumni Editors
Pamela Ritter; Whitney Goetz
Contributing Writers
Kevin Brown; Karen Crigger; Lee Ann Davis; O.J. Early; Yasmeen Elayan; Mike Ezekiel; Jennifer Hill; Melissa Nipper; Phil Perry; Fred Sauceman; Robert Sawyer; Joe Smith; Lauren Templin; Jessica Vodden; Briar Worley
Cover/Graphic Design
Jeanette Henry Jewell
Photography/Art
Ron Campbell; Dakota Hamilton; Alika Jenner; Larry Smith; Charles Warden
Publication Date
Winter 2023
President's Message
This past semester, I had the pleasure of delivering one of the most exciting State of the University addresses of my tenure at East Tennessee State University. During the presentation, I shared many of our campus community’s outstanding accomplishments of the past year. Despite a global health crisis, we recorded our highest graduation rate in the university’s history. We outpaced most public universities in Tennessee in enrollment growth and welcomed the most diverse class in the institution’s history this fall. Even as we struggled against burnout from the pandemic, we recorded our highest levels of employee satisfaction and surpassed national benchmarks on the Great Colleges to Work For survey. We also hit a historic high in research funding. We even soared past the $120 million fundraising goal for our comprehensive campaign, raising more than $163 million. We are just getting started. I have long said that our region is not properly recognized across the state of Tennessee. There is far greater potential on our campus and in our communities than we have recognized. So, also this past fall, I unveiled a new call to action for ETSU. It is a simple phrase, which serves as both a rallying cry and a challenge to take our work to the next level: “Go Beyond.” Our campus is undertaking a series of exciting initiatives that will help us go beyond barriers to achieve new heights. We are implementing an academic Quality Enhancement Plan (QEP), which is focused on community-engaged learning. Through this effort, we will go beyond classrooms to communities. We recently launched the Moon Shot for Equity initiative, which aims to go beyond merely closing equity gaps to eliminating them. Our provost, Dr. Kimberly McCorkle, is working with faculty members and stakeholders across our colleges to redesign our general education curriculum, helping us go beyond the basics to build curricula that keep pace with our modern knowledge and innovation-focused world. Meanwhile, faculty, staff, and students are striving to go beyond traditional organizational boundaries. ETSU is working daily to build more collaborative partnerships with representatives from PK-12, community colleges, as well as economic development, community, and business leaders. But we cannot do any of it without you, our alumni and supporters. Our success relies on the support and engagement of our entire campus community. I look forward to hearing your thoughts and ideas and embarking on this journey with you. I cannot wait to see where we will go next. Sincerely, - Brian Noland, President
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