University of Tennessee at Chattanooga

University of Tennessee at Chattanooga

Motto	Faciemus
Motto in English	We shall achieve
Type	Public university
Established	1886
Endowment	$112.9 million (2016)[1]
Chancellor	Steve Angle
Administrative staff	422
Undergraduates	11,429
Postgraduates	1,364 (graduate, pre-professional, doctoral)
Location	Chattanooga, Tennessee, U.S. 35°02′45″N 85°18′00″W / 35.0458°N 85.2999°W / 35.0458; -85.2999Coordinates: 35°02′45″N 85°18′00″W / 35.0458°N 85.2999°W / 35.0458; -85.2999
Campus	Urban, 321 acres (1,300,000 m2)[2]
Colors	Navy and Gold[3]
Nickname	Mocs
Sporting affiliations	NCAA Division I – SoCon
Mascot	Scrappy the Mocking Bird
Website	www.utc.edu

The University of Tennessee at Chattanooga, (variously called UT-Chattanooga, UTC, or Chattanooga)^[4] is a public university located in Chattanooga, Tennessee, United States. The university is one of three universities and two other affiliated institutions in the University of Tennessee System (UT System).

History

UTC was founded in 1886 as the then-private and racially exclusive Chattanooga University, which was soon merged in 1889 with the Athens-based Grant Memorial University (now Tennessee Wesleyan University),^[5] becoming the Chattanooga campus of U.S. Grant Memorial University.^[6][7] In 1907, the school changed its name to University of Chattanooga. In 1964 the university merged with Zion College, which had been established in 1949 and later became Chattanooga City College. In 1969 the University of Chattanooga joined the UT system and became the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga.^[8]

The University of Chattanooga Foundation Inc. is a private corporation, created in 1969, that manages the private endowment of the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga.^[9]

Administration

UTC uses the semester system, with five optional "mini-terms" in the summer. The leadership of the campus rests upon the chancellor, who answers to the UT System President. The University is currently headed by Chancellor Dr. Steve Angle.^[10]

Student Government Association of UTC

A voice for student leadership on campus, the SGA consists of senators representing districts/the college they belong to, such as the College of Arts and Sciences.

Academics

Chattanooga is best known for its nationally ranked Business program,^[11] Engineering, Nursing, English, Chemistry, Accounting, Psychology, Music, and Education departments. The university offers over 140 undergraduate majors and concentrations, and over 50 undergraduate minors.^[12] Chattanooga also offers nearly 100 graduate programs and concentrations,^[12] including a highly ranked master's program in Industrial and Organizational Psychology^[13] and Ph.D. programs in Computational Engineering and Physical Therapy. In an effort to expand the horizons of its student body, UTC recently began an exchange program with Kangnung National University of Kangnung, South Korea.

Media and publications

Print

• University Echo – Student newspaper ^[14]
• Moccasin – Student yearbook ^[15]
• Education about Asia – Educational magazine
• Sequoya Review – Literary magazine ^[16]
• Modern Psychological Studies – Journal published by the Department of Psychology

Radio

• WUTC
• The Perch – Student-run online radio station^[17]

Research

• SimCenter is UTC's computational engineering and simulation center. In November 2005, SimCenter was listed as the 89th most powerful supercomputer by Top500.^[18] On November 20, 2007, the University announced the center has been named a National Center for Computational Engineering. More recently, The SimCenter provided the academic research for a new source of alternative energy unveiled by Bloom Energy Corporation in Sunnyvale, California.^[19]

Campus

The University is served by CARTA bus routes 4, 7, 10, 14, 19, and 28. Route 14 only operates on weekdays during fall and spring terms, when the University is session. The route runs on and off the campus on McCallie, Houston, Vine, Douglas, Fifth, and Palmetto Streets. A recent extension serves Third, O'Neal, and Central Streets, as well as Erlanger Hospital, and a large parking lot at Engel Stadium. All students showing valid University identification cards (MocsCards) ride for free on all CARTA routes, year-round.

Academic buildings

Note: Dates of construction given when known

Founder's Hall

• Administration Building – mailroom, parking services, motor pool and university police department
• Brenda Lawson Student Athlete Success Center – Scheduled to open in August 2008, the center will house the Wolford Family Strength and Conditioning Center and the Chattem Basketball Center
• Bretske Hall – Formerly the university cafeteria, prior home of the Geology Department
• Brock Hall – Foreign languages, geography, anthropology, history and sociology departments.
• Challenger Center – The widow of Dick Scobee, a Challenger astronaut, donated the building in her husband's memory. This educational simulation includes different space missions with project completed from mission control and a space station.
• Cadek Hall (pronounced "SHODD-ik") – Home to the Cadek Conservatory, UTC Choral Department, and WUTC radio.
• Davenport Hall – Criminal Justice, Social Work, and Physical Therapy Departments
• Engineering, Mathematics and Computer Science Building (EMCS)
• Fletcher Hall – (1939) Business Administration and Political Science departments. From 1939 to 1974, Fletcher housed both the local public library and the university library
• Founders' Hall – (1916) Chancellor's offices, University Relations
• Frist Hall – Disability Resource Center, MoSAIC Program, Communication Department, Student Support Services. Once part of the Chattanooga metro hospital complex
• Grote Hall (pronounced "GROW-tee") – (1968) Chemistry and physics departments
• Guerry Hall (pronounced "GEH-ree") – Houses admissions, honors program and reading room, Economics Department
• Holt Hall – Biology, English, philosophy, psychology, and religion departments
• Hooper-Race Hall – (1916) Records and registration, financial aid, and human resources departments. Recently, Hooper Hall reopened after a lead and asbestos abatement project
• Hunter Hall Education Department
• Lupton Library – (1974) see below
• Metropolitan Hall – Nursing department. Formerly housed the Chattanooga Metropolitan Hospital
• Old Math Building – Demolished in the late 1990s.
• President's House – Development (fundraising) Department
• Patten House – (1893) Located in the Fort Wood National Historic District. Home of the Alumni Affairs Department.
• Dorothy Patten Fine Arts Center – (1980) Houses the Dorothy Hackett Ward theatre, the Roland W. Hayes Concert Hall and the George Ayers Cress Art Gallery, referred to as the "FAC." Also houses the UTC Music and Theater Departments
• University Center – Bursar's Office, and Student areas include a computer lab, a recreation and game room, offices, main cafeteria, bookstore, classrooms and auditoriums; administrative areas include meeting rooms, administrative offices for the student development division, counseling and career planning, women's center, student placement and employment and cooperative education and Bursars Office
• University Hall – (1886) "Old Main." Demolished in 1917

Patten Chapel

Patten Chapel

• Patten Chapel is one of the busiest sanctuaries in Chattanooga. Mostly weddings and memorial services are held there. A bride's room has been prepared and is always ready. Reserving the chapel should be done around a year in advance as its popularity sees events almost every weekend. Wedding receptions are not hosted at the chapel.

Library

The Lupton Memorial Library, named for T. Cartter and Margaret Rawlings Lupton, was constructed in 1974 to replace the aging John Storrs Fletcher Library (which has since been restored and renamed Fletcher Hall). As of 2005, the library's collection includes nearly 2 million items, including the Fellowship of Southern Writers archives. In early 2008 the University was granted funding to build a new library.^[20]

The University broke ground in 2010 for the new $48 million 180,000-square-foot (17,000 m²) library. Construction was completed in January 2015.^[21]

Notable alumni, students, and faculty

• Burwell Baxter Bell, U.S. Army general, 1968
• Hugh Beaumont, actor (most notably portrayed Ward Cleaver on Leave It to Beaver), 1927
• Eldra Buckley, NFL football player, 2007
• Anthony Burger, pianist, 1966
• Bill Butler, former NFL player, 1958
• North Callahan, author and historian whose papers and book collection now reside in the UTC Lupton Library, 1930
• Steven Fox, golfer, 2012 U.S. Amateur champion
• Gibby Gilbert, PGA Tour professional golfer, 1963
• Irvine W. Grote, chemist, inventor of the active ingredient in Rolaids and Bufferin, UC 1918; chemistry faculty, 1942–1969
• Dennis Haskins, actor (most notably portrayed Mr. Belding on Saved By The Bell), 1972
• Tony Hill, NFL and CFL football player, 1990
• Brent Johnson, NFL football player, 1986
• Leslie Jordan, Emmy-winning actor, 1982
• Mindaugas Katelynas, basketball player, 2005
• Chris Lewis-Harris, NFL football player (Cincinnati Bengals), 2011
• Charlie Long, basketball player, football player (NFL/AFL ALL-Pro)
• Lanni Marchant, long-distance runner, 2007
• Khaled Mattawa, poet and writer, 1989
• Barry Moser, artist and professor, 1962 ^[22]
• Terrell Owens, NFL football player, basketball player. Selected in the third round of the 1996 NFL Draft by the San Francisco 49ers.
• Cherie Priest, author, 2001
• Curtis Rouse, former NFL football player, 1982
• Lewis Smith, actor North and South. Also the Hevenly Kid, 1979
• Buster Skrine, NFL football player (Cleveland Browns, New York Jets), 2011
• Johnny Taylor, former NBA basketball player, 1997. Drafted in the first round, 17th pick
• Del Vaughn, CBS News correspondent killed in a helicopter crash in 1972 in Pennsylvania while covering the flooding from Hurricane Agnes
• Bo Watson, Member of Tennessee State Senate, 1983
• Gerald Wilkins, former NBA basketball player, 1984
• Pez Whatley, football player and UTC's first black wrestler, later became a pro wrestler
• Willie White, former NBA basketball player

Athletics

Athletics logo

Chattanooga's colors are navy and old gold; their men's teams and athletes are nicknamed Mocs, and women's teams and athletes are Lady Mocs. Chattanooga athletics teams compete in NCAA Division I (FCS for football) in the Southern Conference (SoCon) and have been ranked as a national top 100 athletic program by The National Association of Collegiate Director’s of Athletics (NACDA) in the Division I Learfield Sports Director’s Cup.^[23]

Basketball

Chattanooga's men's basketball program has been among the best in the Southern Conference since joining the league in 1977–78. The Mocs have won 10 SoCon Tournament titles, tied for first all-time with former member West Virginia and Davidson, 10 regular-season league championships prior to the change to the division format in 1995 and seven division titles for 27 totals titles. In 1997, led by coach Mack McCarthy and Chattanooga native Johnny Taylor, the Mocs made a run to the Sweet 16 as a No. 14 seed, beating Georgia and Illinois before falling to Providence. Before making the move to Division I, Chattanooga won the Division II National Championship in 1977.^[24] In July 2008, the team was ranked number 48 on the ESPN list of the most prestigious basketball programs since the 1984–85 season.^[25]

The Mocs won the SoCon tournament once again in 2009. Defeating the College of Charleston Cougars 80-69 in the championship game on their home court at the McKenzie Arena, the Mocs punched their ticket to the NCAA Tournament, their first since 2005.

Jimmy Fallon from Late Night with Jimmy Fallon chose the Mocs as his team of choice going into the 2009 NCAA Tournament. The Wednesday night (March 18) show included a live Skype chat with Head Coach John Shulman, as well as representatives of the pep band and cheerleading squads made in studio. Fallon's house band The Roots wrote and performed an ode to Shulman titled, "The Don Juan of the SoCon" and Shulman and his six seniors (Nicchaeus Doaks, Zach Ferrell, Kevin Goffney, Khalil Hartwell, Stephen McDowell and Keyron Sheard) made an in-studio appearance following their tournament game with UConn.

The Lady Mocs are the most successful women's basketball program in Southern Conference history with 15 regular season titles since 1983–1984, 10 consecutive conference championships at the end of 2008–2009 and 14 overall conference championships.^[26]

Golf

The men’s golf squad won its third consecutive Southern Conference trophy and finished 18th in the NCAA Championships in 2009.

In August 2012, UTC golfer Steven Fox won the U.S. Amateur Championship.

Women’s golf posted a 3.46 team GOA in the spring while advancing to the NCAA Division I finals in just the second year of the program since disbanding in the mid-1980s.^[27]

Softball

The Mocs’ softball team has won 11 regular season titles and 10 SoCon Tournament Championships. They have also made 7 NCAA tournament appearances.^[26]

Wrestling

Chattanooga is home to the only NCAA Division I wrestling program in the state of Tennessee. The Mocs' wrestling team has won 8 of the past 9 Socon title's since the 2012–2013 academic year.^[26]

Football

The team plays in the Southern Conference in Division I FCS (formerly I-AA) (Socon). Terrell Owens played college football at UTC. The team won three-straight SoCon championships from 2013 to 2015. They play in Finley Stadium, which hosted the NCAA Division I Football Championship from 1997 to 2009.

Athletic venues

• Chamberlain Field – (1908–1997)
• Finley Stadium – (1997–present)
• Maclellan Gymnasium and natatorium – (Gym opened 1961; natatorium opened 1968)
• McKenzie Arena – (1982–present) aka the Roundhouse, due to its circular shape and the city's association with the railroad industry.

University nickname

The school's athletic teams are called the Mocs. The teams were nicknamed Moccasins until 1996. (The origin of the name is uncertain; however, Moccasin Bend is a large horseshoe-shaped bend in the Tennessee River directly below Lookout Mountain.)

The mascot has taken on four distinct forms, with a water moccasin being the mascot in the 1920s, and then a moccasin shoe (known as "The Shoe") was actually used as the school's mascot at times in the 1960s and 1970s. From the 1970s until 1996, the mascot was Chief Moccanooga, an exaggerated Cherokee tribesman.

In 1996, due to concerns over ethnic sensitivity,^[28] the Moccasins name and image were dropped in favor of the shortened "Mocs" and an anthropomorphized northern mockingbird, in accordance with the state bird, named "Scrappy" dressed as a railroad engineer. The school's main athletic logo features Scrappy riding a train (a reference to Chattanooga's history as a major railroad hub and to the song "Chattanooga Choo Choo"). The mascot takes its name from former football coach A. C. "Scrappy" Moore.

Fight song

The fight song for UTC is "Fight Chattanooga".^[29]

Band

The marching band is referred to as the "Marching Mocs" and performs at all home games.

References

External links

• Official website