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The University of Tennessee at Chattanooga[1]
Motto	Faciemus (We shall achieve)
Established	1886, 1969
Type	State-funded
Endowment	$77.3 million[2]
Chancellor	Roger Brown
President	Jan Simek (interim)[3]
Staff	422
Undergraduates	10,526
Postgraduates	1,364 (graduate, pre-professional, doctoral)
Location	Chattanooga, TN, USA 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, 102.3 acres (1,947,436 Gross Square Feet)[4]
Athletics	Southern Conference, NCAA Division I
Nickname	Mocs
Mascot	Scrappy a Mocking bird
Website	http://www.utc.edu

The University of Tennessee at Chattanooga is a SACS (Southern Association of Colleges and Schools) accredited university located in Chattanooga, Tennessee. The University, often referred to as UTC or simply "Chattanooga" (especially in reference to collegiate athletics), is one of three universities and two other affiliated institutions in the University of Tennessee System; the others being in Knoxville and Martin.

UTC was founded in 1886 as then-private Chattanooga University (later known as Grant College). In 1907, the University changed its name to the University of Chattanooga. In 1969, the university merged with Zion College and Chattanooga City College to form The University of Tennessee at Chattanooga as part of the University of Tennessee System.^[5]

Administration

Chattanooga 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 current chancellor is Dr. Roger Brown.

Student Government Association of UTC

A voice for student leadership on campus. 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[4] program^[6], Engineering[5], Nursing[6], English[7], Chemistry[8], Accounting [9],Psychology[10], and Education departments. The university offers over 140 undergraduate majors and concentrations, and over 50 undergraduate minors^[7]. Chattanooga also offers nearly 100 graduate programs^[8] and concentrations, including a highly ranked^[9] master's program in Industrial and Organizational Psychology[11] and Ph.D. programs in Education, Computational Engineering and Physical Therapy. In an effort to expand the horizons of its students body, Chattanooga recently began exchange with Kangnung National University of Kangnung, South Korea [12]

Publications

• University Echo – Student newspaper
• Sequoya Review – Literary magazine
• Modern Psychological Studies[13] – Journal published by the Department of Psychology [14]

Research

• SimCenter is UTC's computational engineering and simulation center. In November 2005, SimCenter was listed as the 89th most powerful supercomputer by Top500.^[10] On November 20, 2007, the University announced the center has been named a National Center for Computational Engineering.^{[citation needed]} More recently, The SimCenter provided the academic research for a new source of alternative energy unveiled by Bloom Energy Corporation in Sunnyvale, California.^[11]

About the 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 within and without the Chattanooga 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 (aka MocsCards) ride for free on all CARTA routes, year-round.

The campus also operates its own in-house television station and runs an independent radio station, WUTC.

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, now home to the Geology Department
• Brock Hall - Foreign languages, geography, anthropology, history and sociology departments.
• Challenger Center [15] - 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 - Office For Student with Disabilities, Mosaic Program , Communication Department. 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

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 and is currently in the planning phase of the project.^[12]

Greek Life

Sororities: National Panhellenic Conference

• Alpha Delta Pi
• Chi Omega
• Kappa Delta
• Sigma Kappa
• Phi Sigma Sigma (chapter currently inactive)
• Pi Beta Phi (chapter currently inactive)

National Pan-Hellenic Council

• Alpha Phi Alpha
• Alpha Kappa Alpha
• Delta Sigma Theta (banned from campus for hazing)
• Sigma Gamma Rho
• Zeta Phi Beta
• Kappa Alpha Psi (banned from campus for hazing)
• Omega Psi Phi
• Phi Beta Sigma

Fraternities: North-American Interfraternity Conference

• Kappa Sigma
• Lambda Chi Alpha (Zeta-Phi Chapter)
• Phi Delta Theta
• Phi Mu Alpha
• Pi Kappa Alpha
• Sigma Chi
• Tau Kappa Epsilon (banned from campus for hazing 2009-2013)

Other Greek Organizations:

• Alpha Kappa Psi
• Sigma Alpha Iota
• Omega Phi Alpha

Notable alumni, students and faculty

• Hugh Beaumont, actor (most notably portrayed Ward Cleaver on Leave It to Beaver), 1927
• Burwell Baxter Bell, U.S. Army general, 1968
• Dr. North Callahan, author and historian whose papers and book collection now reside in the UTC Lupton Library, 1919
• Dr. Irvine W. Grote, chemist, inventor of Rolaids and Bufferin, UC 1918; chemistry faculty, 1942–1969
• Dennis Haskins, actor, 1972
• Leslie Jordan, Emmy-winning actor, 1982
• Terrell Owens, football player, basketball player, 1996 Wide Receiver for the NFL's Buffalo Bills
• Johnny Taylor, basketball player, 1997
• Gerald Wilkins, basketball player, 1984
• Pez Whatley, football player and UTC's first black wrestler, later became a pro wrestler
• Charles H. Lippy, a LeRoy A. Martin Distinguished Professor of Religious Studies and author on religion in American Culture and most recently President-Elect of the American Society of Church History.
• Dr. Diane Grob Schmidt, chemist and leader of the team at Proctor & Gamble that created PertPlus Shampoo, 1967.
• Barry Moser, artist and professor, 1970.

Athletics

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 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.^[13]

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 PG Wes Moore, 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.^{[citation needed]} In July 2008, the team was ranked number 48 on the ESPN list of the most prestigious basketball programs since the 1984-85 season.^[14]

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 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.^[15]

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

Women’s golf posted a 3.46 team g.p.a. in the Spring while advancing to the NCAA Division 1 finals in just the second year of the program since disbanding in the mid-1980s.^[16]

Softball The Mocs’ softball team has won 11 regular season titles and 10 SoCon Tournament Championships. They have also made 7 NCAA tournament appearances.^[17]

Wrestling Chattanooga is home to the only NCAA Division I wrestling program in the state of Tennessee. The Mocs Wrestling team won their fifth consecutive Socon title in 2008-2009. ^[18]

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 mascot

Chattanooga Mocs main logo

Chattanooga Mocs alternate logo

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,^[19] the Moccasins name and image were dropped in favor of the shortened "Mocs" and an anthropomorphized 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 Chattanooga is Fight Chattanooga. The lyrics are:

Fight Chattanooga,
'til the victory is won
Mighty Mocs you know
we're counting on you,
Go UTC Gold and Blue
Fight! Fight!
Roll on Chattanooga,
Ride the rails to victory
Ever more we pledge
to be true to UTC.

Band

The Director of Bands of the University is Dr. Stuart Benkert, and the Assistant Director is Dr. Erika Schafer.

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

References

External links

• Official UTC website
• Official Chattanooga athletics site
• Fan Message Board

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