Beverly J. Davenport
| Beverly J. Davenport | |
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| 8th Chancellor, University of Tennessee Knoxville, Tennessee |
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Assumed office February 15, 2017 |
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| Preceded by | Jimmy Cheek |
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| Born | Bowling Green, Kentucky |
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Ford Sypher, New York City Sloan Sypher, Campbell, CA |
| Residence | Knoxville, Tennessee |
| Alma mater |
The University of Michigan, PhD Western Kentucky University, MA Western Kentucky University, BA |
| Website | Office of the Chancellor |
Ford Sypher, New York City
The University of Michigan, PhD Western Kentucky University, MA
Beverley Davenport is the Chancellor of the University of Tennessee, serving since February 15, 2017. She leads the flagship campus of the state with a $1.2 billion budget, record-setting enrollment of nearly 28,000 students, some 250,000 alumni, over 12,000 faculty, staff and student workers and a $1.2 billion endowment. With nearly $250 million in annual research expenditures on the Knoxville campus and some $470 million system-wide, including the Health Sciences Institute in Memphis, UT is a Carnegie Research I Top 30 public research university with an annual economic impact of over $4.3 billion system-wide. UT Knoxville alone has a $1.4 billion dollar economic impact on the Knoxville area and employs more than 32,000 area residents.
In collaboration with the university’s senior leadership, faculty, staff and students, Davenport helps advance the ambitious goals outlined in the Vol Vision: Journey to the Top, which includes a continued focus on solving real world problems through engagement in Tennessee communities while searching for solutions to global challenges, investing in a competitive and diverse faculty, staff and student body, enhancing the student experience and increasing student success, strengthening the research infrastructure while leveraging transdisciplinary research, humanistic inquiry and creative design alongside business development and technology commercialization that place the University of Tennessee and the state as leaders in innovation, sustainable stewards of resources and work ready graduates and engaged global citizens. UT Knoxville, in partnership with Battelle, manages Oak Ridge National Laboratory with their historic breakthroughs in nuclear engineering, energy, advanced manufacturing and leadership in computing and data science.
In an interview shortly after stepping into the role as Chancellor, Davenport said of UT, “There is something special here about that great sense of pride in this institution and its traditions and I love that, and I feel it, and I think thats what carries me and carries all of us every day.”
Davenport began serving at the Chancellor of the University of Tennessee on February 15, 2017.
Prior to her appointment at Tennessee, Davenport served as the 29th President at the University of Cincinnati in an interim capacity following the departure of the former President, Santa Ono, who left for the presidency of the University of British Columbia. Her interim appointment at UC followed a three-year stint as the Senior Vice President for Academic Affairs and Provost.
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