2.1 Degree-granting Authority
The institution has degree-granting authority from the appropriate government agency or agencies.
Judgement of Compliance:
Compliance
Narrative:
The Tennessee State Legislature has given degree-granting authority to the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga through the University of Tennessee Board of Trustees. This authority is described in the Tennessee Code Annotated, Title 49, Education, Chapter 9, University of Tennessee.
(a) There is created and established by the state a campus of the University of Tennessee in Hamilton County, to be known as the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga.
(b) The trustees of the University of Tennessee are given the same power, authority and discretion to prescribe and offer courses, curricula and degree programs, acquire land and construct buildings, inaugurate and carry out all necessary supporting work and activities and award degrees of the University of Tennessee at the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga as the trustees now have and exercise at the other colleges and schools of the University of Tennessee.
(c) The president and professors of the university, with the advice and consent of a majority of the board, shall have full power and authority, at any stated session of the board, to confer on any student in the university, or any other person they may think proper, the degrees of Bachelor of Arts, Master of Arts or any other degree known and used in any college or university in any of the United States.
The Board of Trustees has delegated that authority to the President of the University and his or her designee (the Chancellor), as described in the Board of Trustees Charter, Article V, Section 8:
The University, by and through its president and professors, with the advice and consent of a majority of the Trustees, shall have full power and authority…to confer on any student in the University…any degree known.
Documentation:
- University of Tennessee at Chattanooga, General Provisions:
Acts 1968, ch. 447, § 1; T.C.A., § 49-3350 (Tennessee Code Annotated § 49-9-901(a)(b))
http://www.utc.edu/SACS/ComplianceReports/Documentation/CR21/GeneralProvisions.pdf
Click to navigate legal resources website - Powers of the Trustees: 1807 Tennessee Public Acts, Chapter 64, § 5 (Tennessee Code Annotated § 49-9-209 (f))
http://www.utc.edu/Administration/SACS/ComplianceReports/Documentation/CR21/PowersOfTheTrustees.pdf
Click to navigate legal resources website - UT Board of Trustees Charter, Article V, section 8
http://bot.tennessee.edu/charter.html
