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Important Dates October 3-5: Fall Family Weekend October 8: First Session Classes End October 9-10: Fall Break (No Classes) October 13: Second Session Classes Begin November 27-28: Thanksgiving Break (No Classes) December 2: Full Term and Second Session Classes End December 4-11: Final Exam Period December 12: Graduate hooding December 13: Commencement December 22-26: University Closed January 1 : University Closed January 7: Spring Semester Classes Begin January 19 : Martin Luther King, Jr. Holiday (No Classes) March 16-20 : Spring Break (No Classes) April 10 : Spring Recess (No Classes) Archived E-mails	September 10, 2008 Family Weekend Registration Family Weekend Registration is still open! Thank you to all the families that have already registered! Registration will remain open this week for all events including the Friday Night Dinner, Parent and Family Seminars, the outdoor movie, and other Friday evening programming. We hope you will make plans to attend the Big Orange Tailgate Party and the UT vs. Northern Illinois Football game. These Volunteer Traditions are sure to be a great time for you and your family. Click here for information on the Parents Association's October Family Weekend. Hotel reservations are also available; please contact World Travel at (865) 974-9200. Make Orange Green Week UT's Make Orange Green campaign is sponsoring "Make Orange Green Week" with numerous events focused on increasing students' awareness of environment friendliness and sustainability. A highlighted event during the week is the Light Bulb Exchange, in which students living in residence halls can exchange their standard (incandescent) light bulbs for free low-energy compact fluorescents. The schedule for the exchange is: September 10-11 at Laurel, Volunteer, and Clement Halls; Sept 15-16 at Massey, Greve, and Hess Halls; and Sept 17-18 at Reese, North Carrick, South Carrick, and Humes Halls. For more information on Make Orange Green and "Make Orange Green Week," click here. Career Services Fall Job Fair Career Services is hosting their annual Fall Job Fair on Tuesday, September 16, 2008 from 10:00 AM until 3:00 PM in Thompson-Boling Arena. Students from all majors are encouraged to attend this free job fair. Click here for more information and for a list of employers coming to the Fall Job Fair. Chancellor Forums Students are welcome and encouraged to attend the forums for the remaining chancellor candidates. The final forum for Dr. Jennie Hunter-Cevera is 3:15 PM today, Wednesday, September 10, in the University Center Auditorium. Forums for Dr. Ellen Wartella are September 15-16, and forums for Dr. Howard Johnson are September 18-19. Finally, forums for Dr. Jimmy Cheek are Sept. 24-25. Forums will be webcast. Click here for more information. Love United Gospel Choir Love United Gospel Choir (LUGC) holds practices Friday evenings at 7:00 PM at the Black Cultural Center. LUGC encourages all students from all races, ethnic backgrounds and paths to join for the sole purpose of ministering through song. Besides singing, the Love United Gospel Choir and its members continuously serve the UT campus and Knoxville community. Visit http://web.utk.edu/~lugc/ for more information on Love United Gospel Choir. Pre-Game Faculty Showcase Kicks Off Saturday UT's College of Arts and Sciences continues its Pre-Game Faculty Showcase series this football season. These 45-minute informative, entertaining presentations feature all-stars of the UT Knoxville College of Arts and Sciences faculty. Each presentation is free and open to the public and begins two hours prior to kick-off in the University Center Ballroom, Room 213. Complimentary light refreshments are provided. The first showcase takes place prior to the Volunteers' home opener against the University of Alabama-Birmingham on Saturday, September 13, 2008 and will feature Wesley Baldwin, associate professor in the Cello Studio in the School of Music and is entitled "Brazilian-Bach Fusion: The Music of Villa-Lobos." THE UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE PARENTS ASSOCIATION 412 STUDENT SERVICES BUILDING, KNOXVILLE, TN 37996 http://parents.utk.edu :: parents@utk.edu

Important Dates

October 3-5: Fall Family Weekend

October 8: First Session Classes End

October 9-10: Fall Break (No Classes)

October 13: Second Session Classes Begin

November 27-28: Thanksgiving Break (No Classes)

December 2: Full Term and Second Session Classes End

December 4-11: Final Exam Period

December 12: Graduate hooding

December 13: Commencement

December 22-26: University Closed

January 1 : University Closed

January 7: Spring Semester Classes Begin

January 19 : Martin Luther King, Jr. Holiday (No Classes)

March 16-20 : Spring Break (No Classes)

April 10 : Spring Recess (No Classes)

Archived E-mails

September 10, 2008

Family Weekend Registration

Family Weekend Registration is still open! Thank you to all the families that have already registered! Registration will remain open this week for all events including the Friday Night Dinner, Parent and Family Seminars, the outdoor movie, and other Friday evening programming. We hope you will make plans to attend the Big Orange Tailgate Party and the UT vs. Northern Illinois Football game. These Volunteer Traditions are sure to be a great time for you and your family.

Click here for information on the Parents Association's October Family Weekend. Hotel reservations are also available; please contact World Travel at (865) 974-9200.

Make Orange Green Week

UT's Make Orange Green campaign is sponsoring "Make Orange Green Week" with numerous events focused on increasing students' awareness of environment friendliness and sustainability. A highlighted event during the week is the Light Bulb Exchange, in which students living in residence halls can exchange their standard (incandescent) light bulbs for free low-energy compact fluorescents. The schedule for the exchange is: September 10-11 at Laurel, Volunteer, and Clement Halls; Sept 15-16 at Massey, Greve, and Hess Halls; and Sept 17-18 at Reese, North Carrick, South Carrick, and Humes Halls. For more information on Make Orange Green and "Make Orange Green Week," click here.

Career Services Fall Job Fair

Career Services is hosting their annual Fall Job Fair on Tuesday, September 16, 2008 from 10:00 AM until 3:00 PM in Thompson-Boling Arena. Students from all majors are encouraged to attend this free job fair. Click here for more information and for a list of employers coming to the Fall Job Fair.

Chancellor Forums

Students are welcome and encouraged to attend the forums for the remaining chancellor candidates. The final forum for Dr. Jennie Hunter-Cevera is 3:15 PM today, Wednesday, September 10, in the University Center Auditorium. Forums for Dr. Ellen Wartella are September 15-16, and forums for Dr. Howard Johnson are September 18-19. Finally, forums for Dr. Jimmy Cheek are Sept. 24-25. Forums will be webcast. Click here for more information.

Love United Gospel Choir

Love United Gospel Choir (LUGC) holds practices Friday evenings at 7:00 PM at the Black Cultural Center. LUGC encourages all students from all races, ethnic backgrounds and paths to join for the sole purpose of ministering through song. Besides singing, the Love United Gospel Choir and its members continuously serve the UT campus and Knoxville community. Visit http://web.utk.edu/~lugc/ for more information on Love United Gospel Choir.

Pre-Game Faculty Showcase Kicks Off Saturday

UT's College of Arts and Sciences continues its Pre-Game Faculty Showcase series this football season. These 45-minute informative, entertaining presentations feature all-stars of the UT Knoxville College of Arts and Sciences faculty. Each presentation is free and open to the public and begins two hours prior to kick-off in the University Center Ballroom, Room 213. Complimentary light refreshments are provided. The first showcase takes place prior to the Volunteers' home opener against the University of Alabama-Birmingham on Saturday, September 13, 2008 and will feature Wesley Baldwin, associate professor in the Cello Studio in the School of Music and is entitled "Brazilian-Bach Fusion: The Music of Villa-Lobos."

THE UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE PARENTS ASSOCIATION
412 STUDENT SERVICES BUILDING, KNOXVILLE, TN 37996
http://parents.utk.edu :: parents@utk.edu