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The school is $1.8 million in debt, according to Knoxville College's most recently filed Form 990 (an Internal Revenue Service form for tax-exempt organizations), The college also owes the city of ...
Knoxville College, a historically Black institution of higher education, has appointed Rotesha Harris as its president. Her goal, the college wrote in a news release, is to regain the ...
The aftermath of the Nov. 4 fire that destroyed Knoxville College's 126-year-old Elnathan Hall has stirred up questions about the college's future. The historically Black college's nearly 150-year ...
Knoxville College announced a new plan Friday to reopen the school with new education standards. It is partnering with the University of Tennessee for help through the reaccreditation process ...
Knoxville College will receive $200,000 towards renovating its workforce development building, according to city leaders. It will also get help on strategizing how to reopen and attract students ...
Frank Shanklin Jr., a member of Knoxville College's Board of Trustees, told WBIR that the former administration building has not been used in the last 40 or 50 years.
KNOXVILLE, Tenn. (WATE) — This week, Knoxville College President Leonard L. Adams announced his intention to step down. Adams had been named president of the college in 2021, and his departure ...
I n the evening of November 4 in Knoxville, Tenn., firefighters hurried to a largely empty campus. Knoxville College was on fire again. Plumes of smoke could be seen across the city as flames ...
At Knoxville College's 1960 commencement ceremony, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. spoke to the graduates, along with a crowd of about 1,000, the News Sentinel reported in May of that year.
Knoxville College is East Tennessee's only HBCU and has played an important role in education in the Southeast. A decade after the 13th Amendment abolished slavery in the U.S., ...