University of Memphis News

The Memphis City Council's approval of $15 million in city funding for the Crosstown redevelopment project last December was supposed to be the last piece of a $180 million funding puzzle for the mammoth undertaking.

"Tuition Equality Now! All Tennessean students deserve in-state tuition." That's the message for the latest coat of paint on "The Rock" on the University of Tennessee's Knoxville campus.

BLOOMINGTON, Ind. -- Students and faculty from Indiana University's acclaimed IU Soul Revue are traveling to Memphis, Tenn., over spring break to work with talented local youths, including those at the Stax Music Academy, an educational program that continues the tradition of the historic record label.

If University of Memphis freshman forward Austin Nichols isn't named the American Athletic Conference Rookie of the Year when the league announces its individual regular-season awards Wednesday, coach Josh Pastner says he'll go to "the highest level of government" and demand an internal investigation.

Under the proposal, a student could express beliefs about religion in homework, artwork and other written and oral assignments free from discrimination based on the religious content.

Global Ministries Fellowship has purchased a 396-unit apartment complex near the University of Memphis for nearly $3.9 million.

The weekly honors continue to roll in for University of Memphis freshman forward Austin Nichols, who was named the American Athletic Conference's Rookie of the Week for a third consecutive week Monday.

Former University of Alabama president Guy Bailey, who served for 57 days before resigning in 2012, is one of four finalists vying for the presidency at the University of Memphis.

The Commercial Appeal reported that the Tennessee Board of Regents selected M. David Rudd, provost at the University of Memphis; George Hynd, provost and executive vice president for academic affairs at the College of Charleston; Sharon Gaber, provost and vice chancellor for academic affairs at the University of Arkansas; and Guy Bailey, former ... (more)

The Commercial Appeal reported that the Tennessee Board of Regents selected M. David Rudd, provost at the University of Memphis; George Hynd, provost and executive vice president for academic affairs at the College of Charleston; Sharon Gaber, provost and vice chancellor for academic affairs at the University of Arkansas; and Guy Bailey, former ... (more)

Elokin CaPece, education director for Planned Parenthood Greater Memphis Region, is "offering students the opportunity to become educators and advocates for sexual health and safety on college campuses throughout the MidSouth."

A 15-year-old is charged with the shooting dead of a 13-year-old, but there is a new twist in the case.

Brad Martin, seen here in a file photo, is interim president at the University of Memphis.

The top two officials at the University of Memphis are backing a plan to allow people without legal U.S. residency to pay in-state tuition rates at the school.

Melissa Howard, a student at the University of Memphis, begins a student sing along at the end of the workshop "I'm Every Woman: The History of Women in Soul."

The University of Memphis is providing staff and advisors to Victory University students who will be impacted by the school's closing, which was confirmed earlier today .

The Tennessee Valley Authority has completed a 12-mile, 4-foot-wide underground retaining wall surrounding 240 acres of toxic coal ash more than five years after a catastrophic spill in eastern Tennessee.

By fall, a copy of "12 Years a Slave" and the 1853 memoir on which the movie is based could be in every U.S. public high school.

Planned Parenthood's Elokin CaPece is on a global mission-to make 'sexperts' of students across the mid-south and send them forth to indoctrinate the world.

March 5, 2014 - University of Memphis President Brad Martin speaks during a meeting with The Commercial Appeal editorial board Wednesday.