Deliver high-quality, relevant learning experiences.
High-quality, relevant learning experiences are transformative and foster deeper understanding, critical thinking, and skill development. These experiences are thoughtfully designed to align with learners’ needs, interests, and real-world applications.
Highlights and Success
Herbert Students Gain Field Experience at Zoo Knoxville
The partnership engages UT students in learning about the habitat needs of exotic creatures in a new course called FORS 492: Practicum in Forestry. In the course, students partner with Zoo Knoxville to inventory current plant species for the safety of its animals, staff, and visitors.
Making Cents of it All
Family and Consumer Sciences faculty and Extension specialists and agents say they see firsthand the benefits of teaching money management and planning.
Read About UT Extension’s Role in Financial Literacy Across Generations
How AI is Shaping Future Food Scientists
Generative artificial intelligence is changing the landscape of higher education. While concerns about the misuse of AI increase, faculty seek to shift the mindset in Herbert classrooms toward using AI as a tool for learning.
2026 UTIA Field Days for Farmers and Homeowners Across Tennessee
This year brings a full slate of field days for 2026. More than twenty field days will be hosted mostly at UT AgResearch and Education Centers throughout the state, and UTIA researchers and UT Extension specialists will speak about their areas of expertise.
2023 Key Metrics Baselines
Strategies and Actions
UTIA will expand access to online learning.
- Increase the number of online courses and credentialing as well as continuing education programs (degree seeking and non-degree seeking).
- Increase number of participants enrolled in online learning (degree seeking and non-degree seeking).
- Increasing access to online information and resources for self-guided learning.
UTIA will expand access to residential and face-to-face engagement.
- Increase in residential retention and graduation rates.
- Increase the residential students.
- Increase participation in face-to-face Extension and outreach programs.
UTIA will provide quality, relevant learning experiences.
- Increase number of and participation in experiential learning opportunities or high-impact experiences locally and globally.
- Increase number of opportunities available for stakeholders, leaders, and constituents to provide feedback on program relevancy and needs.
- Increase number of teaching and learning professional development opportunities offered for and attended by personnel.
- Increase study abroad participation.
UTIA will build connections with new audiences.
- Increase access to a broader audience with respect to demographics and workforce categories.
- Increase number of national and international participants in our programs.
- Increase partner engagement in developing new programs for an ever-changing landscape.