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.
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.
2023 Key Metrics Baselines
Highlights and Success
Launched New Agriculture-based PhD Program in Fall 2025
Students interested in addressing complex issues related to food, agriculture, natural resources and human sciences now have a new choice for their advanced education through the Department of Agricultural Leadership, Education and Communications
The Farmer’s Dog Funds Veterinary Nutrition Residency at the University of Tennessee
The Farmer’s Dog, the leading fresh pet food company dedicated to helping dogs live longer, healthier lives, is sponsoring a veterinary nutrition residency at the University of Tennessee College of Veterinary Medicine — home to the nation’s leading veterinary obesity clinic.
Smith Global Leadership Fellows Program Expands Opportunities for Faculty
The Smith Center for International Sustainable Agriculture launched its Global Leadership Fellows Program to enable UTIA faculty to expand their research, enhance their teaching skills, and strengthen community outreach on a global scale.
UT Extension to Lead Value-Added Dairy Experiential Learning Course in Southeast
Dairy farmers, value-added dairy producer-processors, and industry partners from Tennessee, North Carolina, Kentucky, and other southeastern states were invited to become part of a Southeast Dairy Business Innovation Initiative (SDBII) experiential learning course.