KNOXVILLE, TENNESSEE – The second installment of the Howard H. Baker School of Public Policy and Public Affairs’ (Baker School) fall lecture series will put economics in focus at 5:30 p.m. in the Toyota Auditorium on Wednesday, September 25. American Enterprise Institute Director of Economic Policy Studies Michael Strain will debate independent columnist Matt Yglesias […]
Knoxville, Tennessee – The Institute of American Civics at the University of Tennessee’s Howard H. Baker Jr. School of Public Policy and Public Affairs will host Keith E. Whittington, the David Boies Professor of Law at Yale Law School, on September 17, 2024, at 5:30 p.m. This is the first of the Baker School’s fall […]
To kick off the new season, our hosts, former Tennessee Governors Phil Bredesen and Bill Haslam, speak with Rachel Kleinfeld, an international relations scholar and senior fellow in the Democracy, Conflict and Governance program at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, about what the research says about the roots and repercussions of polarization in American […]
Knoxville, TN – Over one hundred policymakers, academics, and private industry experts gathered for the second annual Southeast Energy Policy Forum presented by the Center for Energy, Transportation and Environmental Policy (CETEP) at the Howard H. Baker Jr. School of Public Policy and Public Affairs (Baker School) on August 14 and 15. Former Deputy Secretary […]
From the time seven-year-old Faith Barrett found her mother’s battered baton in the garage, she was hooked. Barrett began baton twirling at her local YMCA and the medals and trophies stacked up as she continued to compete, including state and national championships. Baton twirling is a discipline that combines gymnastics and dance while using a […]