{"id":25704,"date":"2019-03-14T15:04:39","date_gmt":"2019-03-14T19:04:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogarchive.utc.edu\/news\/?p=25704"},"modified":"2019-04-30T14:32:24","modified_gmt":"2019-04-30T18:32:24","slug":"utc-dean-wins-first-ever-ut-presidents-award-for-diversity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogarchive.utc.edu\/news\/2019\/03\/utc-dean-wins-first-ever-ut-presidents-award-for-diversity\/","title":{"rendered":"UTC dean wins first-ever UT President\u2019s Award for Diversity"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_25708\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" ><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"750\" height=\"601\" data-attachment-id=\"25708\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/blogarchive.utc.edu\/news\/2019\/03\/utc-dean-wins-first-ever-ut-presidents-award-for-diversity\/pietro-reception-18\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/blogarchive.utc.edu\/news\/files\/2019\/03\/Rutledgev.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"750,601\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;3.2&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;Angela Foster&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;NIKON D750&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;Reception for outgoing UT President Joe Dipietro, Wednesday, Nov. 14, 2018 in the Tennessee Room of the University Center.&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;1542153600&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;University of Tennessee at Chattanooga&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;70&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;1600&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0.008&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;Pietro Reception-18&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;1&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"Pietro Reception-18\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"&lt;p&gt;Reception for outgoing UT President Joe Dipietro, Wednesday, Nov. 14, 2018 in the Tennessee Room of the University Center.&lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/blogarchive.utc.edu\/news\/files\/2019\/03\/Rutledgev.jpg\" class=\"wp-image-25708\" src=\"https:\/\/blogarchive.utc.edu\/news\/files\/2019\/03\/Rutledgev.jpg\" alt=\"\" style=\"max-width: 100%;\"style=\"max-width: 100%;\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogarchive.utc.edu\/news\/files\/2019\/03\/Rutledgev.jpg 750w, https:\/\/blogarchive.utc.edu\/news\/files\/2019\/03\/Rutledgev-300x240.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogarchive.utc.edu\/news\/files\/2019\/03\/Rutledgev-580x465.jpg 580w, https:\/\/blogarchive.utc.edu\/news\/files\/2019\/03\/Rutledgev-610x489.jpg 610w, https:\/\/blogarchive.utc.edu\/news\/files\/2019\/03\/Rutledgev-250x200.jpg 250w, https:\/\/blogarchive.utc.edu\/news\/files\/2019\/03\/Rutledgev-499x400.jpg 499w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 750px) 100vw, 750px\" \/><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Valerie Rutledge was named to her current post as dean of the College of Health, Education and Professional Studies in 2013, following a decade as director of the UTC School of Education.<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"well span3 pull-right\">\n<h3><\/h3>\n<h3>President&#8217;s Award recipients<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>DIVERSITY<\/strong>\u00a0\u2014 <strong>Valerie Rutledge<\/strong>, dean of the College of Health, Education and Professional Studies at UTC<\/li>\n<li><strong>EDUCATE<\/strong>\u00a0\u2014 <strong>Rapinder \u201cRupy\u201d Sawhney,<\/strong> UT Knoxville professor in industrial and systems engineering<\/li>\n<li><strong>DISCOVER \u2014 Karen Johnson<\/strong>, UT Health Science Center College of Medicine endowed professor of women\u2019s health<\/li>\n<li><strong>CONNECT<\/strong>\u00a0\u2014\u00a0<strong>Sarah Hillyer,<\/strong> director of the Center for Sport, Peace and Society in the UT Knoxville College of Education, Health and Human Sciences<\/li>\n<li><strong>SUPPORT<\/strong>\u00a0\u2014 <strong>Kathy Gibbs<\/strong>, assistant vice chancellor for student academic support services and inclusion at the UT Health Science Center<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>For more information, go to: <a href=\"https:\/\/president.tennessee.edu\/awards\/2019-honorees-and-nominees\/\">https:\/\/president.tennessee.edu\/awards\/2019-honorees-and-nominees\/<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Valerie Rutledge doesn\u2019t just talk about the value of diversity; her actions demonstrate her commitment, and her leadership has won the first-ever UT President\u2019s Award for support of diversity.<\/p>\n<p>The award category makes its debut in this year\u2019s UT President\u2019s Awards, a statewide employee recognition program launched in 2015 to honor one winner for each of the UT system-wide mission focus areas of education, research and outreach. A category to recognize employee contributions in support of fulfilling the statewide UT system mission was added in 2017.<\/p>\n<p>Nominees come from the more than 12,000 employees of UT system-affiliated enterprises statewide. Rutledge was among a total of five honored at UT President\u2019s Awards presentation in Nashville on Thursday, March 14. Interim UT President Randy Boyd recognized the award recipients at a luncheon in their honor prior to making the fourth annual State of the University address.<\/p>\n<p>As dean of the College of Health, Education and Professional Studies at the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga, Rutledge in 2018 coordinated a strategic drive to increase recruitment, retention and promotion of underrepresented minority faculty at UTC.<\/p>\n<p>UTC Chancellor Steve Angle nominated Rutledge for the 2019 UT President\u2019s Award, noting \u201cher ever-present smile, enthusiastic attitude and never-ending devotion to increase UTC\u2019s goal of welcoming a broad mixture of people, ideas and attitudes,\u201d adding that \u201cValerie Rutledge embodies\u201d the highest degree of commitment to diversity of opportunity and experience.<\/p>\n<p>Rutledge insists the award is not hers alone, saying it \u201crepresents all of those across our many branches who work daily to develop an atmosphere that values everyone.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis award is evidence of the efforts on each campus across our system to celebrate the diverse dimensions of our students, our colleagues, and our communities,\u201d she says.<\/p>\n<p>As chair of the UTC Diversity Advisory Committee and a proponent of diversity and inclusion in the entire UTC campus community, from students to faculty to staff, Rutledge leads ongoing review of documents, policies and practices to ensure the university\u2019s continued progress toward a campus that is welcoming, inclusive and offers a diverse environment for living, learning and working.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn higher education, one of our responsibilities is to help foster opportunities for all individuals to succeed and to be a repository of new and creative ideas,\u201d she says. \u201cThe variety of races, values, cultures, abilities, interests, lifestyles and ideas represented on our campuses is a vital part of how we establish an atmosphere which creates not just acceptance of, but value for diversity, equity, and inclusion of all persons.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn the words of Ron Harris, keynote speaker at the 2017 UT Inclusive Excellence Summit, \u2018We are One, but together we are better.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In October, Rutledge was a featured presenter at the 2018 Women in Leadership Higher Education National Diversity Congress held at Harvard University. She partnered with UTC\u2019s Elizabeth Crawford, director of the School of Professional Studies, in their joint presentation, \u201cMentoring Women Toward Success.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Rutledge was named to her current post as dean in 2013, following a decade as director of the UTC School of Education. She earned bachelor\u2019s and master\u2019s degrees in secondary education at UTC and a doctoral degree in higher education leadership at UT Knoxville.<\/p>\n<p>Prior to joining UTC, Rutledge was an award-winning public school teacher, including double honors in 1986 as both Hamilton County Teacher of the Year and Tennessee High School Teacher of the Year. She was a 2015 Woman of Distinction honoree at the 30<sup>th<\/sup> anniversary presentation of the annual recognition by the American Lung Association for \u201ccivic, cultural, philanthropic, human service, environmental or professional commitments.\u201d She has served as a member of the boards of directors of multiple area medical institutions, nonprofit and government agencies.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Valerie Rutledge&#8217;s leadership as dean in the College of Health, Education and Professional Studies has earned her the first-ever UT President\u2019s Award for support of diversity.<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-wrap\"><span><a class=\"more-link button text\" href=\"https:\/\/blogarchive.utc.edu\/news\/2019\/03\/utc-dean-wins-first-ever-ut-presidents-award-for-diversity\/\"><span>Continue Reading <\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1300,"featured_media":25708,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_slider":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_featurette":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[64],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-25704","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"entry"},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.6 - 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