Lamar Alexander delivered a keynote ... We are all Americans.'" Alexander previously served as the U.S. secretary of education and as a faculty member in Harvard University’s John F.

KNOXVILLE, Tenn. — Lamar Alexander, a former United States senator from Tennessee, Secretary of Education and University of Tennessee system president, described the current American political ...

The University of Tennessee at Knoxville will give honorary degrees this year to two important state figures, one who served as a U.S. senator and another who fought for equal rights in education.