The University of Tennessee Center for Industrial Services (CIS) is introducing CONNEX Tennessee, a new program launching June 22, which is designed to strengthen the local and domestic manufacturing supply chain.
Kim Harmon, a long-time State of Tennessee employee, will serve as the next executive director of the Naifeh Center for Effective Leadership, an agency of The University of Tennessee Institute for Public Service (IPS). Harmon succeeds the previous director Dr. Macel Ely who is now in the role of director of organizational improvement for IPS. Her Naifeh Center tenure begins Feb. 1.
The UT Institute for Public Service (IPS) has named Jon Walden as executive director of the County Technical Assistance Service (CTAS). Walden has served for a year as interim director of the agency following the retirement of Robin Roberts.
You’ve Come a Long Way, Baby: The Evolution of IPS
Fifty years. Six current agencies. More than $1.43 billion annual benefit to the state economy.
Since its creation in 1971, the Institute for Public Service (IPS) has amassed an impressive history of outreach, taking UT’s experts and expertise into communities statewide to improve government, industry, law enforcement and others. From the start, its end-goal has remained the same: improving the lives of Tennesseans.