Nashville, Tenn. – The fifth annual Vanderbilt Roads Scholars Tour rolls out on Wednesday, Aug. 16, taking Chancellor Gordon Gee and about 50 faculty, senior administrators, staff and student leaders to Middle and East Tennessee. Initiated in 2002, also with a trip to East Tennessee, the annual tour is designed to welcome new faculty and to familiarize them and others in Vanderbilt community with the university’s ties and partnerships in the region.
The tour has since traveled to West Tennessee, Alabama and Kentucky.
Traveling on a bus – emblazoned with “Vanderbilt Roads Scholars Tour” – the entourage will make the two-day trip with visits to Lightning Source, a division of Ingram Industries Incorporated in La Vergne, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, the Knoxville Museum of Art, the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Scripps Networks, Maryville High School, Tennessee Technological University’s Appalachian Center for Craft and Vanderbilt’s Squirrel Camp, an outdoor freshman orientation program on Percy Priest Lake.
WHAT: Vanderbilt Chancellor Gordon Gee, along with new and newly tenured faculty, students and administrators, leave for a two-day tour of Middle and East Tennessee
WHERE: Vanderbilt University’s Office of Community, Neighborhood and Government Relations, 2007 Terrace Place Scottsville, Kentucky 6
WHEN: Wednesday, Aug. 16. Registration and breakfast, 6:30-7:10 a.m. Group photo, 7:15 a.m. Departure promptly at 7:30 a.m.
Roads Scholars Tour 2006 Itinerary
Day One – Wednesday, August 16
6:30 – 7:10 a.m. CST
Registration and Breakfast for Roads Scholars Tour participants at the Community,
Neighborhood and Government Relations House, 2007 Terrace Place
7:15 a.m. CST
Group picture of the Roads Scholars Tour participants
7:30 a.m. CST
Depart from Vanderbilt
8:00 a.m. CST
Arrive at the Lightning Source
La Vergne, Tenn.
9:20 a.m. CST
Depart from Lightning Source
12:50 p.m. EST
Arrive at Oak Ridge National Lab
Oak Ridge, Tenn.
1:00 p.m. EST
Lunch and tour of ORNL campus
3:30 p.m. EST
Depart from ORNL
4:25 p.m. EST
Arrive at and tour Knoxville Museum of Art
Knoxville, Tenn.
5:45 p.m. EST
Depart from Knoxville Museum of Art
5:50 p.m. EST
Arrive Cumberland House Hotel, Knoxville
7:00 p.m. EST
Depart from Cumberland House Hotel to UTK Knoxville
7:15 p.m. EST
Dinner reception at University of Tennessee, Knoxville
–Thursday, August 17
7:15 a.m. EST
Leave hotel
8:00 a.m. EST
Arrive at and tour Scripps Networks
9:20 a.m. EST
Leave Scripps Networks
10:05 a.m. EST
Arrive at and tour Maryville High School
Maryville, Tenn.
12:10 p.m. EST
Leave Maryville
1:10 p.m. CST
Arrive at and tour Appalachian Center for Craft
Cookeville, Tenn.
2:45 p.m. CST
Depart from Appalachian Center for Craft
4:00 p.m. CST
Arrive and tour Vanderbilt’s Squirrel Camp
Antioch, Tenn.
5:20 p.m. CST
Depart from Squirrel Camp
6:05 p.m. CST
Arrive in Nashville