News Sentinel: UT athletics board should reopen its meetings to public

By |2014-04-09T16:56:53-05:00January 27, 2014|Categories: Open Meetings|Tags: , , |0 Comments

The Knoxville News Sentinel published this editorial on Friday, Jan. 24, 2014, following a Jan. 19 story about the closed UT Athletics Board meetings by News Sentinel reporter Megan Boehnke. The editorial is reprinted here with permission: The University of Tennessee's Athletics Department is not so far removed from an NCAA investigation and a million-dollar budget deficit that it can thumb its nose at the public about what it is up to. Yet that appears to be the position of the UT Athletics Board, which has chosen to deny the public access to its meetings, has stopped keeping minutes and has not provided written reports or recommendations to the athletics director.  Last [...]