Invest in the Future.
As our community seeks to ensure access to healthcare for people of all ages, we also face the greatest need for exceptional nurses. The University of Tennessee at Chattanooga has a mission and responsibility to serve the greater Chattanooga community.
That’s where the Dorothy and Jim Kennedy Health Sciences Building will help us meet that mission. But to do so, we need your help.
GIVE TODAYThe New Home for Nursing
As our community seeks to ensure access to healthcare for people of all ages, we are also faced with the greatest need for exceptional nurses. The University of Tennessee at Chattanooga has a mission and responsibility to serve the greater Chattanooga community.
As Chattanooga’s regional educational center for nurses and advanced practice registered nurses, UTC School of Nursing meets an urgent need throughout our region.
The only thing holding us back from producing even more talented nurses is simply space.
From the day the doors open, the new Dorothy and Jim Kennedy Health Sciences Building will be a hub for healthcare innovation and nursing education for our entire community and allow UTC to produce a steady pipeline of nursing graduates to help meet our regional workforce needs.
The future home of the UTC School of Nursing, the Dorothy and Jim Kennedy Health Sciences Building is slated to begin construction in the fall of 2024 and open its doors in 2026.
With a generous gift of $8 million from the Kennedy Foundation, Inc. the single largest gift to the UTC School of Nursing, the Dorothy and Jim Kennedy Health Sciences Building is named after the parents of the current Kennedy Foundation trustees and will be the first building at UTC to be named after an alumna.
The Dorothy and Jim Kennedy Health Sciences Building has an approximately $80 million cost that will be funded through a combination of donations and state resources with a building campaign goal of $21 million.
With the gracious support of the Kennedy Foundation and other donors, we are on our way to the $21 million dollar goal. Yet, we still need your support to help us get there and support future nurses in our community. With your support, we will transform and define the future of nursing education and clinical care.
We can empower nurse leaders who will make critical decisions and save lives. But to do this, we need you.
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A Monumental Gift to UTC’s School of Nursing
With a generous gift of $8 million from the Kennedy Foundation, Inc. the single largest gift to the UTC School of Nursing, the Dorothy and Jim Kennedy Health Sciences Building is named after the parents of the current Kennedy Foundation trustees and will be the first building at UTC to be named after an alumna.
Read More about The Kennedy’s Gift Here
UTC’s School of Nursing Achievements
#1 BSN in Tennessee for 2023 by Nurse.org
97% 5 Year Average NCLEX Licensure Pass Rate
100% Employment Rate After Graduation
100% Pass Rate on NCLEX Licensure Exam for May 2024 Graduates
Thank you for placing your trust in us—and that we will continue to educate and graduate the best-prepared nurses in the area. We know that health care facilities are counting on us to continue to achieve the high standards we have set. We’re ready to fill our end of the bargain.
Dr. Chris Smith, PhD, APRN, FNP-BC
Director, UTC School of Nursing
Kennedy Health Sciences Building Highlights
90,000 gross square feet
The state of the art building will be located at the corner of Palmetto & East 3rd Streets.
For Students
“Collision” spaces, study areas and flexible state-of-the-art T.E.A.L. classrooms.
For Staff
Open offices with collaboration zones.
In the Lab
Cutting-edge high-fidelity simulation lab
Dorothy and Jim Kennedy Health Sciences Building Breaks Ground
In early November 2024 with a host of School of Nursing faculty, staff and students along with campus leadership, elected officials, local healthcare leaders and more, UTC broke ground on the new home for the School of Nursing.
This was an incredible milestone in the journey to create an exceptional home for nursing education in the Chattanooga region.
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Ready to learn more?
Contact Brittney Holder, Director of Development, or download the Health Sciences Building Campaign Booklet.
