Institute News

  • IPS Celebrates 50 Years

    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.