Financial Partnerships

Several OIT partnership-based financial services deserve highlighting in 2024: Tech Fee Awards, distributed software savings, scholarships, and TeamDynamix IT service management.
Technology Fee Advisory Board
The Technology Fee supports the University’s mission by providing UT Knoxville students with improved access to the technological infrastructure, resources, and services, enhancing the student educational experience.
Tech Fee Awards
OIT and the Technology Fee Advisory Board partnered to distribute approximately 1 million in funding to UTK colleges across campus, allowing colleges to purchase technologies that enhance students’ experiences and success.
Learn more about Technology Fee Advisory Board Services.
Software Availability at Substantial Cost Savings
The University provides many software packages to students, including Microsoft Office, Windows 11, LinkedIn Learning, Qualtrics, and a full research stack. By leveraging OIT’s buying power, we save the academic research community $32.7 million in software expenditures, including $19.2 million for students.
Learn more about Academic Research Software.
Research Community
Students
OIT Sponsored Scholarships
The UT General Scholarship Committee and OIT awarded five $1000 scholarships each for the 2024-2025 academic year.
OIT Scholarship Fund
Each Recipient must be the dependent of a current OIT employee.
Civil Engineering
Biomedical Engineering
Martha Bowen Scholarship
Recipients are selected from the pool of current OIT student employees who demonstrate successful academic performance and willingness to work to support themselves through school.
Sociology
Social Work;
and Child
and Family Studies
Supply Chain
Management
TeamDynamix Partnerships
In 2024, OIT onboarded the College of Nursing, Facility Services, and University Libraries onto TeamDynamix (TDX), enabling these departments to streamline operations, track activities, and deliver enhanced services to their respective UT campus communities.
Shared Resources for IT Service Management
and escalation for their areas
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