Randy Boyd often thinks back to the day he first set foot on the University of Tennessee campus in Knoxville 47 years ago.
He was the first in his family to go to college, and he enrolled despite his dad telling him he didn’t need a college degree. As Boyd carved his own path, he said, his UT education changed his life, along with the way he saw the world. It also opened doors for his career as an entrepreneur, nonprofit leader and public official before he was named the UT System president in 2018.