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Higher Education

Metro leaders seek to renovate Antioch’s neglected mall into a health care facility and hub for residents

By Damon Mitchell

March 24, 2022

The development would come with an upfront price tag of $44 million.

Filed Under: Health Care, Metro, WPLN News Tagged With: economy, Hickory Hollow Mall, Higher Education, jobs, Labor, Nashville State Community College

At neglected TSU campus, students want a greater say over incoming funds

By Damon Mitchell

March 17, 2022

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They’re pushing for better faculty pay and funding to make the campus safe for students went disabilities.

Filed Under: Education, WPLN News Tagged With: HBCU, Higher Education, Tennessee State University, TSU

TSU is set to receive $250 million under Gov. Lee’s funding proposal. Now lawmakers want a way to track how the money is spent.

By Damon Mitchell

March 11, 2022

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Tennessee State University has more than $300 million dollars in deferred maintenance needs.

Filed Under: Education, Politics, Race & Equity, WPLN News Tagged With: HBCU, Higher Education, Tennessee Legislature, Tennessee State University, TSU

Gov. Lee proposes $250 million for infrastructure projects at TSU, following decades of underfunding

By Damon MitchellandBlaise Gainey

February 3, 2022

Last year, a report from the Tennessee Office of Legislative Budget Analysis showed that Tennessee State University could be owed nearly a half-billion dollars.

Filed Under: Education, Race & Equity, WPLN News Tagged With: HBCU, Higher Education, Tennessee State University

Biden’s latest student loan repayment pause grants temporary relief to Tennesseeans

By Juliana Kim

December 28, 2021

Tennessee students say they’re breathing a sigh of relief, since President Biden announced student loan repayment will be paused until May 2022.

Filed Under: Education, WPLN News Tagged With: college, Higher Education, student loans

As Nashville’s Latino population grows, so do the efforts to boost representation on college campuses

By Damon Mitchell

November 16, 2021

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In the past five years, Belmont University has grown its Latino population from under 400 to over 600 students. This fall, nearly 10% of Lipscomb’s undergraduate students identify as Latino.

Filed Under: Education, Race & Equity, WPLN News Tagged With: Belmont University, Education, Higher Education, Latino, Lipscomb University, undocumented students

Nashville education advocates want the state to pay its half-billion dollar tab to TSU, with no strings attached

By Damon Mitchell

November 4, 2021

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The Education Trust in Tennessee says decisions on how to spend the money should be left up to TSU students, faculty, staff and alumni.

Filed Under: Education, Race & Equity, WPLN News Tagged With: HBCU, Higher Education, Tennessee State University

How decades of underfunding harms TSU students and hurts graduation rates

By Damon Mitchell

October 13, 2021

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Tennessee State University is the state’s only public historically Black college. The university also has the lowest Black student completion rate of any public four-year university in the state.

Filed Under: Education, Race & Equity, WPLN News Tagged With: HBCU, Higher Education, Tennessee State University

Education Officials Propose Plan To Make Up For Years Of Underfunding At TSU

By Damon Mitchell

September 14, 2021

Tennessee lawmakers are now one step closer to making up for past funding issues with the state’s only public historically Black college, Tennessee State University. The state may have shorted the college upwards of $500 million. 

Filed Under: Education, WPLN News Tagged With: HBCU, Higher Education, Tennessee Higher Education Commission, Tennessee State University, TSU

Why Many Tennessee Students Aren’t Going To College, Despite Free Tuition

By Damon Mitchell

September 1, 2021

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Roughly 40% of Tennessee seniors take steps to enroll in college, but don’t follow through in the fall.

Filed Under: Education, WPLN News Tagged With: community college, Education, Higher Education, Tennessee Promise

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