Graduate student workers are rallying at Vanderbilt University Wednesday to protest unaffordable housing.
Nashville marching bands — their legacy and future
Nashville is home to one of the nation’s most prominent HBCU marching bands, The Aristocrat of Bands at Tennessee State University. We’ll discuss their new studio album and hear from the next generation of marching band leaders.
One Nashville borrower on what Biden’s student debt forgiveness means for her
Tennesseans carry more than $30 billion in student loan debt. But President Biden’s forgiveness plan announced Wednesday will make a dent in that figure.
Staffing shortages are plaguing Tennessee HBCUs, and that’s making it harder for students to graduate
Like many K-12 schools across the state, Tennessee’s historically Black colleges are in a staffing crisis. It’s a years-long problem that has affected how fast students can get their financial aid and housing applications processed.
First images from NASA’s James Webb Telescope will be shared with researchers and students in Middle Tennessee
The images will be of particular interest to a team of researchers and students from Vanderbilt, Fisk University and Tennessee State University, who will be analyzing them alongside NASA scientists.
TSU will give full rides to 100 Nashville students interested in high-demand fields
The scholarships will total up to $9 million.
‘I know it has been a long hard road’: Vice President Kamala Harris addresses pandemic, politics in TSU commencement speech
Vice President Kamala Harris gave a commencement speech to graduates at Tennessee State University on Saturday. The speech did not shy away from all the soon-to-be graduates faced in recent years and the realities of the world they’re now entering.
Black males aren’t graduating with their peers from Tennessee colleges. What are the solutions?
The six-year graduation rate for Black males at public colleges is at least 20 percentage points below the rates of their peers each year, according to the Tennessee Higher Education Commission.
Nashville native and countertenor Patrick Dailey finally steps onto the city’s biggest classical stage
Nashville native Patrick Dailey is an opera singer who has performed internationally to great acclaim. Now after several years of singing, teaching and collaborating here, Dailey is making his performance debut with the Nashville Symphony as a soloist in Handel’s Messiah.
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