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TSU

How much has Tennessee State University been underfunded? Here are 4 calculations

By Emily SinerandCamellia Burris

December 18, 2025

The exact amount of underfunding of HBCUs is vast, hard to calculate, and even harder to make a political case for.

Filed Under: Education, WPLN News Tagged With: George Floyd, Harold Love Jr., president biden, Rep. Harold Love, Tennessee State University, TSU, University of Tennessee

How Harold Love secured the largest-ever funding boom for TSU — and what comes next

By Camellia Burris

December 17, 2025

Some 50 years after efforts by his father, state Rep. Harold Love provided proof to lawmakers that the state underfunded TSU.

Filed Under: Education, WPLN News Tagged With: Cameron Sexton, George Floyd, Gov. Bill Lee, Harold Love Jr., House Speaker Cameron Sexton, Rep. Harold Love, Tennessee State University, TSU, University of Tennessee

TSU touts financial progress as state audit points to past problems

By Camellia Burris

December 16, 2025

While a recent state audit highlighted administrative issues under Tennessee State University’s former leadership, TSU’s new president stresses that the school is now on track to improve its financial future.

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

Long before fights over DEI, a judge told Tennessee State University to lose its Black identity

By Emily Siner

December 16, 2025

In the early 1980s, Tennessee State University was at a turning point.

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

Almost 60 years ago, a court case at TSU transformed Tennessee higher education

By Emily Siner

December 15, 2025

What happens when government funding is withheld from a public university that’s served generations of Black Tennesseans? And what could be possible if that debt were finally paid?

Filed Under: Education, WPLN News Tagged With: Jefferson Street, Tennessee State University, TSU, University of Tennessee

TSU reaches agreement to reallocate $96 million for university operations

By Camellia Burris

June 17, 2025

Tennessee State University has reached an agreement with the state of Tennessee reallocates $96 million to support its operational needs.

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

TSU’s next round of cost-saving measures will be less painful than recent layoffs

By Char Daston

November 23, 2024

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Tennessee State University is announcing further cost-saving measures to keep from running out of money by the end of the school year. This comes after the school laid off more than 100 employees earlier this fall.

Filed Under: Education, WPLN News Tagged With: HBCU, tennessee state legislature, Tennessee State University, TSU

NashVillager Podcast: TSU’s downtown presence and the man who secured it

By Nina Cardona

August 29, 2024

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What does Tennessee State do with its downtown campus? Plus the local news for August 29, 2024.

Filed Under: Education, History, NashVillager Podcast, WPLN News Tagged With: Tennessee State University, TSU, University of Tennessee

Tennessee House kills bill that would have banned local officials from studying, funding reparations

By Kimberlee Kruesi, APandJonathan Mattise, AP

April 27, 2024

Tennessee’s Republican-dominant House has spiked legislation that would have banned local governments from paying to study or dispense money for reparations for slavery. The move marked a rare defeat on a GOP-backed proposal initially introduced nearly one year ago.

Filed Under: Politics, Race & Equity, WPLN News Tagged With: 113th Tennessee General Assembly, Associated Press, enslaved people, reparations, slavery, Tennessee State University, tnleg, tnpol, TSU, Tyre Nichols

Student reporter roundup

By Mary Mancini

April 16, 2024

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Today, we’re hosting a reporter roundup — student edition!

Filed Under: Education, Programs Tagged With: journalism, Middle Tennessee State University, MTSU, Tennessee State University, Tennessee Tech, Tennessee Tech University, TSU

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