TBA Law Blog


Posted by: Julia Wilburn on Sep 20, 2023

Tennessee State University (TSU) President Glenda Glover is urging the state to provide additional funding to address a decades-long shortfall. A 2021 report found that the state had underfunded TSU by $544 million in matching funds for land grant institutions. A recent letter from the U.S. departments of education and agriculture highlighted that historically Black land grant institutions like TSU had been significantly shortchanged compared to predominantly white land grant universities, leading to a "severe financial gap" of over $2.1 billion for TSU from 1987 to 2020. The Tennessee Lookout reports that the university is calling for the state to address this disparity over several years in its budget.