Tennessee State University

Short description: Public historical black college in Nashville, Tennessee, US

"Tennessee State" redirects here. For the U.S. state, see Tennessee .

Tennessee State University

Former names

| Tennessee Agricultural & Industrial State Normal School for Negroes (1912–1925)
Tennessee Agricultural & Industrial State Normal College (1925–1927)
Tennessee Agricultural & Industrial State College (1927–1968)
Motto| Think. Work. Serve
Type| Public, historically black land-grant university
Established| June 19, 1912; 114 years ago (1912-06-19)

Academic affiliation

* ORAU
* TMCF

Endowment| $91.1 million (2021)[1]
President| Glenda Glover
Provost| Michael Harris (interim)

Academic staff

| 377 full-time & 114 part-time[2]
Students| 9,218 (Fall 2022)[3]
Undergraduates| 7,678 (Fall 2022)
Postgraduates| 1,540 (Fall 2022)
Location|

Nashville

Tennessee

United States

[ ⚑ ] : 36°10′00″N 86°49′50″W﻿ / ﻿36.1666667°N 86.83056°W﻿ / 36.1666667; -86.83056
Campus| Large city
|u}}rs| Blue and white[4]

Nickname| Tigers and Lady Tigers
Website| www.tnstate.edu

Tennessee State University Historic District

U.S. National Register of Historic Places

U.S. Historic district

Location| 3500 John A. Merritt Blvd
Nashville, Tennessee, U.S.
Architect| Marr & Holman, et al.
NRHP reference #| 96000677
Added to NRHP| June 14, 1996

Tennessee State University (Tennessee State, Tenn State, or TSU) is a public historically black land-grant university in Nashville, Tennessee, United States. Founded in 1912, it is the only state-funded historically black university in Tennessee. It is a member-school of the Thurgood Marshall College Fund.[5] Tennessee State University offers 41 bachelor's degrees, 23 master's degrees, and eight doctoral degrees.[6][7] It is classified as "R2: Doctoral Universities – High research activity".[8]

## Contents

* 1 History
* 2 Campus
* 3 Academics
* 4 Student activities
* 4.1 Athletics
* 4.2 Student organizations
* 5 Notable alumni
* 5.1 Aviation
* 5.2 Civil rights
* 5.3 Education
* 5.4 Entertainment
* 5.5 Politics
* 5.6 Science and technology
* 5.7 Sports
* 6 See also
* 7 References
* 8 Further reading
* 9 External links

## History

The university was established as the Tennessee Agricultural & Industrial State Normal School for Negroes in 1912.[9][10] Its dedication was held on January 16, 1913.[9] It changed its name to Tennessee Agricultural & Industrial State Normal College in 1925.[9] Two years later, in 1927, it became known as Tennessee Agricultural & Industrial State College.[9]

In 1941, the Tennessee General Assembly directed the Board of Education to upgrade the educational program of the college. Three years later the first master's degrees were awarded and by 1946 the college was fully accredited the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools.[11]

Significant expansion occurred during the presidency of Walter S. Davis between 1943 and 1968, including the construction of "70 percent of the school's facilities" and the establishment of the graduate school and four other schools.[12]

In 1968, the college officially changed its name to Tennessee State University, and in 1979, the University of Tennessee at Nashville merged into Tennessee State due to a court mandate.[11]

In 2022, Tennessee State University was awarded a historic $250 million from the state legislature as reparations for decades of discriminatory state funding compared to fellow public Tennessee institutions of higher education. The funds will be used to upgrade facilities and academic programs on campus.[13] Tennessee State's $250 million investment is the largest single investment into a historically black institution in the history of the country.[14]

In 2023, Tennessee State's most well known graduate, Oprah Winfrey, served as the official commencement speaker for the first time.[15]

Today, Tennessee State University is divided into eight schools and colleges and has seen steady growth since its inception. It remains the only public university in Nashville and its health science program is the largest in the state and one of the largest in the nation.[16]

Aligned with the Tennessee Board of Regents, it is currently governed by an institutional board of trustees.

## Campus

The 500 acres (2.0 km2) main campus has more than 65 buildings, and is located in a residential setting at 3500 John A. Merritt Blvd in Nashville, Tennessee. Tennessee State's main campus has the most acres of any college campus in Nashville. The Avon Williams campus is located downtown, near the center of the Nashville business and government district. Tennessee State offers on-campus housing to students. There are on-campus dorms and two apartment complexes for upperclassmen. On-campus facilities include dormitories Wilson Hall, Watson Hall, Eppse Hall, Boyd Hall, Rudolph Hall, Hale Hall, as well as the Ford Complex and New Residence Complex, TSU's two on-campus apartment complexes.

## Academics

University rankings

National
U.S. News & World Report[19] | 34 (tie) in Historically Black Colleges and Universities;

293-381 in National Universities [17]

Washington Monthly[20] | 100 [18]

The university is currently accredited by the Commission on Colleges of the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools (SACS) to award 38 baccalaureate degrees, 24 master's degrees, and doctoral degrees in seven areas (Biological Sciences, Computer Information Systems Engineering, Psychology, Public Administration, Curriculum and Instruction, Educational Administration and Supervision, and Physical Therapy), as well as two Associate of Science degree programs, one in nursing and one in dental hygiene.[21]

Tennessee State is classified as "R2: Doctoral Universities – High research activity."[22]

The university is organized into the following colleges:

* College of Agriculture, Human, and Natural Sciences[23]
* College of Business[24]
* College of Education[25]
* College of Engineering[26]
* College of Health Sciences[27]
* College of Liberal Arts[28]
* College of Life and Physical Sciences[29]
* College of Public Service[30]

The University Honors College (UHC) is an exclusive academic program founded in 1964 that caters to select academically talented and highly motivated undergraduate students.[31]

The College of Business is accredited by the Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business (AACSB). It was the first institution in Nashville to earn the accreditation of both its undergraduate and graduate business programs in 1994. The Psychology program is accredited by the American Psychological Association and the Teacher Education program by the National Council for Accreditation of Teacher Education (NCATE).

The College of Engineering has developed corporate partnerships with NASA, Raytheon, and General Motors and is accredited by the Accreditation Board for Engineering and Technology (ABET) and the National Association of Industrial Technology (NAIT).

The College of Health Sciences (formerly the School of Allied Health) includes such programs as the Masters in Physical Therapy and the Bachelor of Health Sciences. The Master of Public Health program was accredited in 2015 by the Council on Education for Public Health (CEPH).[32]

## Student activities

Tennessee State University Tigers wordmark

### Athletics

Tennessee State University sponsors seven men's and eight women's teams in National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) sanctioned sports.[33] The school competes in the NCAA's Division I Football Championship Subdivision and is a member of the Ohio Valley Conference (OVC). As a member of the OVC, Tennessee State is one of three Division I HBCU athletic programs that are not members of either the Mid-Eastern Athletic Conference (MEAC) or Southwestern Athletic Conference (SWAC), whose members are primarily HBCU institutions.

### Student organizations

There are over 60 registered student organizations on campus including the Student Government Association, Aristocrat of Bands (AOB), and many fraternities and sororities.[34]

## Notable alumni

This is a dynamic list and may never be able to satisfy particular standards for completeness. You can help by expanding it with reliably sourced entries.

### Aviation

| Name  | Class year  | Notability  | References

|
|
|

U. L. "Rip" Gooch  |  | Commercial pilot (20,000+ hours); certified flight instructor; owner/president, Aero Services, Inc.; 1993 Kansas Governor's Aviation Honor Award; inductee, Black Aviation Hall of Fame  | [35][36][37][38][39][40][41][42][43]

### Civil rights

| Name  | Class year  | Notability  | References

|
|
|

U. L. "Rip" Gooch  |  | Civil rights activist; Commissioner, Kansas Commission on Civil Rights (also see: "Politics" below)  | [35][37][38][44]

### Education

| Name  | Class year  | Notability  | References

|
|
|

Glenda Glover  | 1974  | Eighth president of Tennessee State University  | [45]
Sylvia Lyons Render  | 1934  | English professor at two HBCUs, manuscript curator at the Library of Congress  |
Andrew P. Torrence  | 1948  | Third president of Tennessee State University  | [46]
Arthuryne J. Welch-Taylor  | 1953  | education professor at several HBCUs, researcher with the National Education Association  |

### Entertainment

| Name  | Class year  | Notability  | References

|
|
|

Jimmy Blanton  |  | Jazz musician  | [47]
Hank Crawford  |  | Jazz musician  | [48]
Moses Gunn  |  | Actor  | [49]
Lee Summers  | 1980  | Broadway Original Dreamgirls, actor, writer  | [50]
Leon Thomas  |  | Jazz singer (attended two years)  | [51]
Key Wane  | 2012  | Hip hop record producer  | [52]
Oprah Winfrey  | 1987  | Talk show host, actress, entrepreneur  | [53]

### Politics

| Name  | Class year  | Notability  | References

|
|
|

James Clayborne, Jr.  | 1985  | Member of the Illinois Senate  | [54]
Vincent Dixie  |  | Representative in the Tennessee House of Representatives  | [55]
Harold Ford, Sr.  |  | Member of the U.S. Congress  | [56]
Howard Gentry, Jr.  |  | Politician  | [57]
U. L. "Rip" Gooch  |  | Member, Kansas Senate (oldest serving Kansas state senator at 2004 retirement); member, City Council of Wichita, Kansas (also see: "Civil Rights" above)  | [35][37][38][44][58][59][60]
Thelma Harper  |  | Member of the Tennessee Senate  | [61]
Harvey Johnson, Jr.  |  | Former mayor of Jackson, Mississippi  | [62]
Ronnie Lewis  |  | Former mayor of Dolton, Illinois  | [63]
Dr. C. O. Simpkins, Sr.  |  | Dentist in Shreveport, civil rights activist, and member of the Louisiana House of Representatives from 1992 to 1996  | [64]
A C Wharton  |  | Mayor of Memphis, Tennessee  | [65]

### Science and technology

| Name  | Class year  | Notability  | References

|
|
|

Leonard Jordan  |  | Acting chief of the Natural Resources Conservation Service, an agency of the United States Department of Agriculture responsible for cultivating public-private partnerships that result in good land and water management practices.  |
Dorothy McClendon  | 1948  | American microbiologist who developed methods to protect stored goods, notably fuel, from degradation due to biological agents.  | [66]
Dorothy J. Phillips  | 1966  | American chemist and Director-at-Large at the American Chemical Society |
Jesse Russell  |  | Electrical engineer and wireless communications pioneer  |
Carla Walker-Miller  |  | Engineer and founder and CEO of Walker-Miller Energy Services  |
Angie Jones  |  | Software Engineer. Holds 26 patented inventions in the United States of America and Japan.  | [67]

### Sports

| Name  | Class year  | Notability  | References

|
|
|

Joe Adams  |  | CFL football player  | [68]
Brent Alexander  |  | NFL football player  | [69]
Hubbard Alexander  |  | American football player  |
Bennie Anderson  | 1999  | NFL football player  | [70]
Dick Barnett  | 1959  | NBA basketball player  | [71]
Ralph Boston  |  | Olympic athlete; three time medal winning long jumper  | [72]
Sam Bowers  |  | Gridiron football player  | [73]
Waymond Bryant  |  | NFL football player  | [74]
Chandra Cheeseborough  |  | Olympic runner; gold and silver medalist  |
Robert Covington  | 2013  | NBA basketball player  |
Dave Davis  |  | NFL football player  | [75]
Richard Dent  |  | NFL football player and member of Pro Football Hall of Fame  | [76]
Keron DeShields  |  | Basketball player in the Israeli National League  |
Lamar Divens  |  | NFL football player  | [77]
Cleveland Elam  |  | NFL football player  | [78]
J.J. Eubanks  |  | American basketball player; top scorer in the 1994-95 Israel Basketball Premier League  |
Charley Ferguson  |  | AFL football player  | [79]
Ryan Fann  |  | Paralympic runner  | [80]
Sean Foley  |  | Golf instructor to PGA Tour players  | [81]
Randy Fuller  |  | NFL football player  | [82]
Rogers Gaines  |  | NFL football player  | [83]
Joe Gilliam  |  | NFL football player  | [84]
W. C. Gorden  | 1952  | Head football coach at Jackson State University, 1976–1991; member of College Football Hall of Fame  | [85][86]
Mike Hegman  |  | NFL football player  | [87]
Jarrick Hillery  |  | American football player  | [88]
Claude Humphrey  |  | NFL football player and member of Pro Football Hall of Fame  | [89]
Ed "Too Tall" Jones  |  | NFL football player  | [90]
Joe "Turkey" Jones  |  | NFL football player  | [91]
Larry Kinnebrew  |  | NFL football player  | [92]
Anthony Levine  |  | NFL football player  | [93]
Madeline Manning  |  | Olympic runner; gold medalist  | [94]
Anthony Mason  |  | NBA basketball player  | [95]
Edith McGuire  |  | Olympic runner; gold and two silver medals  | [96]
Patrick Miller  |  | American basketball player in the Israeli Basketball Premier League  |
Steve Moore  |  | NFL football player  | [97]
Lloyd Neal  |  | NBA basketball player  | [98]
Robert Porcher  |  | NFL football player  | [99]
Brian Ransom  |  | NFL football player  | [100]
Leonard "Truck" Robinson  |  | NBA basketball player  | [101]
Dominique Rodgers-Cromartie  |  | NFL football player  | [102]
Carlos Rogers  | 1994  | Former NBA basketball player  | [103]
Wilma Rudolph  |  | Olympic runner; first woman of color to win three gold medals in a single Olympics  | [104]
Simon Shanks  |  | NFL football player  | [105]
Nate Simpson  |  | NFL football player  | [106]
Ahmaad Smith  |  | American football player  | [107]
Ollie Smith  |  | NFL football player  | [108]
Larry Tharpe  |  | NFL football player  | [109]
Wyomia Tyus  |  | Olympic runner; first person to retain the Olympic title in the 100 m  | [110]
Charlie Wade  |  | NFL football player  | [111]
Carl Wafer  |  | NFL football player  | [112]
Willye White  | 1950s  | Olympic track and field athlete; two silver medals  | [113]
Javarris Williams  |  | NFL football player  | [114]

## See also

* List of Tennessee State University presidents
* Southern Heritage Classic
* From the Rough

## References

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## Further reading

* Lovett, Bobby L. A Touch of Greatness: A History of Tennessee State University (Mercer University Press, 2012) 340 pp.

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