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Making Equity a Priority

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

It launched a popular Farmer’s Market on campus last year, providing each student with $20 a week to access fresh foods and vegetables. The market regularly draws more than 700 students and plans are underway to build student housing on campus. He says he also wants to build a 24-hour urgent care facility on campus.

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Tennessee State cites past underfunding as cause of problems

Confessions of a Community College Dean

Image: An enrollment surge at Tennessee State University combined with a lack of student housing led to a scathing comptroller’s report calling for a change in the historically Black university’s leadership. million in institutional plant fund reserves and the rest from student housing fees, according to the report.