Source: Natalie Schwartz, HIGHER ED DIVE, 4/7/21


Tennessee State University, the state's only public HBCU, and the University of Tennessee, the state's flagship school, are land-grant institutions, which receive annual funding from the federal government. The state was supposed to match the amount of federal money going to each school dollar-for-dollar. The legislative analysis, however, shows the state's funding for Tennessee State fell short of what it was due for decades. 

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