BLUEFIELD — Bluefield State University will receive a $7.145 million Congressionally Directed Spending (CDS) award to support the creation of a state-of-the-art health care training facility at the BSU Medical
It seemed like things couldn’t get any more shocking after Tennessee Republicans kicked two Black State Representatives out of the State Legislature last year. But the latest move affecting Tennessee’s only publicly-funded, Historically Black University still managed to send shock waves across the state.
Kevin Wurm/ReutersTennessee’s majority-white legislature removed, in one fell swoop, all 10 board members at the state’s only publicly funded historically Black university on Thursday, a move Democrats slammed.Republican Gov. Bill Lee, who is white, signed legislation approved by the GOP-controlled House on Thursday vacating Tennessee State University’s board and appointed eight new members, mostly from the business sector, to replace them.“I’m pleased to appoint these highly qualified individua