Governor Bill Lee has signed a bill to remove the Board of Trustees of Tennessee State University in Nashville, the state’s only publicly funded historically black university.
Lawmakers were pushing for the ouster of the Trustees and Thursday morning the state Comptroller’s office released “a new forensic audit of Tennessee State University (which it said) includes 57 observations and 60 recommendations related to how TSU handles a variety of core responsibilities including budget monitoring, collecting tuition, awarding scholarships, and many more.” This comes after multiple other audits have found what the Comptroller’s office said was “continued management shortcomings at TSU”.
On Friday, Governor Bill Lee announced the new appointees to the Tennessee State University Board of Trustees. Each appointee is an alum of the University.