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Glover to step down from TSU presidency after firestorm over housing – Tennessee Lookout [1]

['Sam Stockard', 'More From Author', '- August']

Date: 2023-08

Nearly a year after Republican lawmakers threatened to fire her over a housing crunch, Tennessee State University President Glenda Glover announced Monday she will step down next year.

During a Faculty Staff Institute meeting, Glover said she will end her tenure as TSU president June 30, 2024, making her decision at the start of a $2 million audit of TSU’s finances after Tennessee Comptroller Jason Mumpower this spring recommended a change in leadership, replacement of the TSU Board of Trustees and renewed oversight by the Tennessee Board of Regents while finding no financial wrongdoing.

Mumpower’s report followed a 2022 pounding by a Senate committee that told Glover she could be removed because of the way TSU handled a major influx of students without a plan for housing them. Questions also were raised about the historically Black university’s handling of scholarships and whether students received all the money they thought was coming to them, although Glover said they were likely mistaken.

TSU’s 2022-23 freshmen class saw about a 700-student increase, putting the university in a housing emergency and forcing officials to request the use of local hotels and a church to provide dorms. The university received approval but irked state lawmakers, who said Glover and the board could be removed for pushing scholarship and enrollment increase without having enough housing.

The university sought approval again this summer to serve another increase but kept it at about 300 students and needed only two hotels. Still, Mumpower challenged the state’s finances and projected it would be $1 million in the red next year, even though a TSU official said the university would have enough money to cover costs.







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