Tennessee State University

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History
TSU was originally organized as the Agricultural and Industrial State Normal School in 1909 and began serving students on June 19, 1912. Its status was raised to a four-year teachers' college in 1922, and two years later it was renamed the Agricultural and Industrial State Normal College. After another five years, "Normal" was dropped from its name.

It was elevated to university status in 1951, renamed the Tennessee Agricultural and Industrial University, and got full-fledged land-grant university status by the Tennessee State Board of Education in 1958. Since 1972, it has been operated under the auspices of the Tennessee Board of Regents.

Founded in 1912, Tennessee State University has grown dramatically from a small college to two campuses: the 500-acre main campus and the downtown Avon Williams campus, which is located in the heart of Nashville near the State Capitol. The diverse student population of more than 9,000 represents 46 states and 45 countries. TSU has been listed for 11 consecutive years in the U.S. News & World Report “Guide to America’s Best Colleges.”

Tennessee State University is a comprehensive, urban, coeducational land-grant university offering 45 bachelor’s degrees and 24 master degrees. Doctoral programs include biological sciences, psychology, public administration, computer information systems engineering, administration and supervision and curriculum and instruction.

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Tennessee State University is not responsible for comments or wall postings made by visitors to the page and reserves the right, at its sole discretion, to screen and remove any content it deems inappropriate. This includes commercial content whose primary purpose is to sell a product, a service, or other such practices via the TSU page, as well as content that harasses, abuses, threatens, or in any other way violates the rights of others. We also reserve the right to remove posts containing any and all links.

Comment Policy:
The TSU Facebook page is an open forum intended for civil discussion. Interested parties are free to express their views and opinions as long as the rules and standards of discourse are followed.

* Any comments or content that violate the rules and standards are subject to deletion.
* Any individual who violates the rules and standards after being advised by the page administrator can have their commenting and posting privileges revoked.
* Any individual who is a repeat offender of the rules and standards can have their commenting and posting privileges revoked.

Rules of discourse:

* Obscene and vulgar language is prohibited.
* Comments condoning or promoting violence are prohibited.
* Name-calling is discouraged. Repeated name-calling by individuals is prohibited.
* Comments and content designed primarily to elicit an emotional response are prohibited.
* Overly-repetitive commenting within a single thread is prohibited.
* The intentional posting of inaccurate comments or content is not allowed.
* Comments made by individuals using inappropriate profile photos will be deleted.
* Users cannot like their own posts.
* Unauthorized solicitations and business advertisements are prohibited.

The job of the page administrator is to guide all discussions in order to achieve the quality of discourse expected by the university. All users posting comments or content must adhere the directives of the administrator.

In addition, TSU upholds the Terms of Service standards administered by Facebook. Facebook encourages all users to utilize the "Report" links when they find abusive content.