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How Dare You: An HBCU President's Fight for Half a Billion Dollars Owed-and the State's Actions to Avoid Payment

How Dare You: An HBCU President's Fight for Half a Billion Dollars Owed-and the State's Actions to Avoid Payment

Baskin Glover, Glenda

Paperback

Biographies GeneralGeneral EducationGeneral Racism & Ethnic Studies

ISBN13: 9798996657827
Publisher: Carrington Books
Published: Jun 21 2026
Pages: 218
Weight: 0.66
Height: 0.50 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English

The State acknowledged the debt ...
and payment is the only remedy

For decades, Tennessee State University was denied the land-grant funding mandated under the Morrill Act for equitable funding. The State fully funded its other land-grant institution but withheld funding from TSU. When Dr. Glenda Glover began the process of calculating an initial amount owed to TSU in underfunding, the State's own calculation later produced a staggering total: $544 million.

As president of TSU, Dr. Glover found herself at the center of a struggle that stretched far beyond one campus. It became a battle for equity, accountability, and the future of every underfunded HBCU in America. With the combined precision of a CPA, attorney, and university leader, she details how the State calculated the $544 million, what it did next, and the decisions that kept the obligation from being fulfilled. The book reflects on what it means when a government acknowledges a debt yet leaves it unresolved.

A story of truth, persistence, and a debt the State itself confirmed.

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