The Tennessee State University
The Tennessee State University, NMAETC Regional Performance Site, is located in Nashville, Tennessee and is a major comprehensive urban land-grant institution offering 45 bachelor’s degrees and 24 master’s degrees. Doctoral degrees are offered in six areas. Founded in 1912, the University has been listed for the past ten years in the U.S. News and World Report’s “Guide to America’s Best Colleges”.
The College of Health Sciences at Tennessee State University was established to offer educational programs designed to produce allied health professions practitioners and to prepare individuals who are interested in pursuing careers as educators in the health professions; to encourage, develop and support interest in research; and to provide health care, when appropriate, and continuing educational services to the community.
The specific objectives of the College of Health Sciences are:
- To develop and implement educational programs designed to produce allied health practitioners and educators based upon employment demands and the availability of resources.
- To recruit students interested in careers in the health care field in programs offered in the College and instill in these students the basic principles of morality and professional ethics; to provide these students with career counseling, academic advisement, and tutorial assistance designed to assist them in their effort to achieve their career goals.
- To maintain full accreditation by appropriate agencies for all programs offered by the College.
- To recruit and maintain faculty capable of making significant contributions to the basic and applied research efforts of the supporting institutions.
- To encourage and promote the rendering of service to the community through the sponsorship of seminars, workshops, consultation, and the delivery of health care whenever appropriate.
- To identify and serve the needs of students whose prior educational and/or cultural disadvantage has prevented their being fully prepared to pursue an allied health career as well as the needs of advantaged students.
Tennessee State University has a robust Health Administration and Health Sciences Department that will enhance NMAETC’s capacity building efforts in a number of key disciplines which routinely are overlooked in typical education, training and support enhancement efforts. In addition, the focus to expand capacity building within the allied health professions will increase the opportunity for training in the areas of clinical delivery, cultural competence and clinical systems support.
- Contact Information
- Tennessee State University
- Clement Hall, Rm. 256 (need new address)
- 3500 John A. Merritt Blvd.
- Nashville, TN 37209
- Phone: 615.963.7210
- Fax: 615.963.2155 (need new address)
Gerard Shu Tangyie, MD – Principal Investigator
gshutangyie@aol.com
Rosemary Theriot, Ed.D., MPH – Project Director
rtheriot@tnstate.edu
Katrina Land – Program Coordinator
krland@hotmail.com