Location & Contact Information

Address:
1000 17th Avenue North
Nashville, Tennessee 37208
Main Phone: (615)329-8500
Main Contact: Keith Chandler
Website:http://www.fisk.edu

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Fisk University

     Fisk University provides a rich academic experience steeped in the liberal arts tradition. Our faculty and students exhibit a passion for learning and personal growth. We are committed to ethical leadership and engagement in our local and global.

Quick Facts

Undergrad Population: 850
Graduate Population: 23
Student Body: Coed
In State Tuition: $19462
Out of State Tuition: $19462
Room & Board: $9092
Applications Due: June 15 ($50)
Conference:
Mascot: Bulldogs
Accreditations:
Online Classes: no
Percent Men: 34%
Percent Women: 66%
Majors Offered

Arts & Languages

-Art
-English
-Modern Foreign Language
-Music

Behavioral Sciences

-Psychology
-Sociology & Anthropology
-Criminal Justice
-Homeland Security

History & Political Science

-History
-Political Science

Life and Physical Sciences

-Biology
-Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
-Chemistry
-Physics

Mathematics and Computer Science

-Mathematics
-Computer Science
-Data Science

Business Administration

-Accounting
-Financial Economics
-International Business
-Management
-Music Business
-Marketing

Graduate Studies

-Clinical Psychology
-General Psychology
-Master in Biology
-Master in Chemistry
-Master in Physics
-Master Social Justice
Sports & Extra Curricular Activities
Choral Groups, Dance, Jazz Band, Radio Station, Sororities, Student Newspaper
College History
     Barely six months after the end of the Civil War, and just two years after the Emancipation Proclamation, three men — John Ogden, the Reverend Erastus Milo Cravath, and the Reverend Edward P. Smith — established the Fisk School in Nashville, named in honor of General Clinton B. Fisk of the Tennessee Freedmens Bureau, who provided the new institution with facilities in former Union Army barracks near the present site of Nashvilles Union Station. In these facilities Fisk convened its first classes on January 9, 1866. The first students ranged in age from seven to seventy, but shared common experiences of slavery and poverty — and an extraordinary thirst for learning.
     The work of Fisks founders was sponsored by the American Missionary Association — later part of the United Church of Christ, with which Fisk retains an affiliation today. Ogden, Cravath, and Smith, along with others in their movement, shared a dream of an educational institution that would be open to all, regardless of race, and that would measure itself by the highest standards, not of Negro education, but of American education at its best. Their dream was incorporated as Fisk University on August 22, 1867.
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News and Upcoming Events at Fisk University

Fisk University's Morgan Price becomes first HBCU athlete to win national title in gymnastics
Morgan Price, a standout gymnast at Fisk University, has become the first from an HBCU to win a national collegiate gymnastics championship. Price too ...
Fisk University To Host Historic Gymnast Meet Led By Black Women Coaches
AFTER MAKING HISTORY WITH THE FIRST HBCU GYMNASTICS TEAM, GYMNASTS AT FISK WILL COMPETE AGAINST FIVE OTHER TEAMS LED BY BLACK WOMEN COACHES ON MARTIN ...
Fisk University Appoints Agenia Walker Clark as 18th President
In early September, Fisk University announced that Agenia Walker Clark, the longtime CEO of the Girl Scouts of Middle Tennessee, would become the 158- ...
Fisk University Welcomes Home Alumna Valencia Jordan as New Director of Athletics
Fisk University has appointed alumna Valencia Jordan as its new Director of Athletics, a role that brings her back to her alma mater. Jordan, a for ...
Fisk University Picks Longtime Nashville Leader as Next President
Fisk University has named Agenia Walker Clark as its next president. (Nashville, TN—Sept. 12) The Board of Trustees of Fisk University announced to ...
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