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Dr. Granville Sawyer

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Challenges

• Encountered treatment of black Americans as second- class citizens
• As student unrest continued, charged with channeling student energies toward accomplishing the educational goals

Accomplishments

• Championed TSU expansion by increasing recruitment of international students, fulfilling designation as special purpose institution for urban programming and spreading message of “ Excellent in Achievement”
• His tenure saw men’s basketball NAIA championship, appointment of Dr. Rod Paige as athletic director.
• Birth of the Ocean of soul marching band
• Founding of weekend college and mobile campus
• Establishment of KTSU- Radio
• Closing of Wheeler Street, which Sawyer said “ gave us campus”