University of Tennessee at Nashville

The University of Tennessee at Nashville was a branch campus of the UT system which existed from 1968 to 1979.

The Division of Continuing Education was extremely popular with state, metro, and regional groups due to the wide variety of conferences and programs it offered.

[1] In a time when ADA compliance was still not an issue, the 10th and Charlotte Building contained elevators, ramps, and wheelchair access to almost all spaces.

When plans were announced to construct a freestanding building on Charlotte Avenue downtown to house an expanded UTN, concerns arose that the state was perpetuating a segregated system of higher education, since predominantly black Tennessee State University existed nearby.

A decade of litigation ensued, ending in a court decision in 1977 which forced the merger of UTN into Tennessee State on July 1, 1979.