TSU leaders presented a plan to repurpose $154.5 million in state funds and cut up to $37 million from the school's budget Wednesday.

Tennessee State University on Wednesday unveiled a financial recovery plan that would call for up to $37 million in additional cost-cutting, including more layoffs. Why it matters: Interim president Dwayne Tucker told a state panel that those cuts would help put the historically Black college on solid footing after many years of financial tumult.

The state's leading research hospitals and universities are urging the state's congressional delegation to intervene.

Tennessee State University is proposing up to $13 million in staff cuts and capping scholarships for each new freshman class moving forward during the next five years.