Fisk University is a private, historically Black liberal arts university in Nashville, Tennessee, founded in 1866 as the Fisk Free Colored School to educate newly freed African Americans. It offers undergraduate and graduate education alongside research, mentoring and student professional development, and describes a mission centred on teaching, mentoring, research and the professional and financial success of its graduates. Its long tradition of intellectual, civic and cultural leadership includes a commitment to social justice initiatives.
The university delivers more than 20 undergraduate and graduate programmes spanning the sciences, mathematics, business, the humanities, the behavioural and social sciences, music, psychology and education. It also operates bridge pathways that carry students from master's study into doctoral programmes. In 1930 it became the first African American institution to be accredited by the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools.
Students work with experienced faculty and take part in undergraduate research, leadership development, service, arts and cultural activities, and athletics. The university maintains the Carl Van Vechten Gallery and other collections, and operates from Nashville with an institutional presence extending to Nashville and beyond. Further detail is available at https://fisk.edu/.
