Editing Shelbyville, Tennessee (section)

===Higher education===
The [[Tennessee College of Applied Technology - Shelbyville]] is one of 46 institutions in the [[Tennessee Board of Regents]] System, the seventh largest system of higher education in the nation. This system comprises six universities, fourteen community colleges, and twenty-six technology centers. More than 80 percent of all Tennessee students attending public institutions are enrolled in a Tennessee Board of Regents institution.

Shelbyville was the home of [[Turner College]], a [[HBCU]] established in October 1885 with support from the Kentucky Annual Conference [[AME Church]]. Bishop Henry M. Turner was its founding leader, and eventually the school was renamed for him. A private school supported by local people, there was a high school, a [[normal school]], an "industrial institute," and a Bible study institute included in the institution.<ref>Gomez-Jefferson, Annetta L. (2002) The Sage of Tanawa: Reverdy Cassius Ransom, 1861-1969. Kent, OH: The Kent State University. p. 176.</ref><ref>Baxter, D. M. (1923). Bishop Richard Allen and His Spirit. United States: A.M.E. Book Concern. p. 43.</ref> Located in two brick buildings, between 1920 and 1924 the institution had 385 students.<ref>Dickerson, D. C. (2010). African American Preachers and Politics: The Careys of Chicago. United States: University Press of Mississippi. p. 112.</ref> Apparently the fiscal support for the school didn't continue though, and in the late 1920s the "starving little school" was permanently closed.<ref>Dickerson, D. C. (2020). The African Methodist Episcopal Church: A History. United Kingdom: Cambridge University Press. p. 167.</ref>