ETSU joining Kingsport Academic Village center (VIDEOS)

KINGSPORT — Former Kingsport Mayor Dennis Phillips said he had all but given up hope that East Tennessee State University would join the Kingsport Center for Higher Education.

Tuesday, however, the announcement came. ETSU is leaving space near Food City on the former Kingsport Press property for the higher education center a few blocks away later this year. So less than a year after Tusculum College and the University of Tennessee left the Kingsport Center for Higher Education, ETSU decided to join the higher ed center it declined to join when KCHE opened in 2008.

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