The Community Partnership Center (part of the Institute for a Secure and Sustainable Environment) received a $150,000 grant from the J. Paul Getty Trust to prepare a campus heritage plan in 2006. The Center for Historic Preservation at Middle Tennessee State University was contracted by the CPC for the project. Tim Ezzell, director of the CPC, issued a final report in February 2009. The report listed 13 campus buildings as eligible for the National Register for Historic Places and made recommendations for an institutional structure to incorporate historic preservation into campus decision-making.