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Vanderbilt University (informally Vandy or VU) is a private research university in Nashville, Tennessee, United States.Founded in 1873, it was named in honor of shipping and railroad magnate Cornelius Vanderbilt, who provided the school its initial $1 million endowment in the hopes that his gift and the greater work of the university would help to heal the sectional wounds inflicted by the ...
This is a list of notable current and former faculty members, alumni (graduating and non-graduating) of Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tennessee. Unless otherwise noted, attendees listed graduated with a bachelor's degree. Names with an asterisk (*) graduated from Peabody College prior to its merger with Vanderbilt.
The university expelled three students, suspended one, and placed 22 students on disciplinary probation in relation to the protest. [26] Alumni and faculty issued open letters criticizing student BDS efforts, calling for campus civility, and expressing solidarity with Vanderbilt’s pro-Israel Jewish community.
The Vanderbilt rape case is a criminal case of sexual assault that occurred on June 23, 2013, in Nashville, Tennessee, in which four Vanderbilt University football players carried an unconscious 21-year-old female student into a dorm room, gang-raped and sodomized her, photographed and videotaped her, and one urinated on her face. [1] [2] [3 ...
Perry Eugene Wallace Jr. (February 19, 1948 – December 1, 2017) [1] was an American lawyer who was a professor of law at Washington College of Law. [2] He was the first African-American varsity athlete to play basketball under an athletic scholarship in the Southeastern Conference, playing for Vanderbilt University.
Vanderbilt University does not care about student safety; the institution and its trustees care about profits and rankings.. This was a truth I knew intimately while an undergraduate, from 2014 ...
The Vanderbilt University Owen Graduate School of Management is the graduate business school of Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tennessee, United States.Founded in 1969, Owen offers six degrees: a standard 2-year Master of Business Administration (MBA), an Executive MBA, Master of Finance, Master of Accountancy, Master of Accountancy-Valuation, and Master of Management in Health Care, as ...
In the 1960s, Lamar Alexander served as its editor, and called for open admission of African Americans on campus. [5] More recently, Willie Geist was the editor. [6] Some other greats in Hustler sports history have been Skip Bayless, Buster Olney, John (Joe Bob Briggs) Bloom, Don (Hustlin') Hemke, Irv Muchnick, Rich White, Walt Patter, Kevin Cuneo, George Masterson, and Bo Carter.