Statements
Mission
Vanderbilt University is a center for scholarly research, informed and creative teaching, and service to the community and society at large. Vanderbilt will uphold the highest standards and be a leader in the: * quest for new knowledge through scholarship, * dissemination of knowledge through teaching and outreach, * creative experimentation of ideas and concepts.
Background
Cornelius Vanderbilt had a vision of a place that would "contribute to strengthening the ties that should exist between all sections of our common country" when he gave $1 million to create a university in 1873. Today that vision has been realized in Vanderbilt, an internationally recognized research university in Nashville, Tennessee, with strong partnerships among its 10 schools, neighboring institutions and the community.Vanderbilt offers undergraduate programs in the liberal arts and sciences, engineering, music, education and human development, as well as a full range of graduate and professional degrees. The combination of cutting-edge research, liberal arts education, nationally recognized schools of law, business, medicine, nursing and divinity, and one of the nation's top-ranked graduate schools of education creates an invigorating atmosphere where students tailor their education to meet their goals and researchers collaborate to address the complex questions affecting our health, culture and society.Vanderbilt provides a gateway to greatness, drawing the brightest students from across the nation and around the world. Vanderbilt alumni can be found in Congress, on the judicial bench, in the pulpit, leading corporations, conducting innovative medical research, serving in their communities, and playing in the NFL, major league baseball, the PGA and LPGA.Vanderbilt, an independent, privately supported university, and the separate, nonprofit Vanderbilt University Medical Center share a respected name and enjoy close collaboration through education and research. Together, the number of people employed by these two organizations exceeds that of the largest private employer in the Middle Tennessee region.
Impact
Vanderbilt University's key accomplishments for the past year include: *Thirteen outstanding faculty members from across the university have been selected for the 2023 cohort of Chancellor Faculty Fellows. This group is composed of highly accomplished, recently tenured faculty from a wide variety of disciplines and areas of expertise. *Together with our partners at Vanderbilt University Medical Center, we are launching a $17 million multiyear transformative program with support from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to accelerate diversity, equity, inclusion and belonging in the biomedical research community. *Vanderbilt University's graduate programs showed continued strength in the 2023-2024 "U.S. News & World Report" Best Graduate Schools rankings, with four of Vanderbilt's graduate and professional schools falling within the top 20, *The School of Medicine was ranked fifth in the nation in the School of Medicine - Research category, its highest ranking ever and its first ranking within the top 10. *Vanderbilt Law School rose a spot to place 16th. *Vanderbilt is ranked 13th among national universities - moving up one spot from last year to its best ever overall ranking in the "U.S. News & World Report's" 2023 Best Colleges list. The university also was recognized as a best value and as a stellar learning community.
Needs
At Vanderbilt, our mission is to teach, to discover, to cure, to innovate. Simply put, what we do here at Vanderbilt makes a difference every day in the world around us. You allow us to continue offering a world-class education to talented and diverse students, while bringing forth bold ideas that make a difference at a global level.
CEO Statement
My name is Daniel Diermeier and I am delighted to join Vanderbilt today as the university's ninth chancellor. ... This is a time filled with potential as students return to the campus in fall under the safeguards we recently announced. Above all, I look forward to working with all of you to embark on Vanderbilt's next chapter of excellence. New beginnings are often filled with optimism. But this is especially true when they are rooted in a tradition of achievement, a common purpose and the strong values and culture that have led Vanderbilt to where we are today. I have all of you to thank for that. When I originally envisioned my first day in this position, I could not have imagined that the world would be in the grip of a global pandemic while simultaneously witnessing a profound and powerful call for racial justice. And yet, despite these profound challenges, I cannot think of a better time to step into this role, and for all of us to come together to advance Vanderbilt's mission--to share our values, our discoveries, our wisdom, our humanity when society needs them most. ... Together, we will not only advance our university's mission, but also expand it-finding new questions to answer, exploring novel ways to resolve social ills, discovering pathways that will save or improve lives. We will continue in Vanderbilt's invigorating spirit of collaboration, whether developing a possible vaccine, or working to stamp out racial injustice."
-Daniel Diermeier, 9th Chancellor of Vanderbilt University
Board Chair Statement
"Taken as a whole, the [Vanderbilt University] Academic Strategic Plan describes a thoughtful, multipart system designed to produce well-educated men and women. Now, we just have to go raise the funds to fully implement everything in this plan. That's next on our list of goals." Bruce Evans, Vanderbilt University Board of Trust Chairman
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Areas Served
Vanderbilt is committed to advance discovery and learning in service to humanity by addressing challenges big and small at the local, national, and international level.
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