August 2024 update: Residence halls in Highland Quad—Morgan House, Lewis House, the Mayfield Living Learning Lodges and Chaffin Place—will NOT be demolished after the end of academic year 2024-25. The university continues to assess additional locations for future residential colleges and other possible uses for the Highland Quad area.
Last year, the university announced that the residence halls in Highland Quad—Morgan House, Lewis House, the Mayfield Living Learning Lodges and Chaffin Place—would be demolished after the end of this academic year to construct new residential colleges.
Although plans for a reimagined Highland Quad continue to move forward, its planned demolition has been put on hold as the university assesses additional locations for future residential colleges and other possible uses for the Highland Quad area. All residence halls in Highland Quad will be available for housing for academic year 2024–25.
Residential colleges are built to align with the university’s Academic Strategic Plan and FutureVU, an initiative to enhance the places on campus where community members live, work and learn.
Vanderbilt opened its first residential college, The Ingram Commons, to first-year students in 2008. Since then, five additional residential colleges for upper-division students have been constructed in the West End Neighborhood, expanding the university’s efforts to provide students, faculty and staff with an intentional, mutually beneficial educational and living experience. A sixth residential college is under construction and scheduled to open in 2024.
To learn more about Vanderbilt’s residential colleges, visit vanderbilt.edu/residentialcolleges.
