Education

Fifty years ago, two men took a bold step for themselves and for the future of Vanderbilt University Law School. Shortly after the landmark decision, Brown v. Board of Education, in which the Supreme Court ruled that segregation in public schools was unconstitutional, and after strong encouragement from the law faculty, Vanderbilt Law School broke the color barrier and became the first privately funded law school in the South to admit African American students. Read More

Efforts by the Vanderbilt Child and Family Policy Center and other groups to sustain community partnerships that help Tennessee teens aging out of foster care are making a dramatic difference, according to the co-chair of the Tennessee Youth Advisory Council. Read More

Anja Becker, a visiting post-doctoral fellow at the Center for the Americas at Vanderbilt, will deliver the Founders Day Lecture at 4 p.m. March 15 in the Bennett-Miller Room at Vanderbilt Law School. Becker's lecture is titled "As a Man Thinketh in His Heart So He Is: The Educational Values of Vanderbilt Chancellor James H. Kirkland (1893-1937) as Expressed in His Letters and Speeches." A scholar with the German Academic Exchange Service, Becker has researched the history of Vanderbilt, Kirkland and the influence of German educators on education in the South. Members of the Vanderbilt community and the public are invited to attend. Read More

Vanderbilt University will award its second Nichols-Chancellor's Medal and $100,000 prize on May 10 to Muhammad Yunus, a Vanderbilt alumnus and winner of the 2006 Nobel Peace Prize. Read More

Solutions to the energy crisis, current foreign policy dilemmas and the evolution of medical education and its impact on health care are among the offerings for the spring term of Retirement Learning at Vanderbilt March 12-April 19. Read More

Parents wanting to expand their children‘s horizons this summer through a variety of programs — ranging from sports to art, music and academics — simply need to click onto the Vanderbilt Web site for a comprehensive listing. Read More

Faculty from Vanderbilt University and South Africa‘s University of Cape Town (UCT) will meet March 4-7 in Cape Town to discuss how they can work together to recruit and train more black astronomers in South Africa. Read More

You‘ve heard of junior colleges. Vanderbilt University is offering a new twist — junior junior college — for talented seventh through tenth graders. Read More

Nashville Vice Mayor Howard Gentry Jr. will share stories with middle and high school students across the nation about growing up in a segregated Nashville when he is a presenter for the Vanderbilt Virtual School on Feb. 15. "Breaking the Color Barrier" will be a step back in time to a very different life for African-Americans in the 1950s and even ‘60s, according to Patsy Partin, director of the Virtual School. Read More

Vanderbilt University Peabody College of education and human development experts are available to discuss various aspects of No Child Left Behind as Congress considers its reauthorization in 2007. Read More

Four Tennessee schools and one community outreach program have each won a $10,000 grant from the Vanderbilt Center for Child and Family Policy to help close the achievement gap between white and black and Latino students. Read More

Community college presidents from across Tennessee will convene at Vanderbilt University Feb. 13 to discuss service learning. The event will take place from 2 to 4 p.m. at the First Amendment Center, 1207 18th Ave. South. It is closed to the public. Media are welcome to attend. Read More

Researchers will present papers on a series of topics including the impact of agro-terrorism; the role of international agreements in achieving food security; what tragedy teaches us about 100-year-old food laws; food-borne infections and the global food supply and regulating food aid in disasters. Read More

The Rev. James Lawson, Distinguished University Professor at Vanderbilt and a key leader in the nonviolent resistance efforts of the civil rights movement, will be the featured speaker at the Vanderbilt Peabody College 2007 Martin Luther King Jr. Commemoration. His lecture, "Where Do We Go from Here: Chaos or Community?" will take place on Thursday, Jan. 25, at 12:30 p.m. in the Wyatt Center Rotunda. This event is free and open to the public. Read More

Many of today‘s students reach for a keyboard rather than a pencil to communicate their thoughts. But they just might be typing their way to the back of the class, according to Vanderbilt writing expert Steve Graham. Read More

Vanderbilt University placed No. 7 in rankings released for the scholarly production of professors at research universities in the United States. Read More

The Vanderbilt Peabody Center for Education Policy is undertaking an ongoing initiative to generate, share, debate and discuss the latest information on the state of education in Tennessee. Read More

Who will be the next Albert Einstein? The next Stephen Hawking? A new report from Vanderbilt University reveals the complex mix of factors that create these intellectual leaders: cognitive abilities, educational opportunities, investigative interests and old-fashioned hard work. Read More

Ask most faculty, administrators, staff and students if they are interested in helping students succeed in college and the answer is likely to be a resounding yes. Ask them what exactly they mean by student success and the answer will probably be much more muddied. Read More

Vanderbilt Peabody College faculty are poised to influence what could be the most significant school integration Supreme Court cases since Brown v. Board of Education. Read More