Family Weekend
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Record-breaking milestones make for an unforgettable Family Weekend 2025
More than 5,200 Vanderbilt parents and families gathered on campus to celebrate Family Weekend 2025. This year’s festivities, held Sept. 19–21, broke records by achieving the highest attendance ever recorded for the event. Read MoreSep 25, 2025
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From tea to tailgates: Family Weekend 2024 celebrates Commodore Community
Nearly 4,200 parents, grandparents, siblings and friends convened on the Vanderbilt campus to celebrate Family Weekend 2024. This year’s event, Sept. 6–8, was one of the most successfully attended in recent memory, recording the highest attendance number in five years. Throughout the weekend, guests were invited to share coffee… Read MoreSep 12, 2024
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Forward Ever: Vanderbilt celebrates its past and present as it creates opportunities for a stellar future
In keeping with the Sesquicentennial spirit, we celebrate our past, present and future—from our important and long-standing function in the city of Nashville, to the holistic education and opportunities to innovate that our students receive from Immersion Vanderbilt, to our mastery of the cutting-edge technologies that will define our shared future. Read MoreMay 15, 2024
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2023 Family Weekend celebrates students and families
The Vanderbilt community welcomed more than 4,000 family members and friends to campus Oct. 13–15 to celebrate this year’s Family Weekend. Read MoreOct 20, 2023
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Making History Together: Upcoming Sesquicentennial offers opportunity to consider our past, envision our future
Amid the rush of the new academic year, we’re also preparing for a rare opportunity to pause and reflect. In 2023, Vanderbilt will mark the 150th anniversary of our founding—our Sesquicentennial. We’re planning a yearlong commemoration in which our entire Vanderbilt community will be invited to consider our past and, especially, to envision our future. Read MoreNov 7, 2022
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Extended Family: Vanderbilt celebrates Family Weekend with three days of special events
More than 3,000 parents, siblings, grandparents, students and others celebrated Family Weekend Oct. 1–3 as Vanderbilt welcomed families to campus for three days of special events. Read MoreJan 30, 2022
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Chancellor’s Letter: Trust, Transparency and Teamwork
The academic year is in full swing here at Vanderbilt. From Founders Walk and the start of classes to Family Weekend and Reunion gatherings, my new vantage point as interim chancellor has confirmed what I already believed: that Vanderbilt is stronger and more vibrant than ever before. Read MoreNov 7, 2019