Office Of The Dean Of Students

As the people of the Philippines continue the long process of recovery from the devastation wrought by Typhoon Haiyan, the Vanderbilt community is reaching out to those who may have been affected. Read More

First Friends connects Vanderbilt's international students with Americans for friendship and cross-cultural exchange. Read More

Vanderbilt’s Office of Religious Life will host an interfaith vigil April 22 for the victims of the Boston Marathon bombings as well as those killed and injured in a West, Texas, plant explosion. Read More

(Vanderbilt University) The Office of the Dean of Students has announced it will reorganize its efforts in the areas of diversity education and leadership development through the creation of two new offices, the re-purposing of an existing office and the creation of two new cross-departmental committees. The… Read More

There is a new system on campus that is transforming the way Vanderbilt manages the co-curricular student experience: Anchor Link. A joint initiative between the Office of the Dean of Students and Vanderbilt Student Government, Anchor Link is an online student involvement… Read More

A tradition among first-year students to read and discuss a common text has inspired a campuswide initiative called “Human Identities: Global, Local, Personal,” designed to raise nuanced dialogue about gender and sexuality across the Vanderbilt community. Read More

Vanderbilt University has been named to the 2013 Green Honor Roll by "The Princeton Review." Vanderbilt was one of only 21 universities nationwide to receive the publication's highest possible green rating. Read More

Vanderbilt’s acclaimed International Lens film series returns this fall with a stellar line-up of films from all over the world, including China, Sweden, Mexico, India, Vietnam, Russia, France, Afghanistan, Cambodia, Romania and more. "The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo," a hit in America, is a Swedish… Read More

The Rev. Mark Forrester, an affiliated United Methodist chaplain and campus minister at Vanderbilt, will now take on the top job as university chaplain and director of the Office of Religious Life. Read More

International students at Vanderbilt are in need of friendship and support when they arrive. Help make their transition smooth by participating in First Friends through ISSS. (photo provided by ISSS) Each fall Vanderbilt welcomes students from around the world to our campus and community. This year, 360 international students… Read More

Updated May 1, 2012 After several months of discussion about how Vanderbilt University’s nondiscrimination policy might affect groups applying to be registered student organizations for the 2012-13 academic year, the registration process ended earlier this week. More than 400 student groups have agreed to comply with… Read More

Update: In anticipation of there being greater interest than the available venue will accommodate for this evening’s town hall meeting on the university’s nondiscrimination policy, the university has scheduled a live webstream of the event. It should be accessible at 6:15 p.m. to anyone on the Vanderbilt network. Read More

John Seigenthaler of the First Amendment Center at Vanderbilt will speak during a celebration of the 220th anniversary of the Bill of Rights. Read More

The Office of the Dean of Students announced last August a feasibility study to examine repurposing the space vacated by the bookstore. The planning committee included staff members from the Dean of Students offices, Dining Services, and Campus Planning and Construction, as… Read More

You could make the difference in the life of a student far from home and family. Read More

Vanderbilt's director of conferences has been honored by the ACCED-I. Read More

Idea for community garden grows into reality Last year, the Vanderbilt Initiative for Vegetarian Awareness (VIVA) had the idea to create a Vanderbilt Community Garden to grow crops for Vanderbilt students in organic and sustainable ways.  This month, the garden became a reality with the first planting. The… Read More