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Vanderbilt Arboretum

Main campus tree tour.

About the tour The Vanderbilt main campus tree tour is focused primarily on trees that are native to Middle Tennessee or naturalized, although a few other interesting non-native trees are included. It is a loop that goes from Wesley Place garage on the east side of campus to the west side of campus near the Memorial Gym and back. The tour includes 63 trees.

How the tour works The tour is designed to make use of portable devices. An iPad is optimal, although smart phones should also work well. Each tree has its own web page and is connected to the previous and next tree by buttons at the top of the page. In addition to the text description of the tree’s location, there is a map at the bottom of the page showing where the tree is located relative to landmarks on the campus.

If your phone or iPad has GPS, you can use the “Find Me!” button on the page to locate the tree. When you click on the button, a drop pin will fall on the tree’s location on a map. If you then click on the button to display your location on the map, you can see where you are relative to tree. You should be able to zoom in and make your “blue dot” meet the drop pin as you walk towards the tree. (Because the campus WiFi network covers many outdoor areas, you may be able to take parts of the tour without 3G. However, early version WiFi-only iPads do not have GPS capabilities. The Find Me! button will bring up a map with drop pin, but will not show your location.)

Each tree page also has a QR code that you can scan to load the tree’s page into your phone. So you can view the tour on your desktop, then scan the QR code on the screen with your phone and use it to navigate straight to a particular tree. If a tree on the tour has a physical label, there will be a QR code sticker on the label as well. This is one way to know that you have located the right tree. It also allows anyone who discovers the QR code to load the tree’s web page into their portable device. (If your portable device does not have a QR code reader, check the Apps Store where you can download one for free.)

Where to park Parking on the Vanderbilt Campus can be challenging because there are few designated visitor spaces. The  Visitor Parking page contains information about possible places to park, but for this tour it is recommended that you park in the Wesley Place parking garage because it is near the start of the tour and contains many pay-by-the-hour parking spaces that can be utilized by visitors. There is free parking on the north side of Scarritt Place opposite the garage, but it is for a limited time and is usually filled by mid-morning on weekdays. Do not park in reserved or zone parking without a permit.  You will be ticketed and possibly towed.

Starting the tour The tour starts on the bridge between Peabody and Main Campus over 21st Avenue. From the Wesley Place garage, go west to 21st Ave.S. then turn left and walk along the street past the University School (USN). When you reach Edgehill Avenue, cross the street, then turn left to enter the pedestrian bridge. To start the tour at the beginning, click on the “Begin” button above.

You can also start from any other location by clicking on one of the tree points on the tree tour map, then clicking on the link in the resulting bubble. Not all 60+ trees are displayed at the initial zoom level, so use the + button on the map to see more detail.

A third option is to pick a tree from the list below. The tree’s page has a map showing its location.

List of trees on the tour: 1: pin oak 1-483 2: bald cypress 4-942 3: southern red oak 2-123 4: white ash 4-1245 5: holly 2-560 6: white basswood (no ID) 7: redbud 2-424 8: black walnut 2-502 9: shingle oak 2-437 10: bald cypress 4-1089 11: tulip tree 2-260 12: bitternut hickory 4-1047 13: chinkapin oak 3-140 14: black walnut 3-119 15: tree of heaven 3-192 16: red maple 2-336 17: Osage orange 2-250 18: northern red oak 2-351 19: bur oak 2-691 “bicentennial oak” 20: black oak 2-854 21: September elm 2-528 22: eastern redcedar 2-856 23: American elm 2-674 24: river birch 3-300 25: Shumard oak 3-196 “Big Al” 26: hophornbeam 3-771 27: sycamore 3-52 28: white pine 3-210 29: sweetgum 4-274 30: persimmon 4-733 31: princess tree 4-1022 32: box elder 3-178 33: American elm 3-589 34: sugar maple 3-366 35: silver maple 3-722 36: cottonwood 3-62 37: red mulberry 3-388 38: green ash 3-87 39: swamp chestnut oak 3-250 40: mockernut hickory 2-568 41: sweetbay magnolia 2-70 42: Chinese magnolia 2-345 43: cucumber magnolia 2-558 44: tulip tree 2-780 45: pawpaw 2-946 46: ginkgo 2-1014 47: northern hackberry 2-253 48: sugarberry 2-285 49: bush honeysuckle (no ID) 50: bigleaf magnolia 2-242 51: black gum 2-511 52: black gum 2-1025 53: bur oak 2-412 54: white oak 2-304 55: dogwood 2-539 56: southern magnolia 2-247 57: hemlock 2-978 58: dawn redwood 2-985 59: American hornbeam 2-950 60: beech 2-194 61: sassafras 2-993 62: willow oak 2-795 63: northern catalpa 2-930

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We want to meet you! Use this page to find on-campus and virtual events, plan your trip, and learn more about Nashville.

On-Campus Events

Student-guided group tours and class visits are available. Space is limited and event registration is limited to prospective students only. 

To sign up to attend a group tour or a class visit, select the date you want to visit on the  admissions events calendar ,   choose the tour and/or class visit, and fill out the registration form.  Registration for tours and class visits will open later this summer.

Prospective students are welcome to take a  self-guided tour of the law school Monday - Friday, 8:30 AM - 4:00 PM CT.

The Admissions Office has temporarily relocated outside of the law school building. Please contact the Admissions Office at 615.322.6452. 

The Admissions Office will be closed on the following  dates: June 19, July 3 - 4, September 4, November 23 - 24, December 22 - January 1, 2024. 

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Each year, representatives from VLS attend recruitment events throughout the country including Law School Fairs and LSAC sponsored events. For a full list of events, click here .

Prospective students are welcome to contact the Admissions Office at 615-322-6452 or [email protected] . Please note that Nashville is in the Central Time Zone and all event/session times are in Central Time.

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JD Information Sessions are offered through the fall semester. Information Sessions are presentations given by an admissions officer about the law school, academic programs, Nashville, student life, etc., and provide the opportunity for prospective students to ask questions.

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Nashville International Airport  is less than 10 miles from campus and is served by most major airlines.

Nashville is located at the intersection of three major interstates: I-40, I-65 and I-24. Nashville is approximately 4 hours from Atlanta, 3 hours from Birmingham, 3 hours from Knoxville, 3 hours from Louisville, and 3 hours from Memphis. Vanderbilt is less than 2 miles from downtown Nashville.

Campus visitors and Vanderbilt community members can use hourly paid parking spaces in select parking lots and garages across campus for short-term and visitor parking needs. These spaces are available 24 hours a day, seven days a week and are marked with ParkMobile signs.  Parking is $8.50/hour as of July 2023.  All pay by phone transactions will incur a $0.45 transaction fee, including each extension of parking.  

The closest parking lots with paid parking spaces include Lot 5A (parking spots #10 - 15) and Lot 5B (spots #97 - 102). 

If spaces are not available, please visit  Parking Services  for Visitor Parking information.

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Vanderbilt University students forcibly enter the university’s main administration building, March 26, 2024

Last Friday, police officers dressed in riot gear arrested at least 20 masked students at Pomona College in Claremont, Calif., after some 150 people stormed the university president’s office and refused to leave for more than three hours. Organized by the student-led group Pomona Divest Apartheid, the demonstrators from Pomona, as well as nearby Scripps and Pitzer Colleges, were protesting the removal of an anti-Israel “mock apartheid wall” on campus.

Earlier this month, Columbia University indefinitely suspended four students for participating in a campus event called “Resistance 101,” led by prominent Palestinian activist Khaled Barakat, who appeared by video to discuss the war in Gaza that started in the wake of Hamas’ Oct. 7 attacks. Barakat reportedly said that “friends and brothers in Hamas, Islamic Jihad” were excited to see student groups in the U.S. protesting on their behalf.

And at Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tenn., late last month, four students were arrested after staging a sit-in at the university’s main administration building for nearly 24 hours, demanding that the Tennessee school divest from companies that operate in Israel.

Six months after anti-Israel activity began to dominate many college campuses in the wake of the Oct. 7 Hamas attacks — with minimal action taken by college presidents to quell rising levels of antisemitism — administrators at schools such as Pomona, Columbia and Vanderbilt have taken a harder line in recent weeks. As a result, Jewish leaders are wondering whether these three schools’ tougher responses could represent the leading edge of a trend that takes root across the country.

Jacob Baime, CEO of the Israel on Campus Coalition, told Jewish Insider that other universities will only take similar action if they are pressured to do so. “The suspension of anti-Israel activists at schools like Vanderbilt University is a step in the right direction in addressing the campus climate,” Baime said. 

In a statement to Pomona College on Friday, the school’s president, Gabrielle Starr, warned that “any participants in today’s events… who turn out to be Pomona students, are subject to immediate suspension. Students from the other Claremont Colleges will be banned from Pomona’s campus and subject to discipline on their own campuses.” 

“I don’t see this as a victory and I don’t know if it’s going to change anything in the future,” Ayelet Kleinerman, a fourth-year Pomona student from Israel who founded the group Haverim Claremont in 2022, told JI . “There is a lot of backlash here from students, faculty and community members on the outside,” she continued. “So we will have to wait and see how things unfold, but when people are arrested I don’t see it as a victory — it’s sad that we got to a situation in the first place where police needed to be called. We shouldn’t have gotten to this in the first place.” 

Kleinerman, who started Haverim as a way for Jewish and non-Jewish students to connect and learn about antisemitism — something she felt was missing from on-campus groups in the past — said the climate on campus for Jewish students since Oct. 7 “has been hard and intimidating, [filled] with a lot of [anti-Israel] protests.” 

For months, Jewish students and alumni from the Claremont Consortium— Pomona College, Scripps College, Claremont McKenna College, Harvey Mudd College, and Pitzer College (known as the 5Cs), have urged administrators to take action in response to what they called in a Nov. 6 email “harassment of Jewish Students at Pomona College.” 

“We are particularly alarmed by the administration’s acquiescence in the face of gross violations of College policy and applicable law,” the letter, signed by a group of 5C alumni said, pointing to several incidents at Pomona, including a demonstration on Oct. 20 when “Claremont Students for Justice in Palestine and Jewish Voice for Peace held a rally at Pomona’s Smith Campus Center with several hundred attendees. At that rally, SJP and JVP members assembled, at the Smith Campus Center (a shared space intended for use by all College students), a display honoring the Hamas terrorists responsible for the genocidal attacks of October 7.”

According to a university statement , “Unidentified, masked individuals have repeatedly disrupted and/or forced the cancellation of events on our campus since October 2023, including Pomona’s Family Weekend events, a gathering for high school counselors and Harvey Mudd College’s Presidential Inauguration.”

“Our response has been graduated, with repeated warnings and reminders of policy,” the statement continued. “President Starr has repeatedly offered to meet with students and multiple dialogue sessions have been held. However, the violations from some individuals have escalated.” 

“I wish they stopped it earlier,” Kleinerman said. “I think [Friday] was just the last straw on a long list of breaking policies.” 

Later this month, the Associated Students of Pomona College are slated to vote on a non-binding student referendum that calls for an academic boycott of Israel and divestment from companies with ties to Israel. 

In a campus-wide email, a copy of which was obtained by JI, Starr wrote that “the referendum raises the specter of antisemitism.” 

In an open letter sent Monday from Pomona College tour guides and admissions interns, dozens of students wrote that “the school’s decision to call in over 30 militarized police officers to arrest 20 unarmed, peaceful student protesters… was an egregious violation of students’ safety at their place of living and learning.” The signatories threatened to “strike [giving campus tours] until our student demands are met” and “will begin every tour, webinar, and information session introduction with an overview of what happened on April 5th. Specifically, we will make it clear that this institution suppresses student voices.” 

Also on Monday, Pomona faculty met to vote on a resolution created by several faculty members regarding the arrests. According to The Student Life , the campus newspaper, the meeting was centered around a resolution that condemned Starr’s handling of the demonstration and called for the removal of the suspensions on arrested students. Faculty are expected to reconvene later in the week to finish the discussion and to vote on the resolution.

At Columbia, students identified as participants in the “Resistance 101” meeting were dismissed from their campus housing on Wednesday and given 24 hours to vacate, according to the campus newspaper, the Columbia Spectator . 

Columbia conducted an investigation into the meeting using an outside firm, university President Minouche Shafik said in a statement, and charged the four students found to have participated in the event with violating campus policies, endangerment, disruptive behavior, among other charges, according to the Spectator .

“On March 24, an event took place at a campus residential facility that the University had already barred, twice, from occurring. It featured speakers who are known to support terrorism and promote violence,” Shafik said in a statement. “I want to state for the record that this event is an abhorrent breach of our values.”

Shafik, as well as Columbia’s board chairs, are slated to testify next week at a congressional hearing on campus antisemitism. The suspensions were a contrast from several other “unauthorized” events that were allowed to take place with little response from the administration. While the groups Students for Justice in Palestine and Jewish Voice for Peace remain suspended as official student groups, neither organization has ceased organizing on-campus events .

According to witnesses, some of the unauthorized events by the anti-Israel groups have included holding protests featuring chants of “Intifada, Intifada, long live the Intifada” and “From the river to the sea, Palestine will be free.” Deans have done nothing to stop the events the school claimed were canceled, students on campus told JI in December . 

Vanderbilt is among several universities that have traditionally been quiet regarding the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, but are suddenly seeing their first-ever anti-Israel activity, including Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions campaigns, in the months after the Oct. 7 terror attacks and the start of Israel’s war against Hamas in Gaza.

The late March demonstration, organized by the Vanderbilt Divest Coalition, was a response to the administration’s move to quash a first-time BDS referendum , scheduled to take place in March; administrators said that a boycott of Israel would violate Tennessee state law and jeopardize the state and federal funding the school receives. All of the protest participants who breached the building will be placed on interim suspension, a Vanderbilt spokesperson told JI at the time. 

“It’s too soon to tell whether the way these university administrators handled these situations is an indication of a strong trend, but their responses are certainly encouraging,” Miriam Elman, executive director of the Academic Engagement Network, told JI. 

“Clearly conveying and enforcing reasonable time, place, and manner restrictions on student protests and demonstrations is sound policy and practice,” she continued. “These measures are critical and will greatly improve the campus climate for everyone. This applies also to the suspension of student organizations that disobey the rules.”

Elman said that university leaders are “typically hesitant to weigh in on student speech and free expression.”

“But given the egregiousness of recent incidents and conduct, including students blocking access to and commandeering school buildings and disrupting events and normal university operations, they really have no choice,” she continued. 

James Pasch, the Anti-Defamation League’s senior director of national litigation, called it “refreshing to see some college presidents stepping up to enforce campus policies.” 

“It is incumbent on all university administrators to put an end to the escalation of antisemitic discrimination and harassment on their campuses,” he told JI, adding that, “one vital way to do that is to implement robust enforcement of applicable campus rules and policies, including but not limited to the Code of Student Conduct and University Space Rules for antisemitic harassment, demonstrations, and signage on campus.” 

The ICC’s Baime, while hailing the moves by the three universities, said, “The Jewish community must continue to pressure universities to protect Jewish students by enforcing their codes of conduct. While Vanderbilt’s response should be applauded, it’s not nearly enough. We must continue to press universities to stand up for what is right.” 

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April 5, 2024   An update to the campus community about the protest at Kirkland Hall   

Dear Vanderbilt community,   

I write to share an update about the student accountability process for the students who forcibly entered Kirkland Hall as part of a protest on Tuesday, March 26.    

Vanderbilt’s goal in establishing student conduct policies and holding students accountable for them is to preserve an environment where everyone is assured safety, well-being and an opportunity to flourish.    

After a thorough review of the incident, including examination of evidence and interviews with students, the Student Accountability, Community Standards and Academic Integrity staff issued a range of findings and sanctions that took the individual circumstances of each student’s conduct into account. The sanctions included disciplinary probation as well as suspension and expulsion. Students have 10 days to appeal their case to the university’s Appellate Review Board, a body consisting of faculty and students. Detailed information about our accountability process can be found in the university’s Student Handbook .   

During the appeal process, students will be able to return to classes, and Student Affairs will continue to work with each student to provide support resources for mental health, academic progress and welfare.   

The gravity of this situation and these outcomes weighs heavily on those of us charged with carrying out our responsibility as leaders; we fully understand that student choices and decisions can lead to serious and costly consequences.   

I thank everyone for their efforts to pull together and support our educative mission even in the midst of these difficult circumstances.    

I am confident that we will move forward together, committed to our shared collaborative culture and mission in support of one another and in service to society.    

Sincerely, 

C. Cybele Raver

Provost and Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs  

April 4, 2024 UPDATE: Noted Nashville attorney to review Vanderbilt’s response to reporter during March 26 campus protest  

After the arrest, and subsequent release, of a member of the media during a student protest on campus, Vanderbilt University is reviewing its response to the incident and its policies regarding media access to campus.   

Vanderbilt has asked noted Nashville attorney Aubrey B. Harwell, Jr. to lead the review.    

Harwell, co-founder of the law firm of Neal & Harwell, PLC, is expected to review what led to the decision to detain the Nashville Scene reporter, explore any steps that could or should have been taken before his detention, and consider how Vanderbilt can best balance its commitment to free expression with its need to maintain safety, privacy and operations of the campus community.   

Harwell’s past clients include Bridgestone Americas, Tennessee Valley Authority, Pilot Flying J, the University of Tennessee, The Tennessean and the former Nashville Banner.   

Harwell and his firm have extensive expertise and experience in First Amendment law, representing media members and private citizens in matters including advocacy for freedom of expression and freedom of the press, and access to the courts. Harwell will be joined in this review by his partners Trey Harwell, former president of the Nashville Bar Association, and Ronald G. Harris, a recognized authority on First Amendment freedoms who has represented NewsChannel 5, among other media outlets.   

The findings of the review, expected to be complete in late spring, will be made public.    

March 28, 2024 Vanderbilt University Statement   

As a private entity, Vanderbilt has the right to set safety, security, and privacy policies and guidelines around access to private property and buildings on our campus and to remove individuals who attempt to violate those policies. However, our dedication to the values of free expression, including freedom of the press, requires a commitment to openness and accountability. Upon further reflection and recognizing the valuable input we have received, Vanderbilt will review whether the administration’s response to the Nashville Scene reporter’s attempts to gain access to a restricted building on Tuesday aligned with our core values. Vanderbilt will also review and explore updates to our campus access and media policies to best ensure our commitment to freedom of the press going forward.  

March 27, 2024 A follow-up message to the campus community about the protest at Kirkland Hall on March 26, 2024  

Dear Vanderbilt community,  

I am writing with an update on yesterday’s occupation of Kirkland Hall.  

All students remaining inside Kirkland left voluntarily around 6 a.m. after forcibly entering the building [see video] shortly after 9 a.m. Tuesday. All protest participants who breached the building will be placed on interim suspension.  

The Metropolitan Nashville and Davidson County Magistrate’s Office has charged three students with Class A misdemeanor assault for pushing a Community Service Officer as well as a staff member who offered to meet with them as they entered Kirkland Hall on Tuesday. A fourth student has been charged with vandalism after breaking a window in the building’s exterior Tuesday evening.  

A reporter was detained outside the building after making repeated attempts to enter several locked doors that were clearly marked as such and being asked to leave. He was later released and not charged.  

Another group of student protesters gathered outside the building this morning. The university will work with them to help ensure that their protest remains consistent with the university’s policies for peaceful demonstration.  

Free expression is a core value at Vanderbilt, as is civil discourse. Our policies allow for members of the Vanderbilt community to protest and demonstrate regarding issues they care deeply about, and dozens of peaceful demonstrations have occurred in recent months. In consideration of safety and the university’s normal operations, we, as a matter of policy, define the time, place and manner limitations. The safety and well-being of our community is a top priority. The university will take action when our policies are violated, when the safety of our campus is jeopardized and when people intimidate or injure members of our community.  

A university community, by definition, will rarely be in full agreement on any issue. The challenge is to move forward together despite our differences, based on our shared values and common purpose. This is what we must do—and what we shall do in the days to come.  

Sincerely,  

Daniel Diermeier  

Chancellor  

March 26, 2024 A message to the campus community about the protest at Kirkland Hall on March 26, 2024  

Early this morning, a group of students forcibly entered Kirkland Hall, the university’s main administration building [see video] , which was closed for ongoing construction (and clearly marked as such). Some of the students physically assaulted a Community Service Officer to gain entrance and proceeded to push staff members who offered to meet with them.  

Student Affairs staff took a graduated approach to de-escalating the situation. First, they asked students to leave. When the students refused to leave, staff told them that their actions violated university policy and that they would be subject to disciplinary action. After several hours, the university began issuing interim suspensions. At this hour, many of the students remain in the building. We will keep the campus community informed as the situation warrants.  

In addition, this afternoon a reporter was detained outside the building after making repeated attempts to enter several doors and being asked to leave. He was later released and not charged.  

Free expression is a core value at Vanderbilt, as is civil discourse. Our policies allow for members of the Vanderbilt community to protest and demonstrate regarding issues they care deeply about. Indeed, dozens of peaceful demonstrations have occurred over the past several months. In consideration of safety and the university’s normal operations, we, as a matter of policy, define limits on the time, place and manner of protests. The safety and well-being of our community is a top priority. The university takes action when our policies are violated, when the safety of our campus is jeopardized and when people intimidate or injure members of our community.  

The war in Gaza and the passionate opinions on all sides of the issue pose a test of our commitment to free expression and respectful dialogue. We hold fast to this defining value of our university while prioritizing safety and our ability to carry out our mission. Tonight, I urge each of us to reflect on how we can continue to do the hard work of voicing our opinions and advocating for what we care about while at the same time respecting and preserving this vital community that enables us to do so much more together than we could do alone.  

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Vanderbilt steel drum bands to share the stage with Nashville middle schoolers in collaborative event on April 14

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Apr 8, 2024, 4:27 PM

The exotic musical sounds of the Caribbean will ring in Ingram Hall on Sunday, April 14, as Blair School of Music presents the acclaimed Vanderbilt Steel ‘Dores Steel Drum Band and special guest musicians from the DuPont Hadley Middle School. College musicians and 7th and 8th grade students will perform together in a unique collaborative concert.

For Mat Britain, the director of the Steel ‘Dores Steel Drum Program, the event is one that has been long in the making. “I’ve known Nathaniel for five years and we share a love for steel drum education. The collaboration concert idea came about when we were both attending an educators conference in Iowa more than a year ago. My collegiate steel drum students are excited to hear a middle school steel band.”

The DuPont Hadley Middle School program was founded when it received a $10,000 Mockingbird Foundation Grant in 2020, which was used to purchase steel pan instruments. “It has been a dream of mine to start a middle school steel band in Tennessee since I graduated with my teaching degree,” said Nathaniel O’Neal, the director of the DuPont Hadley program. “Ours is the only steel band in Metro Nashville Public Schools.”

The Steel Dores’ and DuPont Hadley ensembles will each perform standalone selections in the concert, before joining forces to perform side-by-side. The evening will also feature three additional Vanderbilt student steel pan ensembles, as well as two bands from the Osher Lifelong Learning Institute, composed entirely of members over age 50. In all, nearly 100 performers will take the stage, ranging in age from early teens to mid-80s.

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Vanderbilt University chancellor: Why we want to build a graduate campus in West Palm Beach

V anderbilt University wants to open a campus in downtown West Palm Beach that would feature a business school as large as its existing one in Nashville, plus a college for computer science and artificial intelligence, Vanderbilt Chancellor Daniel Diermeier told The Palm Beach Post.

"We have been thinking for a while about a potential second campus, and it became clear that South Florida, and West Palm Beach and Palm Beach, would be a great location," Diermeier said in an exclusive interview Wednesday.

The campus would be built on seven acres of government-owned land formerly slated for a University of Florida graduate campus.

Diermeier's comments followed his April 1 visit to Palm Beach County , where he met with several government officials to drum up support for the Vanderbilt campus in West Palm Beach.

During the evening of April 1, Diermeier attended a fundraiser at the Palm Beach home of billionaire Stephen Ross. Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis also attended the gathering, according to the governor's public schedule.

The Palm Beach event raised $100 million out of the $300 million sought by the university for the expanded campus, the sources said. Diermeier would not comment on the fundraising details.

But Diermeier was eager to talk about why Vanderbilt wants a campus in two of the nation's fastest-growing cities, Nashville and West Palm Beach.

University campus expected to capitalize on Wall Street South

A West Palm Beach campus would capitalize on Palm Beach County's growing reputation as Wall Street South and provide students jobs in finance companies. A Vanderbilt campus also would "turbocharge" the creation of new businesses established by students, creating an innovation industry, Diermeier said.

Diermeier lauded the sophistication of Palm Beach's residents, whose business and financial acumen, as well as their deep pockets, could invest in and guide companies created by graduates of the business and computer schools. Having a university of Vanderbilt's caliber is needed "to unlock the full potential of West Palm Beach and Palm Beach County," Diermeier said.

The Vanderbilt West Palm Beach campus would provide graduate degrees geared to the finance, data and technology industries and enroll roughly 1,000 students, he said.

The Vanderbilt campus is being pitched for two acres owned by the City of West Palm Beach and five adjacent acres owned by Palm Beach County. The properties are along South Tamarind Avenue, from Datura Street south to Fern Street, in a section of the city dubbed Government Hill.

The land is the same property that both the county and the city had planned to donate for free to UF for a graduate campus in business and artificial intelligence.

But the deal fell apart last year after efforts to secure an adjacent five acres from Palm Beach billionaire Jeff Greene failed. The Vanderbilt campus would not need the Greene land.

Diermeier said he was aware of the former UF campus plan, and he was approached by someone about the downtown land during a Vanderbilt football game.

Vanderbilt's top ranking and its strong alumni network

While not an Ivy League school, Vanderbilt is known as a “Southern Ivy” because of its selective admissions process and strong academic reputation.

Vanderbilt is ranked No. 18 among national universities, and its business school, the Owen School of Management, is No. 27 in the nation in a three-way tie with the University of Texas-Dallas and the University of Rochester, according to U.S. News & World Report.

Current enrollment at Vanderbilt's business school is 617 students, a university spokesman said. The business school has 97 faculty members, and the annual cost of attendance is about $103,000.

Vanderbilt boasts a $10 billion endowment and counts many wealthy alumni and business leaders among its supporters.

These supporters include Vanderbilt trustee Jon Winklereid, a Hobe Sound resident and chief executive of TPG Holdings/TPG Capital LP, an asset management firm with a market value of $16 billion.

There's also Cody Crowell, a Vanderbilt University graduate, a managing partner at Frisbie Group in Palm Beach and a key figure in the Vanderbilt deal. During a recent talk before a Palm Beach chamber meeting, Crowell was credited with coming up with the idea of bringing Vanderbilt to West Palm Beach.

Vanderbilt has more than 1,100 alumni in Palm Beach County and in the northern part of neighboring Broward County, according to the university.

The West Palm Beach campus plan, in the works for about a year, is being advanced by Ross'  Related Cos. , a global real estate developer, and the  Frisbie Group . Both companies are building offices, condominiums and apartments in  West Palm Beach.

In a March interview, Related Urban Chief Executive Ken Himmel said having a Vanderbilt University business school campus in West Palm Beach would transform the city into a major destination.

"Every single city we've worked in has been anchored by a great university," Himmel said.

How would Vanderbilt get control of the taxpayer-owned land?

Diermeier said Vanderbilt would only build a sizable West Palm Beach campus if it received support from the business community — and government officials. He said that Vanderbilt officials have not discussed receiving state money for the venture, "although we would welcome that."

Diermeier said he met with some but not all county commissioners on April 1. He said there was interest in the campus plan, which he said is still in the early stages. He added there were discussions about the government-owned land and how the university could "have access to it."

Diermeier said Vanderbilt did not ask for anything at this point. But he was vague when asked if Vanderbilt would be willing to pay for the seven acres of taxpayer-owned land.

Vanderbilt would only open a West Palm Beach campus "if the community wants us," Diermeier said. "One way to demonstrate that is by co-investing. We 100% need that … This is a marriage that has to work for us."

People familiar with the Vanderbilt campus plan say its backers want the city and county to donate the land for free. Private money raised for the venture would go toward the university's endowment, which generates income that finances the university's programs.

But not every business leader is on board with handing over taxpayer land, especially to a university with a $10 billion endowment.

More: Is University of Florida's grad school campus in West Palm Beach in peril?

Some business officials, who asked not to be named, said any effort to attract an out-of-state private university using public land should be done via a public request for proposals, not a behind-the-scenes deal with one institution.

Two county commission members said the meeting with Diermeier was introductory and didn't get into specifics.

"I’m very proud that a prestigious university like Vanderbilt is considering building a graduate school in Palm Beach County. This was really a just-get-to-know-me meeting," said Palm Beach County Mayor Maria Sachs.

"This was all very preliminary," Commissioner Gregg Weiss said. "It's getting to know what Vanderbilt is about. There is a real workforce need for the business school graduates that would be attending this school. The details still need to be worked out, but it is a step in the right direction."

Palm Beach County's uneven record on public land donations

Ambitious ventures involving free taxpayer land have a mixed record in Palm Beach County.

To lure California-based Scripps Research Institute to Jupiter in 2006, $580 million in state and county money went to Scripps to create its Florida campus.

In addition, 70 acres in public and private land was leased to Scripps after Scripps officials promised that a "biotech village" of companies and jobs would be built on the vacant Palm Beach Gardens property. The land is next to the Alton community on Donald Ross Road.

The land was to be conveyed to Scripps after a 15-year contract between the county and Scripps was up. While the county staff said Scripps met the contract requirement to create 545 jobs and operate in the county for 15 years to be eligible for the land transfer, the biotech village never materialized .

Nevertheless, in 2022 the 70-acre parcel was transferred to Scripps for $1, as per the agreement with the county. UF Health now controls the land as part of its acquisition of Scripps Florida.

Meanwhile, the UF graduate school in downtown West Palm Beach didn't go as planned for Florida taxpayers, either.

The 12-acre campus, first announced in 2021, was supposed to offer graduate-level programs in business, engineering and law with a focus on financial technology, or fintech, and cybersecurity.

More: Much-touted UF campus plan for downtown West Palm Beach dies, leaving huge disappointment

In 2022, the Florida Legislature awarded UF $100 million for the West Palm Beach campus. But the legislation contained a giant loophole.

If the West Palm Beach campus didn't happen, the $100 million could stay with UF to use as it sees fit elsewhere in the state in a location outside Palm Beach County.

The campus didn't happen, and UF kept the money anyway.

Soon after the UF deal showed signs of dying, West Palm Beach Mayor Keith James said talks were afoot to bring a top, private, out-of-state university to the downtown land.

More Vanderbilt meetings planned with public officials

Diermeier said he plans to return to Palm Beach County during the next month to meet with more county commission members about the Vanderbilt campus.

He said Vanderbilt is skilled at having good relationships with state and local officials in Tennessee, and he expressed confidence that county and city government leaders in Palm Beach County would feel comfortable working with the university, too.

He also believes the more people learn about Vanderbilt's plans for the West Palm Beach campus, the more they will be supportive.

In addition to a doubling of Vanderbilt's business school size, the West Palm Beach campus also would feature degrees in the university's newest college, the College of Connected Computing.

This just-created interdisciplinary college would feature computer science, AI, data science and related fields. It also would collaborate with all of Vanderbilt’s schools and colleges.

Diermeier likened the potential effect of a Vanderbilt West Palm Beach campus to the effect that Stanford University had on Silicon Valley — and the resulting explosion of innovative technology companies that emanated from there.

"The impact that research universities can have on a community is very significant," Driemeier said.

Before becoming chancellor at Vanderbilt, Diermeier formerly was an assistant professor at the Stanford Graduate School of Business, then held key leadership positions at Northwestern University and the University of Chicago.

Staff writer Mike Diamond contributed to this report.

Alexandra Clough is a business writer and columnist at the  Palm Beach Post . You can reach her at  [email protected] . Twitter:  @acloughpbp .  Help support our journalism. Subscribe today.

This article originally appeared on Palm Beach Post: Vanderbilt University chancellor: Why we want to build a graduate campus in West Palm Beach

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