Chancellor Search Advisory Committee shares neighborhood suggestions findings | Vanderbilt Information

The Vanderbilt neighborhood broadly endorses the course the college has taken within the final decade and needs the subsequent chancellor to proceed that momentum, in keeping with an evaluation of responses to an internet survey and different efforts to interact college, college students, workers and alumni within the seek for a brand new chancellor.

The Chancellor Search Advisory Committee has publicly shared a report on its findings—drawn from suggestions from greater than 2,500 college students, college, workers and alumni throughout a number of city halls and listening periods, and thru the greater than 1,677 responses to an internet suggestions type.

“The suggestions gathered by the Advisory Committee has been considerate, wide-ranging and illuminating,” stated Bruce R. Evans, chairman of the Vanderbilt College Board of Belief. “Above all, it has confirmed that Vanderbilt’s subsequent chancellor have to be a confirmed chief with a daring imaginative and prescient for persevering with the college’s robust momentum and an unwavering dedication to our give attention to shared governance, transparency and collaboration.”

The Chancellor Search Advisory Committee was charged with gathering, synthesizing and offering recommendation to the Chancellor Search Committee, which is chaired by Evans, on the priorities the subsequent chancellor ought to tackle, in addition to discerning the qualities that particular person ought to possess.

“We have been struck by the overall settlement of these responding that every one need to capitalize on the college’s current momentum and additional advance Vanderbilt’s excellent achievements and status,” stated John Geer, chair of the Chancellor Search Advisory Committee, dean of the Faculty of Arts and Science and Gertrude Conaway Vanderbilt Professor of Political Science. “That momentum is rooted in strategic investments in college, workers and college students, and the subsequent chancellor ought to, given the suggestions we obtained, proceed on this path.”

The next key priorities have been gleaned from the studying and evaluation of the entire neighborhood suggestions:

• Constructing and retaining a extra numerous college that aligns with the college’s more and more numerous pupil physique
• Making a welcoming, inclusive campus for all
• Bettering the college’s analysis and educating infrastructure
• Rising assist for graduate {and professional} schooling
• Forging a extra outstanding international footprint
• Advancing the college’s mission in an period of rising considerations about increased schooling
• Investing meaningfully within the inventive arts and humanities
• Strengthening college governance
• Fostering collaborations between the college and Vanderbilt College Medical Middle
• Securing analysis funding within the face of shrinking federal assist
• Making certain glorious working situations and pay for employees as the price of residing in Nashville soars
• Rising hyperlinks between Vanderbilt and the encircling native and state neighborhood
• Financially sustaining the bodily plant and residential schools rollout

“The record displays the complexity of a giant, numerous establishment like Vanderbilt and means that the subsequent chancellor will face essential questions that may each outline the establishment and demand inventive options,” Geer stated.

Throughout the strategy of gathering the suggestions, the Search Advisory Committee, struck by the quantity and the richness of the narrative knowledge, determined that it will be helpful to research the responses as completely and as fastidiously as time would allow.

A subcommittee led by Tiffiny Tung, affiliate professor of anthropology, and John McLean, chair of the College Senate and Stevenson Professor of Chemistry, collaborated with the Workplace for Planning and Institutional Effectiveness to systematically analyze the survey knowledge.

“The report consists of an appendix that provides direct quotes from respondents—chosen by members of the Advisory Committee—each from the web type and, in some circumstances, personal correspondence,” Tung stated. “They’re supplied to flesh out the overarching themes mentioned by college students, college, workers and alumni within the on-line survey. Their phrases reveal the inherent complexity of the myriad priorities of a vibrant college neighborhood.”

The complete report is out there at vu.edu/chancellor-search.

Go to the Chancellor Search web site for added info and updates.