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The following is a list of chancellors of Vanderbilt University. No. Image Chancellor Life Tenure 1 Landon Garland: 1810–1895 1875–1893 2 James Hampton Kirkland:
Eugene Biel-Bienne – Austrian painter, former faculty of the department of fine arts in the College of Arts and Science. Camilla Benbow – dean of Peabody College at Vanderbilt University, scholar on education of gifted youth. John Keith Benton (1896–1956) – dean of the Vanderbilt University Divinity School, 1939–1956.
Vanderbilt University (informally Vandy or VU) is a private research university in Nashville, Tennessee.Founded in 1873, it was named in honor of shipping and railroad magnate Cornelius Vanderbilt, who provided the school its initial $1 million endowment in the hopes that his gift and the greater work of the university would help to heal the sectional wounds inflicted by the American Civil War.
The Vanderbilt family is an American family who gained prominence during the Gilded Age. Their success began with the shipping and railroad empires of Cornelius Vanderbilt, and the family expanded into various other areas of industry and philanthropy. Cornelius Vanderbilt's descendants went on to build grand mansions on Fifth Avenue in New York ...
Daniel Diermeier (born July 16, 1965) [2] is an American political scientist and university administrator. He is serving as the ninth chancellor of Vanderbilt University. Previously, Diermeier was the David Lee Shillinglaw Distinguished Service Professor at the University of Chicago, where he also served as provost. [3]
Michael Brick. Elwood Gordon Gee (born February 2, 1944) is an American academic administrator. As of 2023, he is serving his second term as president of West Virginia University; [1] [2] his first term there was from 1981 to 1985. Gee is said to have held more university presidencies than any other American. [3]
Z. Nicholas S. Zeppos. Categories: Vanderbilt University people. Vanderbilt University administrators. Presidents by university or college in the United States. Hidden category: CatAutoTOC generates no TOC.
Columbia University ( PhD) Bennett Harvie Branscomb (December 25, 1894 – July 23, 1998) was an American theologian and academic administrator. He served as the fourth chancellor of Vanderbilt University, a private university in Nashville, Tennessee, from 1946 to 1963. Prior to his appointment at Vanderbilt, he was the director of the Duke ...