On one fateful day, Vanderbilt’s world was flipped upside down when the U.S. News 2024 Best National College ranking was released. I woke up that morning to a mass outcry by students over Vanderbilt’s not-so-graceful exit out of top-15 status and pitiful entrance into the dreaded top-20. Fizz an anonymous, campus-specific social media forum.
Chancellor Daniel Diermeier and Provost C. Cybele Raver of the $58,130-a-year university sent an email to alumni slamming the rankings and blaming a change in methodology for its drop.
The University of Chicago settled a federal antitrust lawsuit over financial aid. What does that mean for the 16 remaining defendants in the class action case? The University of Chicago will pay $13.2 million to settle a financial aid antitrust lawsuit in which it was one of 17 institutions accused of illegally colluding to limit student financial aid packages. Now, with the settlement pending approval from a judge, officials from the other 16 institutions must decide what to do: follow the University of Chicago’s lead and settle the lawsuit, or continue an expensive and likely lengthy legal battle.
Stronger than at any other time in our history, we are positioned to do more than just meet the challenges of our times. We have what it takes to thrive and lead to define and become the great university of this century.