Students cheer during the school’s sold-out football game against Charleston Southern.
Photographer: Landon Edwards/BloombergSpending & Earning
Football, Academics and No Politics: Vanderbilt Booms in Trump Era
Vanderbilt University, a happy ‘unicorn’ of higher education, is drawing fire from its peers for not standing up to the White House.
Cheers went up the moment Daniel Diermeier appeared for the season kickoff of the Vanderbilt Commodores.
At the 40,350-seat FirstBank Stadium in Nashville, student-fans decked in black and gold, the fighting colors of Vanderbilt University, jostled for photos.