Vanderbilt University

===1970s to present===
In March 1978, Vanderbilt hosted the South African tennis team in [[Memorial Gymnasium (Vanderbilt University)|Memorial Gymnasium]] for the [[1978 Davis Cup|Davis Cup]].<ref name="washpostustanochoiceondavis">{{cite news|last1=Lorge|first1=Barry|title=USTA: No Choice On Davis Clash With S. Africa|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/sports/1978/02/01/usta-no-choice-on-davis-clash-with-s-africa/290ff3e4-d0f7-414b-82d7-65f9b201a735/|access-date=July 10, 2017|newspaper=The Washington Post|date=February 1, 1978}}</ref> The match was disrupted by [[Sporting boycott of South Africa during the apartheid era|anti-apartheid protesters]] who chanted "Don't play with apartheid",<ref name="washpostustanochoiceondavis"/> and a [[copy editor]] for ''[[The Tennessean]]'' was removed by police.<ref name="nytimesusdaviscupteambeats">{{cite news|last1=Amdur|first1=Neil|title=U.S. Davis Cup Team Beats South Africa|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1978/03/20/archives/us-davis-cup-team-beats-south-africa-us-davis-cup-team-beats-south.html|access-date=July 10, 2017|work=The New York Times|date=March 20, 1978}}</ref>

In 1979, Vanderbilt acquired [[Peabody College]], then called the "George Peabody College for Teachers", residing on 53 acres adjacent to the university.<ref>{{cite web|title = History of Vanderbilt University |url = http://www.vanderbilt.edu/about/history/ |access-date = March 23, 2015}}</ref> Peabody College traces its history to the 1785 Davidson Academy.

[[File:Kirkland Hall at Vanderbilt University.jpg|thumb|Kirkland Hall at Vanderbilt University]]
In the early 1980s, Vanderbilt University was an investor the [[Corrections Corporation of America]] prior to its IPO.<ref name="harmon">Harmon L. Wray Jr., [http://beck.library.emory.edu/southernchanges/article.php?id=sc08-3_011 Cells for Sale] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160201152305/http://beck.library.emory.edu/southernchanges/article.php?id=sc08-3_011 |date=February 1, 2016 }}, ''Southern Changes: The Journal of the [[Southern Regional Council]]'', Volume 8, Number 3, 1989</ref><ref name="donnaselmanbigbusiness">{{cite book |author1=Donna Selman |author2=Paul Leighton |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=qb3BAAAAQBAJ&pg=PA81|title=Punishment for Sale: Private Prisons, Big Business, and the Incarceration Binge |location=New York City |publisher=Rowman & Littlefield Publishers |date=2010|pages=81–82|isbn=978-1-4422-0174-3|quote=Pre-IPO shareholders included Vanderbilt University, where Thomas Beasley received a law degree (and which has done some research favorable to private prisons).}}</ref> The company was co-founded by [[Thomas W. Beasley]], a Vanderbilt Law School alumnus who was honored with a Distinguished Alumnus Award.<ref name="donnaselmanbigbusiness"/><ref name="vanderbiltawschooldistinguished">{{cite web |title=Distinguished Award Recipients |url=https://law.vanderbilt.edu/alumni/founders-circle/distinguished-award-recipients.php |website=Vanderbilt Law School |access-date=June 16, 2018}}</ref>

In 1989, the university began offering [[Posse Foundation]] [[scholarship]]s to groups of promising young leaders from urban backgrounds to increase their share of diverse students.<ref name="tennesseanhowvutacklestoughjob">{{cite news |title=How VU tackles tough job of lasooing more diversity |url=https://www.newspapers.com/image/113192084/?terms=%22Posse%2BFoundation%22 |access-date=June 16, 2018 |work=The Tennessean |date=November 19, 1995|page=58|via=[[Newspapers.com]]|url-access=registration }}</ref> By 1995, 4.23% of the undergraduate student body was African-American.<ref name="tennesseanhowvutacklestoughjob"/>

In 2001, the university determined to remodel the [[Undergraduate education|undergraduate]] experience by creating an academic residential college system.  Since then Vanderbilt has been constructing new buildings and renovating existing structures to support the college system.<ref name=Dobie>{{Cite web|last=Dobie|first=Bruce|title=Campus Revolution|url=https://www.nashvillescene.com/news/campus-revolution/article_93aa8858-ec60-5140-8da1-e079f9883c75.html|access-date=2022-02-05|website=Nashville Scene|date=April 18, 2002 |language=en}}</ref><ref name=600M>{{Cite web|date=2018-01-24|title=Vanderbilt to add 4 residential colleges in $600M project|url=https://apnews.com/article/853a24a8cfa94f48b7fbb44ebdf6a777|access-date=2022-02-05|website=The Associated Press|language=en}}</ref>

In 2002, the university decided to rename [[Confederate States of America|Confederate]] Memorial Hall, a residence hall on the Peabody campus to Memorial Hall.<ref>{{cite news |title = Confederate Memorial Hall renamed Memorial Hall |work = The Vanderbilt Register |date = September 19, 2002 |url = http://www.vanderbilt.edu/register/articles?id=3316 |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20120212182347/http://www.vanderbilt.edu/register/articles?id=3316 |archive-date = February 12, 2012 |access-date = May 24, 2007 }}</ref> Nationwide attention resulted, in part due to a lawsuit by the Tennessee chapter of the United Daughters of the Confederacy.<ref>{{cite news |last = Latt |first= Elizabeth P |title = Court ruling supports Vanderbilt decision to change name of building |work = The Vanderbilt Register |date = October 1, 2003 |url = http://www.vanderbilt.edu/register/articles?id=6663 |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20120212182351/http://www.vanderbilt.edu/register/articles?id=6663 |archive-date=February 12, 2012 |access-date = May 24, 2007 }}</ref> The Davidson County Chancery Court dismissed the lawsuit in 2003, but the [[Tennessee Court of Appeals]] ruled in May 2005 that the university must pay damages based on the present value of the United Daughters of the Confederacy's contribution if the inscription bearing the name "Confederate Memorial Hall" was removed from the building or altered.<ref>{{cite news |title = Appeals court rules on Memorial Hall dispute |work = The Vanderbilt Register |date = May 5, 2005 |url = http://www.vanderbilt.edu/register/articles?id=19550 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120212182359/http://www.vanderbilt.edu/register/articles?id=19550 |archive-date = February 12, 2012 |access-date = May 24, 2007 }}</ref> The Court of Appeals' decision has been critiqued by legal scholars.<ref>{{cite news |last = Brophy |first= Alfred L. |title = The Law and Morality of Building Renaming |work = South Texas Law Review  |year = 2010  |url = http://blurblawg.typepad.com/files/lmbr.pdf  }} Brophy's article "concludes with a caution that renaming can lead to the forgetting of historical context and an observation that memory is more important than renaming" (p. 37).</ref> In late July 2005, the university announced that although it had officially renamed the building, and all university publications and offices will refer to it solely as ''Memorial Hall'', the university would neither appeal the matter further, nor remove the inscription and pay damages.<ref>{{cite news |title = Vanderbilt drops suit over Memorial Hall |work = The Vanderbilt Register |date = July 25, 2005 |url = http://www.vanderbilt.edu/register/articles?id=20856 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120212182403/http://www.vanderbilt.edu/register/articles?id=20856 |archive-date = February 12, 2012 |access-date = May 24, 2007 }}</ref> In August 2016, the university agreed to remove the word "Confederate" from the building after "anonymous donors" donated $1.2 million to repay the United Daughters of the Confederacy.<ref name="tennesseanvanderbilttoremoveconfederate">{{cite news|last1=Tamburin|first1=Adam|title=Vanderbilt to remove 'Confederate' from building name|url=http://www.tennessean.com/story/news/education/2016/08/15/vanderbilt-remove-confederate-building-name/88771680/|access-date=August 15, 2016|work=The Tennessean|date=August 15, 2016|quote=Anonymous donors recently gave the university the $1.2 million needed for that purpose; the Vanderbilt Board of Trust authorized the move this summer.}}</ref>

In 2009, Vanderbilt instituted a no-loan policy. The policy states that any student granted admission and a need-based aid package will have an award that includes no student loans.<ref>{{cite web |title=Need-Based Financial Aid at Vanderbilt |url=http://admissions.vanderbilt.edu/vandybloggers/2010/08/need-based-financial-aid-at-vanderbilt/|website=Vanderbilt.edu |access-date=July 24, 2015}}</ref> Following this, in 2015, Vanderbilt implemented Opportunity Vanderbilt, which committed the university to need-blind admissions, meeting 100% of demonstrated financial need of admitted students, and including only grants in awards.<ref name="thetennesseandonorsgive200million">{{cite news |title=Donors give $200 million to support Vanderbilt financial aid program |url=https://www.newspapers.com/image/105001318/?terms=%22opportunity%2Bvanderbilt%22 |access-date=June 16, 2018 |work=The Tennessean |date=May 14, 2015|page=A5|via=[[Newspapers.com]]|url-access=registration }}</ref>

In 2011, the [[Oakland Institute]] exposed a university investment in [[EMVest Asset Management]], a private equity firm "accused of '[[land grabbing]],' or taking over agricultural land used by local communities through exploitative practices for large-scale commercial export farming in five sub-Saharan African countries.<ref name="oaklandfeb13">{{Cite web|date=2013-02-13|title=Vanderbilt University Divests from "Land Grab" in Africa|url=https://www.oaklandinstitute.org/vanderbilt-university-divests-land-grab-africa|access-date=2022-02-05|website=oaklandinstitute.org|language=en-US}}</ref> The revelation led to student protests in 2012.<ref name="oaklandfeb13" /><ref name="guardianlandgrab">{{Cite web|date=2011-06-08|title=US universities in Africa 'land grab'|url=http://www.theguardian.com/world/2011/jun/08/us-universities-africa-land-grab|access-date=2022-02-05|website=the Guardian|language=en}}</ref> By 2013, Vanderbilt administrators had divested from EMVest.<ref name="oaklandfeb13" />

In 2012, Vanderbilt built Elliston Hall in honor of Elizabeth Boddie Elliston of the Burlington Plantation.<ref name="usatodaybeyondyale"/>

In 2015, Vanderbilt opened a new innovation center, the Wond'ry, as part of its Academic Strategic Plan. The three-story, 13,000-square foot building is meant to serve as an interdisciplinary hub of knowledge for the Vanderbilt community, serving as the location of [[hackathon]]s, partnerships with the Nashville Entrepreneurship Center, and several social venture programs.<ref>{{Cite news |url=http://www.tennessean.com/story/money/2016/11/14/vanderbilts-wondry-spurs-school-wide-innovation/93292086/|title=Vanderbilt's Wond'ry spurs school-wide innovation|newspaper=The Tennessean|access-date=December 28, 2016}}</ref>