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3 days ago | 
vanderbilthustler.com | Alison Winters |Brina Ratangee
With data from the Student Organization Fund, The Hustler took a look at the annual budget allocations granted to 298 registered student organizations by Student Organizations, Leadership and Service over the past three years. SOLS allocated a total of $2,049,555 across all RSOs for the 2024-25 academic year — a nearly 6% increase from the $1,941,904 total allocated for 2023-24. The proposed budget for the 2025-26 academic year totals $2,126,878, a nearly 4% increase from last year.
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1 week ago | 
vanderbilthustler.com | Brina Ratangee
Our safety has never been guaranteed. But recent funding and personnel cuts have put all Americans, including students, at increased risk. In Wisconsin, Milwaukee, schools shut down amid an ongoing lead crisis and were denied assistance by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention due to the elimination of vital divisions responsible for managing certain crises such as this one.
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3 weeks ago | 
vanderbilthustler.com | Brina Ratangee
The Graduate Student Council passed resolutions urging the university to implement protections for researchers affected by federal funding cuts and international graduate students on March 4 and 28, respectively. The former resolution passed unanimously; the latter passed with all in favor and one abstention. Both resolutions speak to uncertainties surrounding new federal policies.
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1 month ago | 
vanderbilthustler.com | Brina Ratangee
VUMC confirmed its elimination of all DEI programs and initiatives — an announcement that followed a letter from Sen. Marsha Blackburn expressing concern over alleged concealment of this content. 3 minutes ago VUMC has officially ended all of its diversity, equity and inclusion programs, a VUMC representative told The Hustler. The statement comes after Sen.
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1 month ago | 
vanderbilthustler.com | Brina Ratangee
Several students cited close ties to the FSU community and voiced their calls-to-action in light of the tragedy. Apr 20, 2025 Vanderbilt students with ties to the Florida State University community expressed distress and calls-to-action after news broke of a mass shooting at FSU’s Tallahassee, Florida, campus that killed two and injured six individuals on April 17. One of the deceased was the university’s campus dining director; the other’s identity, though not a student, remains undisclosed.
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1 month ago | 
vanderbilthustler.com | Brina Ratangee
Jessica Coulombe, a third-year student at Vanderbilt Law School, filed a lawsuit against Balfour Beatty Communities LLC, the joint owners with Axium Infrastructure of The Broadview at Vanderbilt, on April 10 for negligence, premises liability, fraudulent concealment and failure to warn about the presence of mold in her apartment. Coulombe is suing BBC for compensatory damages in an amount to be determined at trial — specified as no less than $40,000 — as well as non-economic and punitive damages.
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1 month ago | 
vanderbilthustler.com | Tasfia Alam |Alison Winters |Brina Ratangee |Barrie Barto
The Hustler spoke with Chancellor Daniel Diermeier for the last debrief of the 2024-25 school year. He shared insight into the university’s response to federal policy changes, cuts to federal funding and limitations on initiatives promoting diversity, equity and inclusion, as well as immigration enforcement on college campuses. Additionally, Diermeier discussed March Madness, this year’s commencement speaker and his advice to the Class of 2025 ahead of graduation.
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2 months ago | 
vanderbilthustler.com | Brina Ratangee
UPDATED: This article was updated at 11:17 a.m. on March 31 to include a comment from a VUMC faculty member on the announcement. VUMC President and CEO Jeff Balser shared a video message with VUMC faculty and staff on March 26 announcing that the medical center is working to reduce its budget by $250 million for the fiscal year beginning on July 1.
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2 months ago | 
thecontributor.org | Brina Ratangee
Not many have been with The Contributor as long as Shorty has, who joined in 2009 — only two years after the paper’s founding. Born in Jefferson City, Tenn., Shorty moved to Texas with his family at a young age. Upon graduating from high school in the late 70s, he served for nearly four years with the Marine Corps in Korea and Japan. Arriving back to Texas, he’d heard about opportunities for work in Nashville and set off to see what the city had in store.
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Feb 24, 2025 | 
vanderbilthustler.com | Brina Ratangee |Alison Winters
U.S. Senate Commerce Committee Chairman Ted Cruz (R-Texas) released a database on Feb. 11 flagging 3,483 National Science Foundation grants awarded during the Biden-Harris administration toward “questionable projects” allegedly promoting diversity, equity and inclusion or advancing “neo-Marxist class warfare propaganda.” Among the listed grants are 15 awarded to Vanderbilt totaling $4,941,175, one $20,000 grant to VUMC and seven collaborative research projects awarded $400,378 in funding.
