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Meet Daniel Diermeier and Vanderbilt University
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Stephen Dubner provides a crisp institutional portrait: Vanderbilt is a major research university in Nashville with roughly 7,300 undergraduates and 6,300 graduate students, top-ranked programs in medicine and education, and strong business and law schools. Its football team — historically embarrassing in the powerful SEC — has even started winning. Most strikingly, Diermeier has navigated the federal government's assault on universities with unusual grace. Diermeier himself acknowledges this is not typical, confirming Vanderbilt is 'a little bit of an outlier.' The teaser for institutional neutrality lands as both an explanation for the success and the source of significant controversy.
Vanderbilt University enrolls about 7,300 undergraduates and 6,300 graduate and professional students.
The University of Chicago's Calvin Report, commissioned in 1967, established the modern doctrine of institutional neutrality with the maxim that the university is a 'home for critics, not itself the critic.'
