with the Nashville Entrepreneurship Center, and several social venture programs.
In April 2024, Vanderbilt University students joined other campuses in support of Palestine by setting up an encampment on campus. The protestors demanded that the university boycott companies that do business in Israel and demanded an end to what they call a Palestinian genocide. The protests escalated when the administration blocked a student vote on a BDS resolution. Students were forcibly removed by police from a building and three were arrested for misdemeanor assault, with those three students later expelled. More than 170 faculty members opposed the university's response to the protests. With the start of the 2024–25 academic year, Vanderbilt required all first-year undergraduate students to attend mandatory meetings about the university's approach to free speech
== Academics ==
As of 2021, Vanderbilt had an enrollment of 7,111 undergraduate and 6,685 graduate and professional students, for a total of 13,796 students. …
