Co-Sponsors of Symposium 2000

Co-Sponsors of Symposium 2000

Blair School of Music - Mark Wait, Dean

Blair, a mecca for Nashville music lovers since 1964, became part of Vanderbilt in 1981. The Bachelor of Music degree is offered in performance, composition/theory, and musical arts. Blair's gifted faculty includes internationally known performers, award-winning composers, and nationally recognized musicologists. Blair's goal is to graduate musicians thoroughly schooled in their art, broadly educated, and prepared for careers in music, related professions, or the finest professional schools.

College of Arts and Science - John H. Venable, Dean

On its own, Vanderbilt's College of Arts and Science would stand out as one of America's finest liberal arts colleges. The college offers majors in more than twenty-five fields and eight interdisciplinary majors. It is the home of some of the best teachers, writers, inventors, and researchers, and is home to 3,200 undergraduates. The college is the center of liberal learning for the entire university. Through the study of humanities, students acquire a deeper appreciation of art, drama, music, and literature... the threads that bind us all together.

Vanderbilt Divinity School - James Hudnut-Beumler, Dean

Vanderbilt Divinity School is the only interdenominational university-based theological school in the South and one of only four in the entire country. Vanderbilt holds fast to its belief that religious institutions and society are best served by ministers and teachers trained in a rigorous academic environment of openness, diversity, and tolerance.

Vanderbilt is unique among ecumenical theological schools because it educates ministers and religious scholars side by side. The faculty members are nationally and internationally known for their writing and teaching. Scholarly journals regularly contain feature articles by professors at Vanderbilt. Among the faculty there are twelve religious traditions represented, including branches of Judaism, mainline Protestantism, and Roman Catholicism.

School of Medicine - Steven G. Gabbe, M.D., Dean

The first diplomas issued by Vanderbilt University were to sixty-one Doctors of Medicine, February, 1875, and the school has continued its long commitment to the education of physicians who are firmly grounded in basic medical science; who can recognize and treat disorders in their patients and provide appropriate preventive counseling; who can obtain, evaluate, and apply the results of scientific research; and who can translate their proficiency into effective humanitarian service. The medical school curriculum contains within its core and elective components the full spectrum of medicine. The faculty, which represents a variety of specialties and many strong research programs, has a national and international reputation for excellence in the biomedical sciences and clinical care.

Peabody College - Camilla P. Benbow, Dean

Peabody College, one of the nation's foremost independent colleges of teacher education, was merged with Vanderbilt University in 1979. Today about 1,400 students are enrolled at Peabody, with more than one-third of them in post-baccalaureate professional degree programs preparing for careers as classroom teachers and professionals in other areas related to education and human development.

Peabody College traces its lineage to Davidson Academy, organized in 1785. Its emergence in 1875 as a college dedicated to the training of teachers and its relocation to a new campus in 1914 were made possible largely through the beneficence of George Peabody, America's great educational philanthropist.

School of Nursing - Colleen Conway-Welch, Professor and Dean

Vanderbilt School of Nursing has a national reputation for excellence in nursing education and attracts students from across the nation and from several foreign countries. The school was founded in 1909 as the Training School for Nurses of Vanderbilt University Hospital and became a part of Vanderbilt University Medical Center in 1985. Together they have developed a collaborative, interactive model of nursing practice, education and research, focusing on quality patient care delivery.

The School of Nursing adheres to the American Nurses Association's Code for Nurses. The Code for Nurses is based on belief about the nature of individuals, nursing, health, and society. Recipients and providers of nursing services are viewed as individuals and groups who possess basic rights and responsibilities and whose values and circumstances command respect at all times.

School of Engineering - Kenneth F. Galloway, Dean

The Vanderbilt University School of Engineering is the largest and oldest private engineering school in the South. Classes offering engineering instruction began in 1879. The school's program emphasizes the relationship of the engineering profession to society and prepares engineers to be socially aware as well as technically competent.

The environmental courses the school offers include water quality management, air pollution control and hazardous waste engineering. The latter course covers generation, chemistry, and toxicology of hazardous materials, cleanup of hazardous materials spills and abandoned site investigation.

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