TBA Law Blog


Posted by: Stacey Shrader Joslin on Oct 14, 2025

Vanderbilt University Chancellor Daniel Diermeier continues to evaluate whether or not to join a compact with the Trump administration that would give the university priority access to federal funding, but multiple campus groups have weighed in on the issue, Tennessee Lookout reports. The faculty senate voted last week to recommend the university reject the deal, as did the Vanderbilt graduate student union and the undergraduate student government. In related news, MIT rejected the same deal on Friday, according to the Nashville Banner.