Chancellor: Colleges Shouldn’t Take a Stand on Political or Social Issues
‘The purpose of the university is to encourage debate, not settle it,’ Vanderbilt Chancellor Daniel Diermeier said during a panel discussion. A pro-Palestinian student group at Vanderbilt University in Tennessee demanded that the school denounce, divest from, and cut any connections to Israel in December—to which Chancellor Daniel Diermeier promptly responded, “No.” “I sent a