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Scholarships and Financial Aid Category

Expanded Aid program: make it plain

Oct. 7, 2008—Sometimes it’s hard to get your brain around financial aid.  You may have seen this, but my friend Amy Wolf and the folks with the VUcast have really done a nice job with this video that puts this new aid program into simple terms. Go ‘Dores!  5-0 baby!  

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Three Promises

Oct. 3, 2008—I might have the greatest job in the world. I get to travel. I get to meet intelligent, interesting young people. When not traveling, I go to work on a beautiful campus in the middle of Nashville. I even have a season baseball ticket.   Still, the best part is that I can make some...

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New Expanded Aid Program

Oct. 1, 2008—Greetings from Nashville! For a football fanatic like myself, I love the fall; especially when my favorite teams are doing well. This fall, however, has held an additional focus for me in the development and launching of Vanderbilt’s New Expanded Financial Aid Policy. If you are not familiar with our announcement and the details, please...

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The Story on Scholarships: A Guest Blog from Heather

Jan. 25, 2008—Hi there. I’m Heather, Director of Scholarships here at Vanderbilt, and I’ll be your guest blogger today. Your regularly scheduled bloggers asked me to step in and share a little bit about what’s going on in my world right now in the hopes that it might shed some light on our scholarship selection process. So,...

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