Landon Cabell Garland: The Prince of Southern Educators

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The same year she received the award, the show writers named a recurring fictional character after her which is portrayed by Arlondriah. 5. N’Neka Garland’s Net Worth

During his time as chancellor, Zeppos served as the chair of the Association of American Universities Board of Directors, a role through which he further established himself as a national advocate for the importance of higher education. He was also a member of the Knight Commission on Intercollegiate Athletics and served on the boards of the Consortium on Financing Higher Education and Vanderbilt University Medical Center. He also served as president of the Southeastern Conference Executive Committee and co-chair of the United States Senate-appointed Task Force on Government Regulation of Higher Education.In August 2019, Zeppos stepped down from the role of chancellor. In November 2019, the Board of Trust voted to give Zeppos the newly-created endowed Cornelius Vanderbilt Chancellor Emeritus Chair. To honor Zeppos' commitment to the residential college model, the Board also announced that residential college opening along West End Avenue in 2020 will be named the Nicholas S. Zeppos College.

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Lucinda Rose Garland Lewis: She married Burwell Boykin Lewis, Confederate cavalry officer, lawyer, and congressman from Alabama, who was also a president of the University of Alabama; they had seven daughters, including Bertha Lewis Miller, who married Hugh Barr Miller, and whose son, Hugh Barr Miller, Jr, is considered an important figure during WWII His papers, the Landon Cabell Garland Papers, 1830–1893, include correspondence, diaries, speeches, sermons, a report to the Vanderbilt University Board of Trust, and personal and biographical materials. The collection is small, only 1/3 of a cubic foot. These are personal papers of Chancellor Garland and are not to be confused with his university papers, which are housed in the University Archives. This collection provides a small snapshot of Chancellor Garland's personal life, with the family correspondence providing the main interest. Garland taught chemistry and natural history at Randolph-Macon College in Ashland, Virginia, from 1833 to 1834, eventually being elected chair of the department. [2] [5] From 1836 to 1846, he served as the second president of Randolph-Macon College. [2] [6]

Before long, however, his plan for a section-wide seminary was incorporated with a plan for a section-wide university to be established at Nashville, and when in 1875, as a result of the friendship between Bishop McTyeire and Cornelius Vanderbilt, Vanderbilt University was established, it had McTyeire as president of its Board of Trust, and Garland as its first chancellor. Until the death of Bishop McTyeire in 1889, these two worked in a harmony so close that it was hard to know which of them was first responsible for any given policy. The progress of the University was most gratifying, but in 1893 the chancellor resigned from his executive duties, and devoted himself wholly to teaching, continuing almost to the day of his death. Kastro: Kastro (stagrename) was born as Katari Terrance Cox in 1976. He is an American Rapper, he is best known for his association with Tupac Shakur in the group "Outlawz" After refusing requests from several colleges to become their president, including one from William and Mary, he went, however, in 1847 to teach at the University of Alabama. Maurice Garland Fulton (1877–1955; professor of English and history at New Mexico Military Institute in Roswell, New Mexico) [12] [13]

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Later, as chancellor, Carmichael's political skills resulted in what may be the greatest single achievement of his administration, the establishment of the Joint University Libraries serving Vanderbilt, Peabody and Scarritt College. He was president there from 1855 to 1865, and after the buildings were demolished by Federal troops in the final spring of the Civil War, he undertook for a while to raise funds sufficient to restore them. a b Fuselier, Kathryn; Yee, Robert (October 17, 2016). "The Legacy of Slavery at Vanderbilt: Our Forgotten Past". Vanderbilt Historical Review. Archived from the original on October 2, 2017 . Retrieved September 19, 2017.

Louise Frances Garland: She married Milton W. Humphreys (1844-1928), who had been recruited by Garland as the first professor of Greek and Latin at Vanderbilt University. Garland taught chemistry and natural history at Randolph-Macon College in Ashland, Virginia, from 1833 to 1834, eventually being elected chair of the department. From 1836 to 1846, he served as the second president of Randolph-Macon College.

When Alexander Heard retired in 1982, the board named Joe B. Wyatt to succeed him. As chancellor, Wyatt sought to place Vanderbilt in the very top tier of American universities.