We exist to empower our diverse community to live purposeful, inspired lives. Valor is a 3-school charter management organization (CMO) based in Nashville, Tenn. It currently operates three public charter schools serving grades 5-12 with approximately 1875 students.
The mission of Vanderbilt Hillel is to provide quality programming, leadership opportunities, and professional support to the University community in order to foster Jewish education and awareness, strengthen community and identity as uniquely Jewish and universally human, and promote the values of pluralism, Tikkun Olam, Israel, and Jewish peoplehood so that students can develop significant relationships and meaningful Jewish experiences.
We seek to maximize both “breadth” (the number of students involved in Hillel activities) and “depth” (the length and quality of the experience those students have). This is accomplished through our micro-community model, which focuses on creating ongoing, discrete campus communities based on specific interests and communalities between the group members. These groups of students function both independently as well as within the broader Vanderbilt Hillel framework to create experiences that inspire both the students in that specific community as well as the campus as a whole.
Vanderbilt University is a center for scholarly research, informed and creative teaching, and service to the community and society at large. Vanderbilt will uphold the highest standards and be a leader in the: * quest for new knowledge through scholarship, * dissemination of knowledge through teaching and outreach, * creative experimentation of ideas and concepts.
W.O. Smith/Nashville Community Music School makes affordable, quality music instruction available to children from low-income families.We transform lives through music!
