Vanderbilt University

• Type: 4 yr, Grad School, 10,000-15,000, Urban
• Region: Southeast
• Address:
• City: Nashville
• State: TN
• ZIP:
• URL: http://
• involvement in the Real Food Challenge?
  Level 2: Active in the network
• On campus concessions: Quiznos, McDonalds
• Dining Services Director/Executive Chef: Camp Howard
• Needs and challenges: -Closer relationship with local farms and gardens -Compost expansion -Food systems education and food waste awareness -more local food needed in menu items, but with a large contract provider there is very little flexibility
• Successes and achievements: -Pilot farmer's market facilitated by Food Security Partners of Middle Tennessee -Organic/Fair Trade market in undergraduate dormitory -Introducing sustainability overseer into VU Dining -Food Politics Reading group -Ongoing research and dissertation projects -Increasing support for food waste composting -Efforts to incorporate locally sourced food in the University Children's Hospital
• Composting: pre-consumer food waste
• Food activities: organic purchasing, student organizations
• Relevant academic programs: Course(s) offered, Research, Internships, Extracurricular Activities, Student-run programs
• comments: Graduate level Food Politics reading Group sponsored by the Robert Penn Warren centre