<body><div>Vanderbilt University's nationwide footprint is expanding to New York City.The school, which announced an expansion to southern Florida earlier this month, said Thursday that it entered into a lease agreement with The General Theological Seminary to take over its historic campus in the Chelsea neighborhood — including 13 buildings and approximately 150,000 square feet.Vanderbilt is still in the process of receiving approval for the lease and any future programming from New York state government.“To properly provide a transformative education to our students, and help our scholars and researchers achieve their greatest ambitions and most meaningful impact, we must make the broadest and richest range of opportunities available to them — wherever those opportunities exist,” Chancellor Daniel Diermeier said in a statement. “As home to leading institutions in finance, media, technology and the arts, and as a jumping-off point to the rest of the world, New York offers unbounded opportunities.”Vanderbilt University reported that approximately 7,800 alumni and 740 current students live in or are from the New York area.Last year, the university created a "regional administrative hub" in New York for its Development and Alumni Relations, the Office of Career Advancement and Education and the Office of Enrollment Affairs. That office will relocate to the Chelsea campus.The university said other programming details are still in the early stages and would be pending state approval. A faculty advisory committee has convened to discuss how best to utilize the campus, led by Vice Provost for Undergraduate Education Tiffiny Tung. Undergraduate cost of attendance is $94,000, according to Vanderbilt's website and its Opportunity Vanderbilt program provides financial aid to applicants from households that earn less than $150,000 a year.The General Theological Seminary plans to continue limited operations on the Chelsea campus with two-week intensive classes and maintaining some office space. Vanderbilt emphasized that the seminary will remain a completely separate entity, despite their proximity on the campus."This agreement ensures that GTS will maintain a year-round presence and will continue to provide future leadership for The Episcopal Church in our historic home," GTS President Ian Markham said in a statement. "We believe that Vanderbilt shares our commitment to be a strong partner to the neighborhood and local community.”<figure><img src="https://img.particlenews.com/image.php?type=thumbnail_580x000&amp;url=0OB9Lj_0vkxNt1P00" alt="https://img.particlenews.com/image.php?url=0OB9Lj_0vkxNt1P00" width="960" height="640" ><figcaption>Vanderbilt University announced its plans for a New York expansion with this Chelsea campus Thursday, Sept. 26.</figcaption></figure>New York isn't the only city Vanderbilt is eyeing for its growth plans.<figure><img src="https://img.particlenews.com/image.php?type=thumbnail_580x000&amp;url=2i4jfF_0vkxNt1P00" alt="https://img.particlenews.com/image.php?url=2i4jfF_0vkxNt1P00" width="960" height="689" ></figure></div></body>

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Tennessee's Vanderbilt University expands to New York, takes over Manhattan seminary

Vanderbilt University's nationwide footprint is expanding to New York City. The school, which announced an expansion to southern Florida earlier this month, said Thursday that it entered into a lease agreement with The General Theological Seminary to take over its historic campus in the Chelsea neighborhood — including 13 buildings and approximately 150,000 square feet.