Where do you fit?
Each role has its own dashboard, tools, and entry point. Select the one that applies to you.
Send requests, test ideas with students, review structured output, and track active workstreams — without managing day-to-day student operations.
Route work, manage team priorities, synthesize student input, and prepare project briefs for VE review.
Respond to live VE questions, contribute to active projects, and turn ideas into usable deliverables.
Learn how VEA works and express interest in joining future cohorts. Recruitment opens fall 2026.
From VE question to usable output
Simple entry points. Serious operating depth. Vanderbilt Enterprises stays in control — students do the work.
VE leadership sends a question or project request to students in under two minutes.
Students respond to the prompt. Responses collected and organized by student directors.
Student directors distill responses into a structured summary.
Approved ideas become formal project briefs with owners, timelines, and metrics.
Vanderbilt Enterprises reviews the brief and decides: approve, revise, or archive.
Approved projects move to execution. Results tracked and fed back into the system.
VE leadership sends a question or project request to students in under two minutes.
Students respond to the prompt. Responses collected and organized by student directors.
Student directors distill responses into a structured summary.
Approved ideas become formal project briefs with owners, timelines, and metrics.
Vanderbilt Enterprises reviews the brief and decides: approve, revise, or archive.
Approved projects move to execution. Results tracked and fed back into the system.
Use a template or write your own. VEA routes it to the right team automatically.
Directors synthesize raw student input into structured memos and project briefs.
Dashboard shows what's in progress, what needs your input, and what's ready to review.
Simple entry points for every role
Send questions or projects. Review student output. Track progress. Without managing the day-to-day.
- → Ask students a question
- → Submit a project request
- → Review weekly brief
Submit ideas. Respond to live VE questions. Join projects across brand, athletics, and fan engagement.
- → Submit a new idea
- → Respond to an open VE question
- → Explore active projects
Organized around Vanderbilt Enterprises priorities
Brand Team
- Brand identity & storytelling
- Merchandise concepts
- Social media ideas
- Brand consistency
Strategy Team
- Research & student insights
- Project development
- Partnerships
- Opportunity mapping
Fan Engagement Team
- Athletics activations
- Stadium pop-ups
- Student attendance
- Game-day experience
Use visual references to clarify project direction and make briefs easier to review. 8 boards across all teams.
Where students fit right now
Students are not being broadly recruited yet. The organization is being built first — so students join something real, not something still being figured out.
- Structure and governance drafted
- Platform prototype being finalized
- CSL approval path being explored
- Submit ideas via the portal — reviewed when recruitment opens
- Current Think Tank members get first opportunity
- Leadership roles offered before broad recruitment
- Team structure finalized with early members
- Broad student interest opens
- Applications for team roles
- Idea submissions, soundboard responses, project workstreams
- Formal org registration and Handshake presence
Ready to contribute?
VEA is in early development. Submit an idea, join the interest list, or access the portal.