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Vanderbilt University

The John Seigenthaler Center, located on the Vanderbilt University campus in Nashville, is home to teaching facilities and offices of the Diversity Institute and First Amendment Center. The facility is run by the Freedom Forum and is named for John Seigenthaler, founder of the First Amendment Center, founding editorial director of USA TODAY and chairman emeritus of The Tennessean.

The facility opened in 1993 in a new building funded by a $2 million grant from the Freedom Forum. The building, which also houses the Vanderbilt Institute for Public Policy Studies, incorporated the former residence of the president of Peabody College, now a part of Vanderbilt University. Work was completed in November 2001 on an $8 million building expansion, which is home to offices and classrooms of the Diversity Institute and administrative offices of the Freedom Forum.