When Dr. André Churchwell, BS’75, was a biomedical engineering student at Vanderbilt, he was one of the few Black students enrolled at the university during the 1970s.  "I would walk across that campus, and no one would say a thing,” he says. “No, ‘Hello, how are you doing?’ Nothing. I didn’t know anybody, and they didn’t know me." Now serving as the vice chancellor for equity, diversity and inclusion and chief diversity officer for Vanderbilt, Churchwell says there’s some benefit to that experience.  “If you had asked me, after I finished Vanderbilt, if I would be coming back and doing this, I’m not sure I would’ve said that,” he says. “But as time went on, and my recognition of the education I received here and how it has transported me grew, I had to say, ‘Thank God for Vanderbilt.’”