50 Years - Opening Doors, Transforming Lives
Vanderbilt Kennedy Center Timeline
How quickly the world has changed for children and adults with intellectual and developmental disabilities in 50 years. Families, community organizations, researchers, clinicians, staff, students, educators, public policy makers - all have worked together to create change. We will create an even better future together over the next 50 years. The VKC Timeline places VKC milestones within the context of the national disabilities rights movement.
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1965-1970
Nicholas Hobbs, Ph.D.
[Photo from the George Peabody College Photograph Collection, Vanderbilt University Special Collections and University Archives]
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1970-1971
Donald Stedman, Ph.D.
[Photo from the George Peabody College Photograph Collection, Vanderbilt University Special Collections and University Archives]
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1971-1983
H. Carl Haywood, Ph.D.
[Photo from the George Peabody College Photograph Collection, Vanderbilt University Special Collections and University Archives]
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1983-1990
Alfred Baumeister, Ph.D.
[Photo from the George Peabody College Photograph Collection, Vanderbilt University Special Collections and University Archives]
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1990-1991
Steven Warren, Ph.D.*
[Photo from the George Peabody College Photograph Collection, Vanderbilt University Special Collections and University Archives]
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1991-2000
Travis Thompson, Ph.D.
[Photo from the George Peabody College Photograph Collection, Vanderbilt University Special Collections and University Archives]
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2000-2002
Stephen Camarata, Ph.D.*
[Photo from the George Peabody College Photograph Collection, Vanderbilt University Special Collections and University Archives]
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2002-2008
Pat Levitt, Ph.D.
[Photo Gerlinde Photography, Michael Hopkins]
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2008-2017
Elisabeth Dykens, Ph.D.
[Photo VU/Mary Donaldson]
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2017-present
Jeffrey L. Neul, M.D., Ph.D.
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*Acting Director