Ideas without an owner — yet
Ideas raised in VE conversations, soundboards, or by students that aren't action items yet.
Here are ideas you can support, comment on, or help turn into proposals.
What this page is for. This is the front door for anything without a home yet — a comment in a VE meeting, a recurring student suggestion, an open soundboard theme. Once an idea is routed to a workstream, its Workstream Lead moves it toward a project and eventually a deliverable for VE review.
A recurring Thursday evening concert series on campus — came up in a VE conversation about giving students a reason to stay on campus midweek.
Why it matters: Midweek campus energy is low, and VE is looking for low-cost, recurring reasons for students to stay on campus rather than leave for the weekend early.
Recurring pre-game or in-game traditions (chants, walk-ups, section rituals) that give the student section a consistent identity across sports.
Why it matters: Vanderbilt doesn't have a signature student-section tradition the way peer schools do — VE sees this as a brand and atmosphere gap worth closing.
Student reactions to the campus bookstore experience and retail assortment — surfaced through open soundboard responses, not yet scoped as a project.
Why it matters: Students consistently flag the bookstore as feeling generic — direct student read on assortment and experience could shape a retail refresh conversation.
VE wants a clearer read on how current students perceive Lifelong Learning Society programming before considering changes to it.
Why it matters: VE is weighing changes to Lifelong Learning programming and wants current-student perspective before committing, not after.
General campus programming concepts (pop-up events, seasonal moments, cross-team collaborations) that don't map cleanly to one workstream yet.
Why it matters: Cross-team programming ideas tend to stall because no single workstream owns them — parking them here keeps them visible instead of getting dropped.
Outdoor or Commons-based movie nights, possibly themed around game days or finals week. Raised by a student during a soundboard response.
Why it matters: Low-effort, high-turnout campus programming that multiple students independently mentioned — a quick win for visible student-facing activity.
A running list of smaller fan-engagement concepts students keep raising informally — not yet worth a full VE request individually, but worth tracking together.
Why it matters: Individually small, but the pattern of repeated student requests signals real appetite for more fan-engagement programming worth tracking as a standing item.
Routed ideas become action items
Once a Workstream Lead converts a routed idea into an action item, it can be claimed, worked, and submitted back as a deliverable ready for VE review.