Vanderbilt University announced aggressive expansion moves, including plans to raise $250 million for a graduate campus near West Palm Beach and an acquisition of the San Francisco campus of the California College of the Arts (CCA), which will close in 2027. Vanderbilt has also signaled growth in New York City. The moves follow the private university’s reported endowment strength and are pitched as strategic efforts to broaden graduate and professional programming while preserving parts of CCA’s legacy through a Vanderbilt‑run institute and arts programming.