Melanie Moran

A standing room only crowd of students, faculty, staff and community members filled the multipurpose room in Kissam Center Tuesday, Jan. 30 to learn more about Nashville's proposed transit plan. Read More

Due to winter weather conditions, Provost and Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs Susan R. Wente has cancelled classes for Friday, Jan. 12, and Chancellor Nicholas S. Zeppos has declared an administrative leave day. Essential employees MUST report to work to maintain core operations. Staff who do not have essential assignments need… Read More

  The forecast for Friday, Jan. 12 calls for a chance of freezing rain, ice and snow. If weather conditions necessitate the cancellation of classes, text, email and phone messages will be sent to all students, faculty and staff by 5 a.m. Friday morning through the Everbridge messaging platform. The information will… Read More

Kamal Saggi has been appointed interim dean of the College of Arts and Science. His term began Jan. 1 and will continue through June 30, 2018, while the search for the next dean is underway. Read More

Employee parking fees will become an after-tax deduction effective January 2018 due to new federal tax law. Read More

Vice Chancellor for Athletics and University Affairs and Athletics Director David Williams has been named the 2017 Tennessean of the Year by the "Tennessee Tribune," Nashville’s African American newspaper. Read More

Lauren Benton will step down as dean of the College of Arts and Science effective Dec. 31. The provost will name an interim dean and a search committee in January. Read More

Providing ongoing updates on initiatives related to the 2016 COACHE faculty satisfaction survey is the aim of the expanded COACHE website launched today by the Provost's Office of Academic and Faculty Affairs. Read More

Building on current strengths and “seizing opportunities to make the humanities at Vanderbilt truly exceptional” are at the core of the report from the Chancellor’s Committee on the Humanities, posted online today. Read More

Provost and Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs Susan R. Wente has charged a new committee comprising authors, faculty and university leaders to make strategic recommendations for Vanderbilt University Press. Read More

"We will continue to support and embrace our students regardless of immigration status, citizenship or nationality," Chancellor Zeppos said in a statement following the rescinding of the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program Tuesday, Sept. 5. Read More

Faculty Insights, a new weekly workshop series designed to support faculty development, has launched this fall, with two workshops scheduled this week. Read More

Assistant Vice Chancellor for News and Communications Elizabeth P. Latt will retire from her role as leader of external and internal university communications June 30 after 27 years of service to the university. Read More

George C. Hill will retire from his post as vice chancellor for equity, diversity and inclusion July 1. He will immediately resume his role as professor emeritus in medical education and administration and professor emeritus of pathology, microbiology and immunology. Read More

Faculty union election ballots were tallied in a June 6 public proceeding by the National Labor Relations Board. Read More

Facebook's founding engineer and Vanderbilt alumnus Jeff Rothschild discusses the company's earliest days in the latest episode of "The Zeppos Report." Read More

Vanderbilt joined 29 other top universities in filing a joint amicus brief April 20 urging the U.S. Court of Appeals to uphold the injunction against the Trump administration's travel ban. Read More

Chancellor Nicholas S. Zeppos interviews Janette Sadik-Khan, one of the world's leading voices on urban transportation, for "The Zeppos Report." Read More

The Faculty Working Group appointed to analyze and assess the results of a faculty survey conducted last spring has prepared a preliminary report on the survey’s topline findings and will seek faculty input at two town hall meetings this spring. Read More

Vanderbilt University and 16 of the nation’s other top universities have filed a joint amicus brief urging that the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Washington’s Feb. 3 stay of the Jan. 27 Executive Order regarding immigration and refugees be upheld. Read More