Vanderbilt Administration

Gordon Gee will leave after seven years as Vanderbilt University's chancellor to return to The Ohio State University as president, a position he held from 1990 to 1997. His resignation is effective Aug. 1. Read More

The director of investments at Emory University was named chief investment officer at Vanderbilt University, responsible for managing its $3.4 billion endowment. Read More

Emeritus Vanderbilt Law Professor Theodore (Ted) Smedley, who helped define law education at Vanderbilt and who thrust the law school onto the national scene, died of a heart attack June 15. He was 94. Read More

The Vanderbilt Owen Graduate School of Management has rewarded five talented and dedicated faculty members with endowed chairs. Read More

The Vanderbilt Owen Graduate School of Management is putting more intellectual power into its already outstanding faculty, by welcoming six new researchers and teachers to the school. Read More

David K. "Pat" Wilson, former chairman and life member of the Vanderbilt University Board of Trust whose personal and family influence and generosity are evidenced in nearly all areas of the university, died Sunday at home. He was 87. Read More

Vanderbilt anthropologist Tom D. Dillehay has been named to a distinguished class of scientists, politicians, authors, artists and others, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (AAAS) announced April 30. Read More

Fourteen retiring faculty members were recognized during Vanderbilt's May 11 commencement ceremony when the university honored their years of service and bestowed on them the title of emeritus or emerita faculty. Read More

The Vanderbilt Board of Trust elected four new members during its spring meeting April 26-28. They are Claiborne P. Deming, Edith Carell Johnson, Douglas W. Shorenstein and graduating senior Andrew Wilson. Read More

Dear Members of the Vanderbilt Community, Today our support goes out to our colleagues, our peers, our brothers and sisters at Virginia Tech. Words fail to encompass a calamity of such magnitude. At this raw stage, we can offer our attention, our consideration, and our sympathy. We respond with… Read More

On Feb. 28, 2007, Vanderbilt University and Laborers International Union of North America, Local 386, which represents approximately 600 employees in the custodial, grounds, food service and skilled crafts categories, reached an agreement on a new three-year contract. The contract was ratified by the union membership March 2, 2007. Read More

Vanderbilt University has named Clinical Professor of Management David Owens to assistant to the provost for strategic process innovation. Read More

Patricia Pierce, who has been in a leadership role with Vanderbilt University's Opportunity Development Center almost from its inception, will retire April 30. Read More

Vanderbilt University and Laborers International Union of North America, Local 386, the union representing approximately 600 employees in the custodial, grounds, food service and skilled crafts categories have reached a tentative agreement on a new three-year contract. Read More

This fact sheet provides information about Vanderbilt employment policies and ongoing labor negotiations between the university and the Laborers International Union of America, which represents approximately 600 Vanderbilt employees in the custodial, grounds, food service and skilled crafts categories. Read More

Vanderbilt University was welcomed Thursday into the Million Dollar Circle of the United Way of Metropolitan Nashville, in recognition of generosity during the 2006 United Way campaign. Read More

Four new development officials have joined the staff of Vanderbilt University‘s Department of Development and Alumni Relations. Read More

Former U.S. Rep. and Senate candidate Harold Ford Jr. has been appointed visiting professor of public policy at Vanderbilt University and will teach a class on American political leadership. Read More

Two business professionals are taking charge of essential parts of the Owen Graduate School of Management. John Roeder has been promoted to Owen‘s director of admissions and Joyce Rothenberg is now director of Owen‘s Career Management Center. Read More