2025-2026
- Part I. The University and Its Governance (Snapshot as of 8/18/2025)
- Part II. Appointment and Tenure (Snapshot as of 8/18/2025)
- Part III. University Principles and Policies (Snapshot as of 8/18/2025)
- Part IV. Disciplinary Actions and Grievances (Snapshot as of 8/18/2025)
- Part V. Faculty Awards (Snapshot as of 8/18/2025)
- Part VI. Faculty Benefits (Snapshot as of 8/18/2025)
- Part VII. Financial Procedures (Snapshot as of 8/18/2025)
- Part VIII. Vanderbilt University Compliance Program and Standards of Conduct (Snapshot as of 8/18/2025)
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Appendix A: Abbreviations
The complete term is used the first time it appears. It is noted below if the relevant term is specific to one part of the university, such as the School of Medicine.
ACC: Administrative Compliance Committee
AUP: Acceptable Use Policy
B-TRC: Tenure Review Committee (Blair)
CTTC: Center for Technology Transfer and Commercialization
CRO: Chief Research Officer (Vanderbilt University Medical Center)
ECEF: Executive Committee of the Executive Faculty (School of Medicine)
EF: Executive Faculty (School of Medicine
FAPC: Faculty Appointments and Promotions Committee (School of Medicine)
FCA: Both the Federal False Claims Act and the Tennessee False Claims Act
FDA: Food and Drug Administration
FERPA: Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act (aka the Buckley Amendment)
FFCA: Federal False Claims Act
FSA: Flexible Spending Account
FMLA: Family and Medical Leave Act
IT: Information Technology
NSF: National Science Foundation
ORI: Office of Research Integrity
SOM: Vanderbilt University School of Medicine
PHS: Public Health Service
PRTC: Promotion and Tenure Review Committee
TFCA: Tennessee False Claims Act
TMLA: Tennessee Maternity Leave Act
TRC: Technology Review Committee
USERRA: Uniformed Services Employment and Reemployment Rights Act
VUMC: Vanderbilt University Medical Center
Appendix B: Gender Pronouns
Gender pronouns are a way to refer to individuals without using names. Using the correct gender pronoun is an important part of recognizing a faculty colleague. Historically, singular gender pronoun usage of she/her/hers and he/him/his conform to and reify a binary classification of man and woman. Other pronouns, however, do not fit into this binary, including, but are not limited to, they/them/theirs and ze/hir/hirs. (See https://perma.cc/9GXJ-K4FE.) So as not to misrecognize any faculty member by reifying the she-he gender binary, the faculty manual deploys they/she/he and their/her/his pronouns, or, where readability recommends it, the universal singular “they.”