Faculty Resources
Course & Program Planning | Teaching | Appointments | Career Development | HR/Finance/Admin | FAQs
For information and resources related to research, please visit the Research section of our website. You may also visit the General Faculty FAQ page for information about academics and operations, and the COVID Faculty FAQ page for information related to teaching during the 2020-21 academic year.
COURSE & PROGRAM PLANNING
Undergraduate
- A&S College Core (for students entering Fall 2025 and later)
- Academic Travel Checklist (for taking students off campus within the U.S.)
- Changes to Undergraduate Curriculum
- Course Cancellation Guidelines
- Course Description Guidelines
- Course Renumbering Lookup Tool
- Cross-Listing Courses
- Maymester
- Procedure for New and Revised Undergraduate Academic Programs
- Risk During Off-Campus Academic Experiences
- Study Abroad Program Proposals
- Travel-Embedded Courses
- Undergraduate Course Catalog
AXLE (for students entering before Fall 2025)
- AXLE Requirements
- Changing the AXLE Category of a Course
- Syllabus and Teaching Requirements for AXLE Writing Courses
Graduate
- Graduate Certificate Approval Process
- Graduate Course Catalog
- Procedure for New and Revised Graduate Academic Programs
TEACHING
- Academic Calendar
- Brightspace
- Center for Second Language Studies
- Center for Teaching
- Classroom Recording Policy
- Classroom Scheduling
- Pedagogical Training for Graduate Students
- YES (Your Enrollment Services)
- YES User Guides
APPOINTMENTS
Faculty and Teaching
- 2024-25 Guidelines and Call for Promotions and Reappointments
- Guidance for Reviewing COVID-19 Impact Statements
- Research Faculty Appointment and Reappointment Request
- Rules and Procedures for Appointments, Renewals, Promotions & Tenure
- Secondary Appointment Request
- Promotion and Tenure-Track Flow Chart
- 2024 Maymester and Summer Session Instructional Staff Appointment Request
- Additional Instructional Staff and Reappointments Request
- MLAS Instructional Staff Appointment Request
Other
- Endowed Chair Policy
- Intern and Observer Information
- Intern and Observer Application
- Large Course Assistant Request
- Postdoctoral Scholar Appointments and Reappointments (managed by the Vanderbilt Office of Postdoctoral Affairs)
- Summer Research Consortium Students
- Visiting Scholar Request
General
Tenured/Tenure-Track
- Communications Resources
- Computer Policy
- Conference Hosting Support
- Facilities Resources
- Faculty Manual (Vanderbilt University)
- Faculty Registry (Vanderbilt University)
- Furniture Guidelines Policy
- Internal Grant & Funding Opportunities
- Office Space Guidelines
- Title IX Resources
- Travel and Expense Reimbursement Policy
- University Events
- University HR Forms Locator
- Vanderbilt Animals on Campus Policy
- Vanderbilt Faculty Gateway (list of university faculty resources)
- Vanderbilt Human Resources
- VUIT Technology Support
FAQs
COVID Faculty FAQs (information related to teaching in the 2020-21 academic year)