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All Vanderbilt faculty and staff who hold a faculty appointment are eligible. Over the past ten years, some 550 faculty members of all ranks, representing the five undergraduate schools and colleges as well as the professional schools, have become VUceptors. Over 200 faculty members have been VUceptors three or more times. Staff members who do not hold faculty appointments but do hold terminal degrees will be evaluated on a case-by-case basis for eligibility.

Successful faculty VUceptors usually commit at least 35-40 hours of their time over the course of the program. This includes regular meetings with your student VUceptor partner, weekly Vanderbilt Visions sessions (50-minutes each week), VUceptor Training, and CommonVU Orientation meetings. Additionally, faculty VUceptors are asked to hold small group or individual meetings with their first-year students. Note: Faculty who have been away from the Visions program for five or more years will need to fulfill all 鈥渘ew鈥� VUceptor training responsibilities. For 2026, time commitments tentatively include:

Spring 2026

• Vanderbilt Visions Spring Training: Joint attendance with student VUceptor partner on ONE of the following evenings: March 24, 25, or 26 (4 鈥� 8:30 pm, dinner provided)
• NEW Faculty VUceptors Only*: Participation in 2-hour QPR Dorekeeper Training on ONE of the following afternoons: April 6 or April 9, 4:30 鈥� 6:30 pm
• Connect with your student partner once or twice informally to get to know one another and complete scheduling documents (1-2 hours)

*Faculty who have been away from the Visions program for five or more years will need to fulfill all 鈥渘ew鈥� VUceptor training responsibilities.

August 2026, before classes begin (all dates are tentative)

• Complete several online training and informational modules (required for all new faculty VUceptors and once every three years for returning faculty VUceptors)
• Joint VUceptor Training: Thursday before Move-In Day (August 20), 8:30 am 鈥� 5:30 pm
• CommonVU Orientation Week: Sunday after Move-In Day through Tuesday prior to start of classes (August 22-25), up to 9 hours (specific time commitments will be released over the summer)

Fall 2026

• Weekly planning meeting with your student partner (at least 30 minutes per week, in-person required)
• Weekly Visions group meeting followed by short debrief with your partner (1 hour per week)
• Attendance at the annual Lawson Lecture on a Sunday afternoon in September (date TBA)
• Small group or individual meetings with your first-year students; please try to meet with all your assigned students outside of the regular Visions meetings at least once (approximately 1 hour per week)
• Completion of a VUceptor Evaluation form at the conclusion of the program

For their efforts, faculty VUceptors receive $2,500 in the form of a one-time salary supplement.

1. Attendance. We expect that faculty VUceptors will attend all required sessions, lectures, and meetings of their Visions groups. If you must miss a session for any reason, please inform your student partner, providing as much advance notice as possible. Habitual or unexpected faculty absence can create an undue burden on the student partner.
2. Presence. We expect that faculty VUceptors will be fully present with their partners and group members. We are demonstrating for our students what full attention looks like, by putting away cell phones, for example, as well as setting an example and an expectation for their behavior.
3. Engagement. We expect faculty VUceptors to be engaged with the material and/or the discussion. Engagement requires preparation, but not necessarily expertise. As a VUceptor, your engagement may be far more valuable to your students than your expertise, as there will be ideas and information that you and your group are learning together.
4. Respect. We expect that faculty VUceptors demonstrate respect for other members of their groups and the VUcept and Visions community as a whole. This respect for others includes, but is not limited to inviting and listening to different points of view and beliefs. We will also respect and observe community norms and university policies regarding student privacy and mandatory reporting.
5. Accountability. We expect that faculty VUceptors hold themselves, their student partners, and the students in their Visions groups accountable for all of the above norms.
6. Leadership. Even though you and your student VUceptor are a team, faculty still set the tone for what is expected, what is reasonable, and where the boundaries lie.

With questions about becoming a faculty VUceptor, contact Director Natalee Erb.