To Vanderbilt University students:
Vanderbilt University yesterday received a subpoena (“Subpoena”) from the National Labor Relations Board (“NLRB”) that directs the university to provide the full name, work location, job shift, and job classification of all graduate students as part of its response to a petition for union representation by Vanderbilt Graduate Workers United – International Union, UAW (“VGWU-UAW”) in NLRB Case No. RC-10-351808, which was filed on October 2, 2024. Vanderbilt believes this is a lawfully issued subpoena that requires response by the date stated in the subpoena.
Under the federal Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act, personal identifying information about you in your educational records maintained by the university, including information requested by the NLRB Subpoena about your work location, job shift, and job classification, can be released without your consent only if Vanderbilt gives you notice of the subpoena so that you have an opportunity to object to the release of this information related to you. Vanderbilt intends to disclose this information as requested in the NLRB subpoena by 12:00 pm on October 18, 2024 and will include your requested information, specified above, unless it receives notice of your opposition to this disclosure by 5:00 pm on October 17, 2024.
Vanderbilt is unable to advise you whether to object to its intended disclosure in response to the NLRB’s subpoena with the above-described personal information from your educational records. Should you wish to exercise your right to object, however, please submit your objection in writing to Lisa Y. Henderson, Regional Director, and Jill C. Adkins, Field Examiner, National Labor Relations Board Region 10, 810 Broadway Ste 302, Nashville, TN 37203-3859, with copies to Samuel Morris, attorney for VGWU-UAW, and Michelle Tellock, Deputy General Counsel for Vanderbilt University, by 5:00 pm on October 17, 2024.
As noted, Vanderbilt will release the above-described information about you from your educational records by 12:00 pm on October 18, 2024 in response to the NLRB Subpoena unless it receives notice of your objection by 5:00 pm on October 17, 2024.
Thank you for your attention to and consideration of this important matter.
C. Cybele Raver
Provost and Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs
C. André Christie-Mizell
Vice Provost for Graduate Education and Dean of the Graduate School
