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  "id": "2025-01-08-vanderbilt-university-friday-operations-flexibility",
  "slug": "vanderbilt-university-friday-operations-flexibility-2025-01-08",
  "institution": {
    "name": "Vanderbilt University",
    "shortName": "Vanderbilt",
    "state": "TN",
    "type": "private-r1",
    "alertSystemName": "AlertVU",
    "enrollment": 13710
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  "incident": {
    "date": "2025-01-08",
    "type": "weather",
    "cleryCategory": "advisory",
    "headline": "Staff may use leave or work remotely if Friday operations stay open",
    "headlinePublic": "Staff may use leave or work remotely if Friday operations stay open",
    "summary": "Vanderbilt University Emergency Management said it was monitoring possible winter weather for Friday and asked supervisors to be flexible about paid time off or remote work if the university stayed open."
  },
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      "type": "initial",
      "timestamp": "2025-01-08T20:00:00-06:00",
      "channel": "website",
      "verbatimText": "Update 8 p.m. Wednesday, Jan. 8\n\nUniversity leaders and Vanderbilt University Emergency Management are monitoring reports of possible winter weather impacts on Friday, Jan. 10. A decision about university operations for Friday will be communicated by 4:30 p.m. on Thursday, Jan. 9. If the university remains open, all supervisors are asked to be flexible for those staff who may wish to take paid time off (PTO) on Friday or can perform their duties remotely.",
      "isVerbatimConfirmed": true,
      "confidence": "high",
      "sourceUrl": "https://news.vanderbilt.edu/2025/01/09/university-monitoring-weather-for-friday-jan-10/",
      "sourceDescription": "MyVU update, 8 p.m. Wednesday, Jan. 8",
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        "The body header is the clock: 8 p.m. Wednesday, Jan. 8. No minutes were printed. Stored as 20:00 CST.",
        "A later update on the same page, headed Thursday, Jan. 9, was read twice and the texts differ, so it is not in this file.",
        "No other Vanderbilt case is dated 2025-01-07, 2025-01-08, or 2025-01-09."
      ],
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    }
  ],
  "context": "The notice is the earlier update on the MyVU page that also carries a Thursday update. Only this Wednesday text matched a second read.",
  "keyFindings": [
    "Emergency Management asked supervisors to allow paid time off or remote work if Friday operations stayed open."
  ],
  "sources": [
    {
      "title": "MyVU update, 8 p.m. Wednesday, Jan. 8",
      "url": "https://news.vanderbilt.edu/2025/01/09/university-monitoring-weather-for-friday-jan-10/",
      "type": "official-archive",
      "accessDate": "2026-10-04",
      "archiveUrl": null,
      "archiveNotes": "No SPN save this batch. Snapshot not requested while other reads were in flight. Two reads sha256 1c6c28c4e36647f0702476b3e670c013d85690cf4cd58dcb4ce4b72669010cc0."
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  "confidence": "high",
  "tags": [
    "2025",
    "weather",
    "private-r1"
  ],
  "dateAdded": "2026-10-04",
  "lastUpdated": "2026-10-04",
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}