Purpose:
Establishment of a simplified procedure for the cooperative use of
courses and facilities in graduate education to allow graduate students from
one of the institutions involved to benefit from the laboratory facilities
and/or graduate course offerings unique to a cooperating institution in the
sister system
Date Approved:
July
26, 1979
Background:
The
following resolution was developed with representatives from The Texas A&M
University System and the concept was approved by the offices of General
Counsel in both systems for transmission to the Texas Higher Education Coordinating
Board. Participation in the program
will be voluntary and operating details will be written by the graduate deans
and approved by the presidents of the institutions concerned.
WHEREAS, the institutions in The
University of Texas System and The Texas A&M University System are the
major public institutions in Texas engaged in research and graduate education;
and
WHEREAS, there is an ever-increasing
cost for providing the highest quality education for graduate students in
Texas; and,
WHEREAS, the cost of educating certain
special students may be reduced and the quality of education increased by joint
use of unique graduate educational facilities and courses rather than duplicate
the courses or facilities; and,
WHEREAS, on occasion there are
laboratory facilities and/or graduate level course offerings which are unique
to a single institution and graduate students from another institution who
would benefit by the opportunity to take these courses or do research in the
laboratory; and,
WHEREAS, the purpose of such
cooperation is to help the graduate student to take advantage of unique
educational opportunities with minimum of bureaucratic paperwork;
NOW THEREFORE, the members of the Board
of Regents of The University of Texas System and the Board of Regents of The
Texas A&M University System jointly adopt the following:
BE IT RESOLVED that every effort will
be made by the institution to maximize the cooperation between institutions in
the interest of quality graduate education with a minimum of administrative
paperwork involved; and,
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, that the
following operating guidelines should apply:
1. A graduate student from one institution
may study at a cooperating institution in a sister System when there exists a
unique educational opportunity related to the student's program and interest
(laboratory or course), but only with the consent of the instructor or director
of the laboratory and when all concerned recognize that it is in the best
interest of all parties. Such
arrangements are contingent on space being readily available in the laboratory
or course.
2. The graduate student will maintain
registration only at the home institution. Credit for any course or work taken at an institution in a sister System
will be through student registration in an appropriate course at the home institution
(such as graduate special problems). The graduate dean of the sister System institution will certify the
course grade to the graduate dean of the home institution by letter or on a
form adopted for this purpose.
3. Graduate students doing work at a sister System
institution will comply with all appropriate rules of the sister institution.
4. Graduate students will pay all applicable
fees at the home institution, but none at the cooperating sister System
institution. (It is anticipated that
the number of students participating in this program will be small and that the
paperwork associated with money exchanges will not justify such a practice.)
5. Students on a fellowship or receiving
financial assistance at the home institution may continue receiving such
assistance, if otherwise appropriate, while doing research in a laboratory or
taking courses at a sister System institution, but will not at the same time
receive financial support from the sister System institution. The cooperating sister System institution
assumes no financial responsibility for the student.
6. Other operating details which may be
needed will be worked out within these guidelines by the graduate deans of the
individual cooperating institutions with the approval of the presidents of the
institutions concerned.
Note: See related policy on Visiting Students Program
Last reviewed September 2000