of the
BOARD OF REGENTS
of
THE
FOR THE GOVERNMENT OF
THE
Parts One and Two were completely reissued as of June 1, 2002
(Substantive amendments through September 28, 2004, and editorial amendments through December 2, 2004, have been made.)
PART ONE and PART TWO are combined.
Any Part, Chapter, Section, or Subsection may be accessed by links in the Table of Contents.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
1.1 Application
of Rules and Regulations
1.2 Repeal of Existing Rules in Conflict Herewith
1.3 Amendment of Rules and Regulations
3.2 Duties of the Chairman (last amended 5/8/03)
Sec. 4. Vice-Chairmen of the Board
Sec. 5. Officers in the Office of the Board of Regents
5.1 Counsel and Secretary to the Board
5.3 Duties and Responsibilities
5.4 Assistant Secretary to the Board
Sec. 6. Meetings of the Board and Standing Committees of the Board
(last amended 5/8/03)
6.1 Regular Meetings of the Board
6.2 Special Meetings of the Board
6.3 Regular Meetings of Standing Committees
6.4 Special Meetings of Standing Committees
Sec. 7. Committees
and Other Appointments
7.1 Standing Committees (last amended 5/8/03)
7.2 Board for Lease of University Lands (editorially
amended 9/04)
7.3 The University of Texas Investment Management
Company (UTIMCO) (last amended
9/28/04)
7.5 M. D.
Anderson Services Corporation (added
5/8/03)
8.1 Importance of Attendance at Board and Committee
Meetings
8.3 Order of Business (last amended 5/8/03)
8.5 Matters to be Referred to Committees
8.6 Communications by and to the Board (last amended
5/8/03)
8.7 Report to Press on Actions of Board
8.8 Political and Controversial Matters
Sec. 9. Delegation to Act on Behalf of the Board
9.1 Items Requiring Board Approval
9.3 Prior Approval and Reporting
9.4 Actions of the Board as Trustee
9.5 Delegation
of Authority Related to Charter School Operations
9.6 Delegation of Authority to the Executive Committee
10.1 Compliance with Ethics Policy
10.2 Policy Against Discrimination
Sec. 11. Guidelines for the Santa Rita Award (added
11/13/02)
Sec. 2. Board's Exercise of Authority
Sec. 3. Chancellor (last amended 11/13/02)
3.2 Primary Duties and Responsibilities
of the Chancellor (last amended 8/12/04)
3.4 Compliance (last amended 8/7/03)
Sec. 4. Executive
Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs
4.1 Appointment (last amended 11/13/02)
4.2 Duties and Responsibilities
Sec. 5. Executive
Vice Chancellor for Business Affairs (editorially
amended 9/04)
5.1 Appointment (last amended 11/13/02)
5.2 Duties and Responsibilities (last amended 8/7/03)
(editorially amended 11/03 and 9/04)
Sec. 6. Executive Vice Chancellor for Health Affairs
(editorial renumbering 9/04)
5.1 Appointment (last amended 11/13/02)
5.2 Duties and Responsibilities
Sec. 7. Vice Chancellor for Administration (added 11/13/02) (editorial renumbering 9/04)
7.2 Duties and Responsibilities
Sec. 8. Vice Chancellor for Community Relations (editorial
renumbering 12/02)
8.1 Appointment (last amended 11/13/02)
8.2 Duties and Responsibilities
Sec. 9. Vice Chancellor for External Relations (editorially
amended 11/03)
9.1 Appointment (last amended 11/13/02)
9.2 Duties and Responsibilities (editorially amended 9/04)
Sec. 10. Vice Chancellor for Educational System Alignment (added
2/13/03)
10.1 Appointment
and Termination
10.2 Duties
and Responsibilities
Sec. 11. Vice Chancellor for Federal Relations (editorial
renumbering 2/03)
11.1 Appointment (last amended 11/13/02)
11.2 Duties and Responsibilities
Sec. 12. Vice Chancellor and General Counsel
(editorial renumbering 2/03)
12.1 Appointment (last amended 11/13/02)
12.2 Duties and Responsibilities (last amended
8/12/04)
Sec. 13. Vice Chancellor for Governmental Relations
and Policy (last amended 2/13/03)
13.2 Duties and Responsibilities
Sec. 14. Vice Chancellor for Health Affairs (editorial
renumbering 2/03)
14.1 Appointment (last amended 11/13/02)
14.2 Duties and Responsibilities
Sec. 15. Vice
Chancellor for Research and Technology Transfer (added 2/13/03)
15.2 Duties
and Responsibilities
Sec. 16. Vice
Chancellor for Special Engineering Programs (editorial renumbering 2/03)
16.1 Appointment
(last amended 11/13/02)
16.2 Duties
and Responsibilities
Sec. 17. Officers of System Administration and Other Code 1000
Staff (editorial renumbering 2/03)
17.1 Executive Officers (editorially amended 11/03 and
9/04)
17.2 Other Code 1000 Staff and Officers of System
Administration
Sec. 18. Councils of the System (editorial
renumbering 2/03)
18.2 The Council of Academic Institutions
18.3 The Council of Health Institutions
18.4 The Business Management Council (editorially
amended 9/03 and 9/04)
Sec. 19. Presidents of Component Institutions (editorial
renumbering 2/03)
19.3 Term
and Removal from Office
19.4 Duties and Responsibilities
Sec. 20. Appointment of Other Officers and Staff
(editorial renumbering 2/03)
20.1 Delegation of Certain Institutional Appointments
20.3 Faculty and Student Consultation
Sec. 21. Honorary Titles (editorial renumbering 2/03)
Sec. 22. Honorary Degrees (editorial renumbering 2/03)
1.1 Board Authority and Delegation
1.2 Appointments Based on Merit
1.4 Exemplary
Qualifications Required
1.5 No
Religious Qualification
1.6 Appointment
of Faculty (last amended 5/13/2004)
Sec. 2. Discipline and Dismissal Policy
4.1 Prohibition
on Certain Gifts
4.2 Prohibition on Benefits in Exchange for Exercises of
Powers or Duties
4.3 Limits
on Employment and Certain Activities
4.4 Disclosure of Confidential Information
4.5 Prohibition
on Self-Interest
4.6 Limits
on Personal Investments
4.7 Independent Judgment Required
4.8 Sexual Harassment and Misconduct
Sec. 5. Appointment of Relatives (Nepotism Rule)
5.2 Additional
Limits on Employment
Sec. 6. Tenure, Promotion, and Termination of Employment
6.1 Authority
of Board to Remove Employees
6.2 Tenure
and Tenured Titles (editorial amendment 9/03)
6.3 Termination
of a Faculty Member
6.4 Required
Compliance with Laws (editorial 3/03)
6.5 Prohibition on Disruptive Activity
6.7 Notice for Nonrenewal of Nontenured Faculty
6.8 Notice for Faculty on Term Tenure
6.9 Tenure and Reappointment Only Effective by Notice
6.(10) Current
Mailing Address Required
6.(11) Abandonment of Academic Positions or Programs
6.(12) Procedures for Financial Exigency
Sec. 7. Rights and Responsibilities of Faculty
Members as Citizens and as Teachers
7.1 Freedom in Research and Publication
Sec. 8. The Greater Duties of a Member of the Teaching Staff
8.3 Duty
to Cooperate with the Board
Sec. 9. Acquaintance with, Conformity to, Availability and
Improvement of Regulations
9.1 Conformance to Rules and Regulations by Faculty
9.2 Duty to Recommend Desirable Changes
Sec. 10. Communications, Appeals, and Hearings
Sec. 11. Communications with the Legislature and Other State Agencies
or Officials
13.1 Consultative or Advisory Activities
13.2 Limits
on Outside Employment
13.3 Obligation to Furnish Expert Knowledge and Counsel
13.4 Use of Stationery Prohibited
13.5 No Use of Professional Opinions for Advertising
13.6 Advance Approval for Certain Activities
13.7 Approval of Outside Employment
13.8 Nonelective Offices or Positions
13.(10) Service
on Outside Boards
Sec. 14. Holidays (editorially amended 9/03, 5/04, and 9/04)
15.1 Faculty Vacations as Provided by State Law
15.2 Lump
Sum Payment for All Vacation Leave
15.3 Accumulated
Vacation Leave Payable to Employee’s Estate
Sec. 16. Leaves of Absence Without Pay
16.5 Availability
of Additional Leave
16.6 Exhaustion
of Accumulated Paid Leave
16.7 Application
of Family and Medical Leave
Sec. 17. Faculty Development Leaves
19.2 Continuation
of Usual Duties
19.3 Estate
Paid for Accumulated Sick Leave
Sec. 21. Leave for Military Duty
Sec. 22. Family and Medical Leave
Sec. 23. Absence from Usual and Regular Duties
23.1 Conditions for Approved Absence
23.2 Institutional Regulations
Sec. 24. Compensation for Correspondence and Extension Teaching
Sec. 25. Textbooks and Other Materials Prescribed for the Use of
Students
25.3 Faculty Authored Materials
Sec. 26. Sectarian Courses Prohibited
Sec. 27. Acceptance of Money from Students
27.1 Prohibition
on Collection of Fees or Sales to Students
27.2 No Pay for Extra Instruction by Certain Faculty
27.3 Acceptance of Pay for Instruction by Teaching
Assistants
Sec. 28. Power to Authorize Expenditures From System Funds
28.2 Unauthorized
Payment Claims
Sec. 29. Indebtedness to the System or the State
Sec. 30. Power to Bind the System in Fixing its Policies
Sec. 31. Institutional Control and Administration of Contracts
and Grants
Sec. 32. Institutional Employees as Students
Sec. 33. Retirement and Modified Service (last
amended 11/13/02)
33.2 Appointment of Retired Person
33.3 Finding of Best Interest Required
33.4 Terms of Appointment to Modified Service
Sec. 34. Faculty and Staff Organizations
34.1 Procedures for Registration
34.2 Suspension or Revocation of Registered Status
34.3 Membership Not Restricted
34.4 Application for Registration
34.5 Prohibition on Use of University Name and Seal
Sec. 36. Minimum Faculty Academic Workload Requirements for
General Academic Institutions
Sec. 37. U. T. System Employee Evaluation Policies
37.1 Annual Evaluation of All Employees
37.2 Evaluation of Probationary Employees
37.3 U. T. System Guidelines for Periodic Performance
Evaluation of Tenured Faculty
37.4 Evaluation of Administrators
Sec. 38. Employee Advisory Council (editorially
amended 9/03 and 9/04)
Sec. 39. Authorization to Travel
39.2 Required Permission for Absence
1.1 Institutions of the “First Class”
1.2 Advice from Institutional Faculty
Sec. 2. Institutional, College, School, and Departmental
Faculties and Legislative Bodies
2.2 Necessity of Approval by Regents
2.3 When Legislation is Effective
2.4 Approval of Degree Candidates
2.5 List of Degree Candidates in Minutes
2.6 Changes in Degree Requirements
Sec. 3. Faculty
Advisory Council
GRADUATE
EDUCATION IN THE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SYSTEM
Sec. 1. Authorization and Definition
3.1 Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences
3.3 U. T. M. D. Anderson Cancer Center
Sec. 5. Policies and Procedures
Sec. 6. Joint or Cooperative Degree Programs
STUDENT
SERVICES AND ACTIVITIES AND REGULATIONS ON FACILITIES USE
1.4 Chief Student Affairs Officer
1.5 Petition to the Board on Certain Policies
Sec. 3. Student Conduct and Discipline
4.3 Limitation on Representations
4.7 Conditions for Registration
4.8 Limit on Registration (last amended 12/13/02)
4.9 Application for Reregistration
Sec. 5. Participation in Student Government
Sec. 6. Use of University Facilities
6.4 Protection of Artificial Bodies of Water, and Other
Property
6.6 Solicitation (last amended 11/13/03) [editorially amended at (w) 9/04]
6.8 Student Center or Student Union
6.9 Joint Sponsorship of the Use of Property, Buildings,
or Facilities
6.(10) Special Use Facilities (last amended 11/13/03)
6.(11) Filming Motion Pictures or Television Productions
(last amended 9/8/03)
6.(12) Use of the U. T. TeleCampus Internet website
6.(14) Use of
Facilities for Weddings (added 5/8/03)
Sec. 7. Speech and Assembly (last amended
12/13/02)
Sec. 8. General Admission Policy
Sec. 9. Assessment, Collection, and Waiver of Tuition and Fees
(editorially renumbered 12/02)
9.2 Approval of Certain Fee Changes
9.3 Approval of Changes in Laboratory and Supplemental
Fees
9.4 Approval to Collect Payment of Tuition, Fees, and
Other Charges
Sec. 10. Off-Campus Student Housing (editorially renumbered
12/02)
Sec. 11. University Policy in Regard to Debts of Students (editorially
renumbered 12/02)
Sec. 12. Anonymous Publications (editorially renumbered
12/02)
Sec. 13. Negotiations Related to Disruptive Activities
Prohibited (editorially renumbered 12/02)
Sec. 1. Gifts to The University of Texas System (editorially
amended 11/03)
1.1 Authority to Accept Gifts and Development of Gift
Acceptance Procedures
1.2 Conformance to System Policies
1.3 Gifts Not Administered by Office of External Relations
1.4 Certain Gifts of Real Property (editorially amended
9/04)
1.5 Gifts Administered by Office of External Relations
1.6 Delegation of Certain Actions
1.7 Internal Revenue Service Forms for Gifts Accepted by
the Board or President
1.9 Internal Revenue Service Forms for Real Property Gifts
(editorially amended 9/03 and 9/04)
1.(12) Gifts to Establish Endowments
1.(13) Administration of Gift to Benefit Individual
1.(14) Conduct Related to Gifts (editorially amended 9/04)
Sec. 2. Fellowships, Scholarships, and Loan Funds
2.2 Selection of Scholarship and Fellowship Recipients,
Notice of Award, and Payment
Sec. 3. Endowed Academic Positions
3.1 Approval Prior to Commitment or Announcement
3.2 Categories and Minimum Funding Levels (editorially
amended 11/03)
Sec. 4. System Private-Fund Development
4.1 Responsibilities of the Board
4.2 Responsibilities of the Chancellor
Sec. 5. Development Board of a Component Institution
5.2 Responsibilities and Duties
5.4 General Policies of the Component Institution
Development Boards
5.6 Activities by Ex-Students’ Associations
5.7 Executive Office of a Component Institution
Development Board
Sec. 6. Advisory Councils of a Component Institution
6.1 Establishment and Organization
6.2 Duties and Responsibilities
6.3 Associated Internal Foundations
7.2 Policies on Initiation and Operation
8.3 List of Authorized Internal Corporations
Sec. 9. External Nonprofit Corporations
Sec. 10. Conflict of Interest, Performance of Services, and Use
of University Facilities
10.2 No Service as Agent for Certain Entities
10.3 Utilization of Equipment, Facilities, or Services
INSTITU. T.IONS
AND ENTITIES COMPOSING THE SYSTEM
Sec. 2. Official Seal, Colors, Logo, and Mascot
2.3 Themes, Logos, and Mascots
Sec. 3. Medical and Hospital Services
Sec. 4. Institutions and Entities Composing the System
Sec. 5. Charter School Operations
ACCOUNTING,
AUDITING, REPORTING, AND BUDGETARY CONTROL
1.3 Endowment and Similar Funds (editorially amended
11/03)
1.4 Charitable Remainder Trusts and Pooled Income Funds (editorially
amended 11/03)
2.2 Required Approval (editorially amended 9/03 and
9/04)
2.4 Account of Funds and Property
3.1 Duties and Responsibilities of Internal Auditors
5.1 Annual Approval (editorially amended 9/03 and 9/04)
5.2 Budget Policies and Instructions
5.3 Process of Review and Recommendation
5.4 Rules and Procedures for Budget Administration (editorially
amended 9/03 and 9/04)
5.5 Access to Copies of Budget
Sec. 6. Legislative Appropriation Requests
6.2 Approval (editorially amended 9/03 and 9/04)
Sec. 1. Receipts, Admission Tickets, and Charges
1.4 Electronic Funds Transfer for Certain Oil and Gas
Royalty Payments
1.5 Tickets and Ticket Reports
Sec. 2. Deposits with Institutional Business Office
2.3 Report of Cash Discrepancies
Sec. 3. Deposits with the State Treasurer
4.1 Deposit in Official Depository Banks or Investment (editorially
amended 9/03 and 9/04)
4.2 Requirement for Depository Banks (editorially
amended 9/03 and 9/04)
4.3 Certain Borrowing Prohibited
4.4 Interest on Deposits and Investments
4.5 Delegation of Approval of Certain Loans
Sec. 5. Vouchers for Expenditures
5.1 Use and Approval of Vouchers
5.2 Internal Accounting Controls
Sec. 8. Institutional Membership Dues
9.2 Preparation and Verification
9.5 Distribution Dates for Checks
Sec. 10. Travel Authorization, Reimbursement, and Institutional
Regulations