UT Dallas Faculty Handbook

UT Dallas Policy Memoranda:
Faculty

A number of policy documents have direct bearing on a faculty member's standing within the university community. Topics of particular concern to new faculty include working toward an advanced degree by faculty members, faculty conduct, student evaluation of teaching, teaching evaluation by academic administrators, faculty grievance procedures, standards and procedures for promotion and tenure, merit salary increases for faculty, and faculty workload.

The UT Dallas policy documents that most directly affect faculty members in their conduct and standing within the university include:

• Work toward an Advanced Degree by Faculty Members
• University Policy on Faculty Conduct
• Policy regarding Photocopying Copyrighted Materials
• Emeritus Titles; Perquisites and Privileges of Emeritus Title Holders
• Dual or Outside Employment
• Policy and Procedures for Student Evaluations of Teaching
• Procedures governing Periodic Performance Evaluation of Tenured Faculty
• Teaching Evaluation Policy
• Faculty Grievance Procedure
• Faculty Leaves of Absence without Pay
• Hiring and Evaluation Procedures for Nontenure-System Faculty
• General Standards and Procedures for Review of Nontenure-System Faculty
• General Standards and Procedures for Faculty Promotion, Reappointment, and Tenure
• General Standards and Procedures for the Initial Appointments to Ranks of Instructor, Assistant Professor, Associate Professor, and Full Professor
• Merit Salary Increases for Faculty
• Policy and Procedures regarding Payment of Salary Supplements to Employees and Non-Employees
• Academic Senate
• Textbooks and Other Materials Prescribed for the Use of Students
• Minimum Faculty Academic Workload Requirements
• Part-time Workload Assignments.