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Handbook of Operating Procedures
Policy Owner: VPAA
Previous Publication Date: January 21, 2020
Publication Date: March 8, 2021

The Vice President for Academic Affairs is responsible for the policies listed below.

2.01 - The Faculty 2.02 - Faculty Appointments and Titles
2.03 - Emeritus Academic Titles
2.04 - Faculty Recruitment
2.05 - Faculty Appointments, Salaries, Payment Plans, Distribution of Checks
2.06 - Medical Absences and Teaching Continuity
2.07 - Part-Time Appointment for Tenured Faculty
2.08 - Appointments of Faculty to Centers within UTSA
2.09 - External Joint Appointments
2.10 - Faculty Reappointment, Promotion, and Tenure
2.11 - Annual Faculty Performance Appraisal for Merit Consideration
2.12 - Student Evaluations of Teaching
2.13 - Termination and Nonreappointment of a Tenured or Tenure-Track Faculty Member
2.14 - Faculty Workload and Minimum Faculty Teaching Requirement
2.15 - Textbooks and Other Materials by UTSA Faculty Prescribed for Student Use
2.16 - Acceptance of Money from Students
2.17 - Final Examinations
2.18 - Off-Campus Courses for Credit
2.19 - Retention of Student Records for Final Grades
2.21 - Academic Program Assessment 2.22 - Comprehensive Periodic Evaluation of Tenured Faculty
2.24 - Third-Year Review
2.25 - Faculty Development Leave Program
2.28 - Appointing Former Tenure-Track Faculty Members to Nontenure-Track Faculty Positions
2.29 - Teacher Certification Program Process
2.30 - Extended Education and the Awarding of Continuing Education Units (CEU's) at UTSA
2.32 - Administration of Courses Offered in Shortened Format
2.33 - Faculty Proficiency in English
2.34 - Faculty Grievance Procedures
2.35 - Substantive Change Procedures Required to Obtain Southern Association of Colleges and Schools Commission on Colleges Approval
2.36 - Procedures for Review of Nonreappointment of a Nontenured Tenure-Track Faculty Member
2.37 - Scholastic Dishonesty
2.38 - Academic Program Abandonment
2.39 - Academic Program Review
2.40 - Administrative Grade Change
2.41 - Endowed Chairs, Professorships and Faculty Fellowships
2.43 - Educational Programs and Courses Offered Through Collaborative Academic Arrangements
2.44 - Minors in Laboratories or Similar Facilities
2.46 - Faculty Rights and Responsibilities
2.50 - Nontenure-Track Faculty Recruitment, Evaluation, and Promotion Processes
2.51 - Semester Credit Hour
4.07 - Payment of Salary Supplements to University Employees and Non-Standard Payments to Persons who are not Employees of UTSA
5.09 - Class Attendance
5.13 - Posthumous Degrees
5.17 - Student Fitness for Professional Practice
8.12 - Information Resources Use and Security Policy
8.13 - The Organization and Appropriate Use of the Internet at UTSA
8.16 - Information Security Administrator Policy
8.17 - Information Security Incident Response
8.18 - Position of Special Trust
9.33 - Collections Management Policy for the Center for Archaeological Research
9.34 - Repatriation Policy for the Center for Archaeological Research
9.35 - Confidentiality of Social Security Numbers (Rules of Conduct)
9.45 - Assessment of Programs and Services


Dates Amended


03-08-2021
09-26-2013