Faculty Information

Policies and Procedures

All links below are to PDFs. Dates are when document was last updated.

Administration

• Duties of Academic Chairs (PDF, 4/09/2007)
• Restructuring of Administration of the Department (PDF, 4/10/2003)
• Faculty Duties, Rights and Procedures (PDF, 6/16/2010)

Department Chairperson

• Selection of Department Chair (PDF, 10/3/2011)

Associate Chairperson and Division Heads

• Selection of Division Heads (PDF, 6/27/2007)
• Changes to Graduate Degree Requirements (PDF, 5/1984)

Classroom Teaching Load

• Classroom teaching load (PDF, 4/14/2003)

Degree Requirements & Procedures

• Graduate Division's Policies, Principles and Practices (PDF, 2/2005)
• No foreign language requirement for Oceanography students (PDF, 10/25/2002)
• Use and Role of Proxy Members in Thesis/Dissertation Defenses (PDF, 10/23/1989)
• Procedures for Admitting and Advising Incoming Graduate Students (PDF, 4/14/1988)

Faculty Classification

• Procedures for appointing new faculty to the Graduate Faculty (PDF, 12/16/2002)
• Graduate Faculty Classification (PDF, 6/19/1991)
• Levels of Graduate Faculty Appointments (PDF, 3/15/1991)
• SOEST Faculty Reorganization Procedures
• Affiliate Graduate Faculty appointments (PDFs, 9/19/1984 and 10/02/1984)

Department Personnel Committee (DPC), Promotion and Tenure

• Departmental Criteria for Tenure and Promotion (PDF, 7/2004)

Period Evaluation (Post-tenure Review)

• Criteria for Faculty Performance (PDF, 3/29/2000)
• Periodic Evaluation of Oceanography Faculty (PDF, 11/1987)

Faculty Meetings

• Duration of faculty meetings (PDF, 9/17/1991)

MSB Space Committee

• MSB Space Committee Guidelines (PDF, 12/05/2001)

Policy Decisions

• Faculty voting on Policy Decisions (PDF, 2/22/1989 and 9/12/1990
  

Publications (Departmental)

• Thesis and dissertation lending policy (PDF, 2/02/2010)
• Departmental publications concerning graduate programs (PDF, 4/27/1992)
• Authorship for publication of graduate student research (PDF, 10/30/1990)

Teaching Evaluation and Curriculum Committee (TECC)

• Functions and responsibilities of the TECC (PDF, 5/15/1996)
• Functions and responsibilities of the TECC (PDF, 9/11/1991)

Faculty Salary Calculations

• Nine-month salary calculation for Partial Year of Service (PDF, 4/10/2008)

Other Policies

• Policies & Procedures for Telecom Requests (PDF, 3/08/2010)
• Procedure for New Course Proposals (PDF, 1/29/2010)
• Procedure for Adding Courses to the Schedule of Classes (PDF, 1/29/2010)
• Ocean Exam Files in Ocean Office (PDF, 2/25/2009)
• Overhead (RTRF) Return Policies (PDF, 9/17/2007)
• Stipends for Graduate Assistantships (PDF, 4/4/2007)
• Budget and Resources Committee (PDF, 4/10/1995)
• Search Committees, Definition of Quorum, Graduate Faculty Selection (PDF, 10/24/1985)

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