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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, 7/20/2023)
- UH Policies and Procedures Information System
Department Chairperson
- Selection of Department Chair (PDF, 10/3/2011)
Associate Chairperson and Division Heads
- Selection of Division Heads (PDF, 2022)
- 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
- Faculty Duties, Rights and Procedures (PDF, 10/18/2016)
- 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)
- Search Committees, Definition of Quorum, Graduate Faculty Selection (PDF, 10/24/1985)
Department Personnel Committee (DPC), Promotion and Tenure
- Departmental Criteria for Tenure and Promotion – Approved 02/2025 (PDF, 02/24/2025)
- OFDAS Dossier Library
Periodic (5-year (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)
- Search Committees, Definition of Quorum, Graduate Faculty Selection (PDF, 10/24/1985)
- Faculty Meeting Minutes (Google Drive, 9/25/2024)
MSB Space Committee
- MSB Space Committee Guidelines (PDF, 4/3/2017)
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)
- SOEST Bonus Policy (PDF, 8/25/2006)
Friends of Oceanography
- By-Laws (PDF, 6/28/2023)
Other Policies
- Faculty Guide to Mentoring Students (PDF, 8/02/2018)
- 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)
- Graduate Assistant Stipends for Oceanography (PDF, 7/12/2016)
- SOEST Standards for Graduate Assistantship Stipends (URL, 8/14/2013)
- SOEST Workload Policy
- Budget and Resources Committee (PDF, 4/10/1995)
- Search Committees, Definition of Quorum, Graduate Faculty Selection (PDF, 10/24/1985)
- MSB 103 Policy (PDF, 3/14/2014)
- SSA Workflow Process (PDF, 7/11/2022)