The University Senate of Michigan Technological University

Proposal 16-10

"Current Policies and Procedures”

 (Voting Units: Full Senate)

 

Background/Rationale:

It is useful to have a place on the Senate website where certain policies and procedures we pass and approve (as Proposals) are centrally located and arranged.  Degree and certificate approved proposals are not included in this listing.  Such a site already exists on the Senate Webpage under Governing Documents entitled “Current Policies & Procedures” and it is necessary to approve this site and the numerical scheme used to bookmark these policies for referencing purposes. 

One example of the importance of this compilation is the following:  Consider Senate Procedures 501.1.1 pertaining to Administrative Evaluation Procedure.  This requires that anyone having the title President; Vice-President; Provost; Vice-Provost; Chief Financial Officer; or any other Chief Officer be evaluated in a periodic fashion.  Currently this was approved as Proposal 22-94.  Therefore in order for Senators to become aware of this, one would need to find Proposal 22-94 on the web, which is not difficult, but then for what purpose would one read this?  Storing these approved policies on this page rejuvenates this policy and allows for its timely implementation by the appropriate Senate committee.

Proposal:

It is therefore proposed that we approve the listing of approved policies and procedures on the Senate Webpage and that the listing be divided into the various divisions as shown below.  It is the responsibility of the Senate Officers and Senate Assistant to update the site and to continue assigning numbers in the manner indicated below and as required for future approved proposals and to ensure that the documents contain a URL linkage to the actual proposal from which they were derived.  Note that proposals will still have the usual number-year notation but this numerical scheme only depends on which section the approved policy or procedure is placed in.  Policies contain numbers separated by one dot and procedures contain an additional dot and number.  The pattern and division can be obtained by inspecting the listing below.

 

TOPIC

CURRENT POLICY

CURRENT PROCEDURE

100.0 - Academic

 

 

Academic Calendar

101.1

101.1.1

Academic Dishonesty

112.1

 

Academic Distinction Policy

105.1

Academic Freedom

106.1

Academic Integrity

109.1

109.1.1

Academic Policies and Scholastic Standards

107.1

 

Academic Program Planning

108.1

108.1.1

Academic Renewal

110.1

Class Attendance

102.1

 

Classroom Use

103.1

 

Cooperative Education Program (Undergraduate)

108.2

 

Developing Academic Policy at MTU

104.1

Summer Instructional Session

113.1

 

Teaching and Graduate Assistantships

111.1

 

200.0 - Conduct

 

Conflict of Interest

201.1

201.1.1

Consensual Relationships

202.1

 

Discrimination and Harassment

203.1

Misconduct - Research, Scholarly, Creative Endeavors

204.1

204.1.1

Office of Ombuds

210.1

 

Threatening, Harassing, and Violent Behavior

205.1

300.0 - Course

 

 

Add/Drop Policy

301.1

Audit Grades

302.1

 

Correcting Grades and Retention

310.1

 

Course Change

303.1

303.1.1

Course Grades

304.1

 

Grading System

311.1

 

Half Semester

305.1

Humanistic Social

306.1

Mid Term Grades

309.1

 

Prerequisite Policy

308.1

308.1.1

Repeat Policy

313.1

 

Syllabus Requirement

312.1

 

Transfer Credit Policy

307.1

 

400.0 - Degrees

 

Honorary Posthumous

401.1

Double Majors

402.1

Coursework only Masters

403.1

Distance Learning

404.1

Graduation Residency Requirement

408.1

 

Minor in Diversity Studies

405.1

 

Minors in Degree Programs

406.1

 

Additional Baccalaureate Degrees

409.1

 

Second Master's Degrees

410.1

 

Undergraduate Certificates

407.1

 

500.0 - Evaluations

 

 

Administrative

 

501.1.1

College Deans

502.1.1

Early-Term Class Surveys

505.1

 

President

503.1.1

Teaching Effectiveness

504.1.1

600.0 - Exams

 

 

Evening

601.1

Final

602.1

Winter Carnival Week

603.1

Written Proficiency

604.1

 

700.0 - Faculty

 

 

Appointments - Tenure-Track Faculty

701.1

 

Appointments - Non-Tenure-Track Faculty

701.2

 

Appointments - Non-Faculty Academic

701.3

 

Appointments - Research Faculty

701.4

 
Availability
  
Deletion of Citizenship/Residency Requirement
Early Tenure Clarification
Emeritus/Emerita Professor
Extension of Tenure Clock
Faculty Grievance Policy
Grievance - Office of Ombuds
  
Sabbatical Leave
Transfer of Tenure & Rank Between Academic Units
 

800.0 - Search Procedures

 

 

Administrators

 

801.1.1

Dean - College

802.1.1

Dean - Grad School

803.1.1

900.0 - University

 

Entrepreneurial Leave

906.1

 

Financial Crisis

901.1.1

Financial Stress

902.1.1

Loss of Untenured Faculty & Staff

 

903.1.1

Religious Observance

905.1

 

Web Page

904.1

 

 

 

Introduced to Senate: 17 March 2010
Adopted by Senate: 31 March 2010