Academic Year 2024-2025

Preface

The Texas A&M University-Victoria (A&M-Victoria) Faculty Manual is designed to provide faculty members with basic information about the university, its academic community, and its policies and procedures. The manual is organized into five chapters, and each section has a specific focus.

Links to more detailed information on many of the topics are provided in the Faculty Manual. Where applicable, information contained in the Faculty Manual is linked to material in the Policy Manual, the Texas A&M System-Board of Regents' Policies and System Administrative Memoranda (SAM). This Faculty Manual is not intended to address all aspects of university structure and policies but should provide enough direction about where to go for answers to most questions.

This Texas A&M University-Victoria Faculty Manual and related policies do not constitute an employment contract with any employee. The University of Houston-Victoria reserves the right to change, amend or abandon any of the policies contained in the Faculty Manual at any time. Nothing contained in the Faculty Manual changes the employment at will status of any employee, or creates any additional rights, remedies at law, or expectations of continued employment.

This Faculty Manual replaces all previously published manuals. Texas A&M University-Victoria policies are subject to Texas A&M System policies. There are several other basic information sources all A&M-Victoria faculty members should be familiar with in addition to the Faculty Manual. Other sources of information include:

Academic Catalog

The Academic Catalog is the guide to all academic policies, including degree and program information, financial aid and billing information, state policies as they relate to student enrollment, as well as course and program descriptions. The Catalog is updated annually by the Office of the Registrar and Student Records.

Student Handbook

The Student Handbook is intended to convey information about university policy and procedures to all students. Updates and changes are made annually to the handbook through the Office of Student Services and Judicial Affairs.

Texas A&M System Board of Regents Policies

The Board of Regents is the governing body of the Texas A&M System, and it is composed of nine members (chair, vice chair, secretary, and six members). Every two years, the Governor of the State of Texas, subject to Senate confirmation, appoints three members to the Board of Regents. Each member serves a six-year term.

Board responsibilities include preserving institutional independence and defending each Texas A&M System component university’s right to manage its own affairs through its chosen administrators and employees; enhancing each university’s public image; interpreting the community to each of the universities and the universities to the community; nurturing each university so that each may achieve its full potential within its role and mission; and providing policy direction, insisting on clarity of focus and mission, to each of the universities. The Board of Regents’ policies are available online.

Administrative Policies

Rules and Procedures are available online. These policies are maintained by the Office of the Vice President for Administration and Finance.