The following excerpt is from the Rules and Regulations
of the Board of Regents of The University System for the Governance
of The University of Texas System, Part One, Chapter IV (Faculty Organization):
Sec. 1. Educational Policy.
1.1 The Board of Regents will devote its best efforts
to making all of the institutions composing The University of Texas
System institutions of the "first class", as the Texas Constitution
directs in Article VII, Section 10. The Board of Regents will be guided
in general by the best practices of the best universities in the United
States state universities.
1.2 The Board of Regents will not, except in extraordinary
cases, act on important matters of academic policy until it has received,
or requested and obtained, advice thereupon from the institutional
faculty or faculties affected or their legislative bodies. When new
policies originating in any faculty give rise to serious differences
of opinion in that body, the advice and recommended legislation shall,
at the request of the minority, be accompanied by a record of the vote
and by a summary of the reasons for and against matters proposed.
Sec. 2. Institutional, College, School, and Departmental
Faculties and Legislative Bodies.
2.1 General Authority. Subject to the authority of the
Board of Regents and subject further to the authority that the Board
of Regents has vested in the various administrative officers and subdivisions
of The University of Texas System, the faculties of the component institutions
regularly offering instruction shall have a major role in the governance
of their respective institutions in the following areas:
2.11 General academic policies and welfare.
2.12
Student life and activities.
2.13 Requirements of
admission and graduation.
2.14 Honors and scholastic
performance generally.
2.15 Approval of candidates for degrees.
2.16 Faculty rules of procedure.
