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UNIVERSITY OF HOUSTON Budget for the Fiscal Year 2014-2015 Submitted to the Board of Regents University of Houston System Houston, Texas August 2014 Univ. of Houston This Page Left Blank Intentionally University of Houston Table of Contents Fiscal Year 2015 Page ACADEMIC WORKLOAD POLICY......................................... 1 EDUCATION AND GENERAL FUNDS...................................... 9 PRESIDENT................................................. 15 UNIVERSITY ADVANCEMENT.................................... 19 ACADEMIC AFFAIRS.......................................... 23 STUDENT AFFAIRS AND ENROLLMENT............................ 27 RESEARCH.................................................. 31 LIBRARY................................................... 35 ARCHITECTURE.............................................. 39 BAUER COLLEGE OF BUSINESS................................. 43 EDUCATION................................................. 47 ENGINEERING............................................... 51 HONORS.................................................... 55 HOTEL & RESTAURANT MANAGEMENT............................. 59 LAW CENTER................................................ 63 NATURAL SCIENCES & MATHEMATICS............................ 67 OPTOMETRY................................................. 71 PHARMACY.................................................. 75 LIBERAL ARTS & SOCIAL SCIENCES............................ 79 GRADUATE COLLEGE SOCIAL WORK.............................. 85 TECHNOLOGY................................................ 89 ADMINISTRATION AND FINANCE................................ 93 PLANT SUPPORT............................................. 97 CAMPUS SECURITY........................................... 101 BUILDING MAINTENANCE...................................... 105 GROUNDS MAINTENANCE....................................... 109 UTILITIES................................................. 113 SPECIAL ITEMS............................................. 117 STATE STAFF BENEFITS...................................... 121 INSTITUTIONAL............................................. 125 TPEG...................................................... 129 University of Houston Table of Contents Fiscal Year 2014 Page DESIGNATED TUITION.............................................. 133 PRESIDENT................................................. 139 UNIVERSITY ADVANCEMENT.................................... 143 ACADEMIC AFFAIRS.......................................... 147 STUDENT AFFAIRS AND ENROLLMENT............................ 155 RESEARCH.................................................. 159 LIBRARY................................................... 163 ARCHITECTURE.............................................. 167 BAUER COLLEGE OF BUSINESS................................. 171 EDUCATION................................................. 177 ENGINEERING............................................... 183 HONORS.................................................... 191 HOTEL & RESTAURANT MANAGEMENT............................. 195 LAW CENTER................................................ 199 NATURAL SCIENCES & MATHEMATICS............................ 205 OPTOMETRY................................................. 215 PHARMACY.................................................. 219 LIBERAL ARTS & SOCIAL SCIENCES............................ 225 GRADUATE COLLEGE SOCIAL WORK.............................. 237 TECHNOLOGY................................................ 241 ADMINISTRATION AND FINANCE................................ 247 INSTITUTIONAL............................................. 251 UTILITIES................................................. 255 DEBT SERVICE.............................................. 259 PLANT SUPPORT............................................. 263 CAMPUS SECURITY........................................... 267 BUILDING MAINTENANCE...................................... 271 CUSTODIAL SERVICES........................................ 275 GROUNDS MAINTENANCE....................................... 279 STATE STAFF BENEFITS...................................... 283 University of Houston Table of Contents Fiscal Year 2014 Page AUXILIARY ENTERPRISES.......................................... 287 INTERCOLLEGIATE ATHLETICS................................. 293 PARKING AND TRANSPORTATION................................ 297 ADMINISTRATIVE SERVICES................................... 301 RESIDENTIAL LIFE AND HOUSING.............................. 305 UNIVERSITY CENTER......................................... 309 HEALTH CENTER AND PHARMACY................................ 313 OTHER STUDENT SERVICES.................................... 317 HOTEL & RESTAURANT MANAGEMENT............................. 321 OTHER AUXILIARY UNITS..................................... 325 University of Houston Table of Contents Fiscal Year 2014 Page RESTRICTED..................................................... 329 PRESIDENT................................................. 335 UNIVERSITY ADVANCEMENT.................................... 339 ACADEMIC AFFAIRS.......................................... 343 STUDENT AFFAIRS AND ENROLLMENT ........................... 347 RESEARCH.................................................. 355 LIBRARY................................................... 359 ARCHITECTURE.............................................. 363 BAUER COLLEGE OF BUSINESS................................. 367 EDUCATION................................................. 375 ENGINEERING............................................... 381 HONORS.................................................... 391 HOTEL & RESTAURANT MANAGEMENT............................. 397 LAW CENTER................................................ 405 NATURAL SCIENCES & MATHEMATICS............................ 409 OPTOMETRY................................................. 417 PHARMACY.................................................. 421 LIBERAL ARTS & SOCIAL SCIENCES............................ 427 GRADUATE COLLEGE SOCIAL WORK.............................. 445 TECHNOLOGY................................................ 449 ADMINISTRATION AND FINANCE................................ 455 PLANT SUPPORT............................................. 459 INTERCOLLEGIATE ATHLETICS................................. 463 University of Houston ACADEMIC WORKLOAD POLICY Faculty Academic Instructional Workload (University of Houston) [Revised as of February 9, 1999.] In accordance with UHS Board of Regents; policy 21.05, the University of Houston has developed the following faculty academic workload rules and regulations. The general workload responsibilities of a faculty member at a complex institution such as the University of Houston can neither be defined simply nor summarized easily. Faculty members have fundamental obligations above and beyond organized teaching and research. They perform their normal classroom duties and carry out a multitude of essential functions including, but not limited to, academic advising and counseling, the supervision of undergraduate and graduate students, direction of individual study, special projects, theses and dissertations, and curriculum development. In addition, they accept many institutional and public service obligations. The variety of faculty responsibilities that must be undertaken for the university to function in an effective and efficient manner makes it impossible to equate faculty workload with the sum total of semester credit hours taught, or with any other single criterion. Indeed, it is inappropriate to adopt any measure of faculty workload that is fundamentally numerical in nature without consideration of qualitative issues. While recognizing these facts, however, the university must develop a minimum teaching load requirement and report its fulfillment to the state. This is necessary to comply with the Texas Education Code, to meet the expectations of the Legislature for direct instructional activities tied to compensation from the faculty salary appropriation line item, and to quantify for all university constituencies the basic commitment the faculty have to the students at the University of Houston. These institutional rules and regulations distinguish between minimum teaching load requirements and general workload requirements. While the university requires that every faculty member fulfill a certain minimum teaching load and assume a comparably high level of general workload, it does not insist that each one have the same teaching load. The university administration will provide chairs of individual academic units the flexibility to achieve maximum effectiveness in teaching effort as related to student enrollment and to adjust each individual's instructional assignment within the regulations and standards stated below. Each department chair and college dean must certify that the duties of each faculty member actually constitute an appropriate workload responsibility in accordance with the following rules and regulations, which have been approved by the University of Houston Board of Regents. The minimum faculty teaching load requirement described in this policy does not apply to graduate teaching assistants. The Provost, as the chief academic 2 officer of the university, is responsible for assuring that all teaching assistants are carefully supervised. General Workload Expectations Given the quality and variety of work necessary to support this university's fundamental obligation to the discovery, transmission, and application