The faculty handbook of the Component shall specify the procedure for approval at the Component level. The following describes the procedure for obtaining approval for accepting pay from students for extra-class instruction or coaching for instructional employees below the rank of lecturer: Submit to Department Chair, in writing, a request to charge students for extra-class instruction, or coaching, within the parameters set forth in the above-cited Chapter V, Subsection 4.
In the request, include:. PACE provides professional development that targets both student and faculty success. All faculty, staff and student research projects with human participants and animal subjects must be reviewed and approved for compliance with ethical principles before the research begins. No University money shall be used for influencing the outcome of any election or the passage or defeat of any legislative measure. Given that SHSU makes available to its distance and correspondence education students a number of free identity-verification options for proctoring services, faculty members may not require, as the sole option, a proctoring or identity verification service that requires a student charge.
Individuals are accountable for their signatures, whether manual or electronic. Faculty should establish a clear policy for students to follow regarding portable and electronic devices and ensure it is on the course syllabus. All administrative offices shall be open a. Violators of this State law and University policy will be subject to University penalties and criminal charges. All financial records, ledgers, and accounts shall be maintained in conformity with the rules and regulations of the State comptroller, State auditor, and other entities that have responsibility for setting financial management and reporting standards for State colleges and universities such as the Governmental Accounting Standards Board GASB and National Association of College and University Business Officers NACUBO.
Sam Houston State University recognizes the historical value of Austin Hall and the need to preserve this building as a Texas landmark.
To that end, the use of Austin Hall is limited, and arrangements and reservations must be made through the Office of the President. The Sam Houston State University Building Liaison Policy provides information on the selection, training and duties of building liaisons. The Department Academic Distinction Program is an individualized learning experience available to academically outstanding students at Sam Houston State University.
An Academic Distinction Program project provides qualified students with a comprehensive introduction to meaningful research under the guidance of a designated faculty advisor. Sam Houston State University policy prohibits the unlawful manufacture, distribution, dispensation, possession, or use of a controlled substance in the workplace.
To ensure the safety of students, faculty and staff, it may become necessary to cancel classes due to inclement weather or other emergencies. Use of the Gibbs Ranch conference ranch house and grounds are limited to University organizations, service groups sponsored directly by the University, current or retired faculty or staff, and Sam Houston State Alumni Association members, Century Club status or higher, with the approval of the Office of the President.
Honors education at Sam Houston State University is designed to be a supplement to and an enhancement of University academic experiences for undergraduates. Bowers Honors College website. Sam Houston State University uses the KatSafe system to alert the campus should there be an emergency. Depending on user preference, this notification is sent either by text message, phone call, or e-mail.
Contact information and preferences can be updated online at "Katsafe Communications Instructions". Emergency preparedness guidelines for situations such as active shooters, fire, hurricanes, tornado, and first aid are found on the Emergency Management website. The purpose of this policy is to help ensure the maximum accessibility and use of library materials, resources and services to students, faculty, and staff of Sam Houston State University.
This will enable our students and faculty to interact with prominent individuals in the appropriate topic area. Sam Houston State University recognizes the historical value of the Peabody Library and the need to preserve this building as a Texas landmark.
To that end, the use of the Peabody Library is limited, and arrangements and reservations must be made through the Office of the President. In order to promote a healthy, safe, and aesthetically pleasing work, educational, and living environment, Sam Houston State University SHSU will endorse a smoke free and tobacco free environment. The Student Advising and Mentoring SAM Center provides academic advising and mentoring to undergraduate students to help them succeed in their academic programs.
A cadre of professional advisors is available to help students with the planning and execution of their academic pursuits. Students have access to trained, expert advisors who can explain all aspects of the academic experience.
Advisors become students' guides through their tenure at the University. The SAM Center offers a wide variety of mentoring programs for all students.
The SAM Center designs programs to help individual students and works directly with faculty and administrators to help students with individual classes. The University expects students to engage in all academic pursuits in a manner that is above reproach. Students are expected to maintain complete honesty and integrity in the academic experience both in and out of the classroom. Students are provided with a procedure to address any grievance they may have of an academic nature.
This includes disputes over course grades, unauthorized class absences or tardiness, suspension for academic deficiency, and an instructor's alleged unprofessional conduct related to academic matters. The policy also includes disputes involving graduate comprehensive and oral exams, theses and dissertations. Academic Policy Statement , "Academic Probation and Suspension " , located in the Curriculum and Instruction section of the Academic Policy Manual, details the academic probation, suspension and termination regulations for undergraduate and graduate students at Sam Houston State University.
Textbooks, notebooks, manuals, or other materials that have been written or prepared by a SHSU faculty member must be approved before they may be placed on the syllabus. Requests to use faculty-authored materials should indicate the proposed pricing and profits.
Once approved by the department chair, dean, and Provost, such authorization is effective through that fiscal year, ending on August To access student rosters, faculty login to My Sam, click on the Faculty tab at the top of the page and then click on the link to the summary class list roster listed under the Faculty Self Service links.
Student Records are under the custody and care of the President of the University and their designee, the Registrar. Smartphones and similar devices laptop computers, tablets, wearables, and others have become increasingly a part of everyday life. In the academic classroom, however, these devices can become a serious distraction and during tests they can become a serious problem. To address these and other concerns, faculty are authorized and encouraged to institute and enforce a classroom policy on the use of such devices in the course syllabus for each class section.
In the event an unannounced visitor attends a class, the instructor should request identification in the form of a current and official Sam Houston State University Bearkat OneCard identification card.
If the visitor is not a registered Sam Houston State University student, the faculty member should act at their own discretion or refer the visitor to the department chair. This policy is not intended to discourage the occasional visiting of classes by responsible persons.
Obviously, however, the visiting of a particular class should be occasional and not regular, and it should in no way constitute interference with registered members of the class or the instruction thereof.
Sam Houston State University is committed to creating and maintaining educational communities in which each individual is respected, appreciated, and valued. SHSU maintains an environment that promotes prompt reporting of all types of sexual misconduct complaints. The University, in accordance with the Texas State University System Sexual Misconduct Policies and Procedures , will take prompt and appropriate action to eliminate sexual misconduct when such is committed, prevent its recurrence, and remedy its effects.
It is the policy of Sam Houston State University that no otherwise qualified individuals shall, solely by reason of their disability, be excluded from the participation in, be denied the benefits of, or be subjected to discrimination under any academic program or activity.
For information regarding resources and services available to students, please contact the Office of Services for Students with Disabilities. Academic Policy Statement , "Consortial and Academic Contractual Agreement Review" provides the complete policy and procedure to ensure a periodic review and evaluation of consortial and academic contractual agreements at Sam Houston State University. Sam Houston State University provides each faculty member with a statement in writing of the terms of employment, including special conditions, responsibilities, and any special prerequisites.
The document will cover such items as rank, salary, tenure provisions, whether the position is full-time or part-time, and the inclusive dates of service. In most cases, the contractual period of employment is the academic year, which means that one-half of the contractual salary will be paid each semester.
Written faculty contract letters are used each academic year: one for tenured faculty, one for probationary tenure- track faculty, and one for interim faculty. A personnel file for each faculty member is maintained in the Office of the Provost. This file contains the faculty member's application for employment, academic transcripts, photograph, letters of recommendation, employment contracts, and records of scholarly achievement, both hard copies and digital.
It is the responsibility of each faculty member to report as expeditiously as possible to the Office of the Provost, through channels, changes in status, i. The Human Resources Department also maintains a personnel file containing specific information a faculty member is required to furnish upon reporting for duty. This file contains information concerning options for insurance and retirement, mandatory State and federal documents and acknowledgements, I-9 INS Employment Eligibility Verification and an initial payroll action form.
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The Handbook began as a printed reference resource without images, but the expansion to six volumes included the addition of photographs and other illustrations. The Handbook staff recognized the need to update the digital Handbook with appropriate media, such as images, videos, audio, and interactive maps.
The staff now includes media with every new entry and has added media to the most viewed entries. As a result, the Handbook now includes thousands of images, hundreds of audio samples, and dozens of video clips from the TSHA Texas Talks webinars.
The media captions identify the title, copyright owner, and location of the media, as well as link to the original source. The staff disabled the right-click feature within the Handbook website to limit reproduction of the images and encourage users to visit the participating digital repositories and archives for access and republication.
After more than 70 years the Handbook project continues to promote scholarship and encourage the study of Texas history. The TSHA and Handbook staff collaborate with historical associations within Texas and across the United States to promote the study of state and local history. The Handbook project provides opportunities for graduate students, lay historians, scholars, and professors to preserve history by researching and authoring concise entries for educational purposes and the betterment of society.
The Handbook entries are cited in thousands of books, articles, documentaries, and webpages such as Wikipedia , Legislative Reference Library of Texas, Find-a-Grave, and Ancestry. Professor Webb could not have possibly imagined the ways in which the Handbook has grown and changed over time, but he certainly would be pleased that the public demand for scholarship remains so strong. After returning to private practice in Nashville by late , he was elected major general of the state militia by his fellow officers.
He was likewise prominent in the Nash Masonic order by the early s. Houston's rapid rise in public office continued in , when, as a member of Jackson's political circle, he was elected to the United States House of Representatives from the Ninth Tennessee District. As a member of Congress, he worked mightily, though unsuccessfully, for the election of Andrew Jackson to the presidency in In he was returned to Congress for a second and final term.
He was thirty-four years of age, extremely ambitious, and in the thick of tumultuous Tennessee politics. Standing six feet two inches tall and handsome, he cut a dashing figure wherever he went. Houston subsequently announced his bid for reelection to the governorship.
After eleven weeks and amid much mystery, the marriage ended. Eliza returned to her parents' home. Extremely distraught, Houston abruptly resigned from his office on April 16 and fled west across the Mississippi River to Indian Territory. Both parties maintained a lifelong silence about the affair. Houston's exit brought the Tennessee phase of his career to an end. As a possible heir apparent to Andrew Jackson, he may well have given up an opportunity to run eventually for president of the United States.
He made his way to the lodge of Oolooteka in what is now Oklahoma to live once again in self-imposed exile among the Cherokees, this time for three years. Among the Indians he tried to reestablish his tranquility. He dressed Indian-style and, although he corresponded with Andrew Jackson, he secluded himself from contacts with White society. Initially, too, he drank so heavily that he reportedly earned the nickname "Big Drunk.
He was granted Cherokee citizenship and often acted as a tribal emissary. Houston impressed the Frenchman as an individual of great physical and moral energy, the universal American in perpetual motion; Houston undoubtedly served as an example for Tocqueville's composite description of the "nervous American," the man-on-the-make so pervasive in the United States during the Age of Jackson.
On the evening of April 13, , on the streets of Washington, Houston thrashed William Stanbery, United States representative from Ohio, with a hickory cane. The assault resulted from a perceived insult by Stanbery over an Indian rations contract. Houston was soon arrested and tried before the House of Representatives. Francis Scott Key served as his attorney. The month-long proceedings ended in an official reprimand and a fine, but the affair catapulted Houston back into the political arena.
Leaving Diana and his life among the Indians, Houston crossed the Red River into Mexican Texas on December 2, , and began another, perhaps the most important, phase of his career. His "true motives" for entering Texas have been the source of much speculation.
Whether he did so simply as a land speculator, as an agent provocateur for American expansion intent on wresting Texas from Mexico, or as someone scheming to establish an independent nation, Houston saw Texas as his "land of promise. He quickly became embroiled in the Anglo-Texans' politics of rebellion.
He served as a delegate from Nacogdoches at the Convention of in San Felipe, where he sided with the more radical faction under the leadership of William H. He also pursued a law practice in Nacogdoches and filed for a divorce from Eliza, which was finally granted in As prescribed by Mexican law, he was baptized into the Catholic Church , under the name Samuel Pablo.
In September he chaired a mass meeting in Nacogdoches to consider the possibility of convening a consultation. By October, Houston had expressed his belief that war between Texas and the central government was inevitable.
That month he became commander in chief of troops for the Department of Nacogdoches and called for volunteers to begin the "work of liberty. On November 12 the Consultation appointed Houston major general of the Texas army. During February , Houston and John Forbes , as commissioners for the provisional government , negotiated a treaty with the Cherokee Indians in East Texas, thus strategically establishing peace on that front.
In March, Houston served as a delegate from Refugio to the convention at Washington-on-the-Brazos, where, on his birthday, March 2, the assembly adopted the Texas Declaration of Independence. Two days later Houston received the appointment of major general of the army from the convention, with instructions to organize the republic's military forces.
After joining his army in Gonzales, Houston and his troops retreated eastward as the Mexican army under Gen. This campaign caused Houston much anguish because the Texan rebels suffered from a general lack of discipline. He likewise fretted when the citizenry fled in the so-called Runaway Scrape. Despite these problems, Houston and his men defeated Santa Anna's forces at the decisive battle of San Jacinto on the afternoon of April 21, During this engagement, his horse, Saracen, was shot beneath him, and Houston was wounded severely just above his ankle.
The capture of Santa Anna the next day made the victory complete. At San Jacinto, Sam Houston became forever enshrined as a member of the pantheon of Texas heroes and a symbol for the age.
Riding the wave of popularity as "Old Sam Jacinto," Houston became the first regularly elected president of the Republic of Texas , defeating Stephen F. During his two presidential terms he successfully guided the new ship of state through many trials and tribulations.
His first term lasted from October 22, , to December 10,
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