Department Policy Manual

Here you will find Mathematics Department policies and guidelines on a wide range of administrative issues.

• Administrative policies
• Committees
• Graduate students
• Hiring
• Instructional policies
• Online education
• Research funding
• Review process
• Notes

A more detailed list follows

• Administrative policies
  • Fund Types and Permitted Expenditures
  • Departmental Research Funds
  • Visa Issues
• Committees
  • Departmental Committee Page
• Graduate students
  • Conference support for final year graduate students
  • Colloquium Attendance by Graduate Students
  • Duration of financial support for graduate students
  • Enrollment in Coursework after Comprehensive Exam
  • Summer Teaching Policy
  • TA Attendance Policy
  • Teaching Associate Policy
  • Teaching buy-outs (graduate) from research funds
  • Guidelines for Advisor – Graduate Student Interactions
• Hiring
  • Courtesy Appointments
  • Tenure-line faculty search process
  • Types of Short-Term Employment Contracts
  • Visa Issues
• Instructional policies
  • Absence from University Park during the academic year
  • Course Coordination Guidelines (200-level)
  • Student evaluations of teaching
  • Teaching and Sabbatical Leave
  • Teaching by pre-tenure faculty
  • Undergraduate Grader Guidelines
  • Faculty Exchanges with Peking University
• Online education
  • Management and accounting structure for online education
  • Online Course Credits Policy
• Research funding
  • Distinguished Visiting Professorship
  • Shapiro Visitor Program
  • Small research grants
  • Teaching buy-outs (faculty) from research funds
  • Teaching buy-outs (graduate) from research funds
• Review process
  • Fixed-term faculty review/promotion process
  • Teaching by pre-tenure faculty
  • Workload Policy (tenure-line faculty)
• Notes
  • Notes on meetings and minutes