Centers and Institutes provide a framework to advance UNT in the critical areas of service, outreach, interdisciplinary scholarship and externally funded research and development. This policy outlines processes for the establishment, annual reporting, review, and discontinuation of centers and institutes, ensuring alignment with UNT’s mission and strategic goals.
The purpose of this policy is to establish minimum enrollment requirements for Graduate Fellows and Research Assistants.
To support timely and successful completion of graduate degree programs where a thesis or dissertation is required, students must maintain continuous enrollment in appropriate thesis or dissertation courses.
UNT is committed to providing long-term stewardship and preservation of works of scholarship and to providing the broadest possible access to published works of scholarship produced by members of the UNT community in the course of academic activities.
Students are responsible for meeting the standards of academic performance established for each course in which they are enrolled as well as requirements for completion of their academic programs. Faculty members are responsible for establishing standards of academic performance and for evaluating student performance in an equitable manner. Faculty decisions in such matters are considered authoritative and can be overturned only when it has been determined that a grade was assigned in an inequitable, arbitrary, or erroneous manner.
The University of North Texas recognizes that student success is promoted by regular attendance and participation in class. It is the responsibility of the faculty member to notify students in writing of any special attendance requirements for the class. This policy applies to all modes of course delivery.
This policy prescribes how new programs (i.e., degree programs, and/or certificate programs) can be added, substantively changed or expanded and it identifies the entities engaged in the approval process.
Joint appointments provide opportunities for faculty members to have assigned responsibilities in two or more academic disciplines.
The University of North Texas (UNT) exists for the common good. The common good depends upon the free search for truth and its free expression. Academic freedom is essential to these purposes and applies to both teaching and research. Freedom in research is fundamental to the advancement of truth. Academic freedom in its teaching aspect is fundamental for the protection of the rights of the faculty member in teaching and of the student to freedom in learning.
UNT may confer posthumous baccalaureate and graduate degrees upon deceased students who have successfully completed a substantial portion of their academic program at the time of death.
