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5.9. Policy On Textbooks Purchased Through University Bookstore
The following regulations apply to the ordering of books through the University bookstore:
1) Allow time for delivery of required textbooks and to make substitutions when the
textbook ordered is not available, the lists of books to be ordered shall be submitted to the
Dean’s office along with the class schedule for the semester in which the books are to be
used.
2) Books are not to be ordered by individuals not associated with the bookstore. Regardless
of the circumstances, books ordered by unauthorized individuals will be returned to the
publishers and the individual placing the order will be charged for the cost of returning
the books.
3) Desk copies for instructors will not be provided by the bookstore nor provided for in
departmental budgets.
4) Unless advised otherwise by the dean or department chair, the bookstore will return all
unsold books to the publisher thirty days after the close of registration. If a textbook is to
be used the following semester, the bookstore should be advised prior to the expiration
date of the 30-day period.
5) Individual faculty members are prohibited from selling books and other publications or
reproduced materials.
5.10 Report Submitted to the Coordinating Board on Coursework.
1) Each institutional governing board (TSU) is required to submit to the Coordinating Board
its comprehensive rules, regulations and standards for interpretation of full and part-time
instructional workload requirements, and for the range of acceptable assignments within
its definition of faculty workload. These institutional rules must be included in the
operating budget of the institution.
2) The institution must indicate the means by which an academic unit assures that persons
paid from faculty salaries work an appropriate percentage of time on instructional
activities.
5.11 Rental of Academic Regalia
Faculty participants in the commencement convocations must wear the traditional academic
costume. Teachers who wish to rent their costume will be provided with the proper forms for
contracting a rental agreement well in advance of the commencement convocation itself. The
University serves as an agent in the matter of rental of academic regalia, though the individual
faculty member may make his own arrangement for academic costume. He must indicate this,
however, at the time a general inquiry relating to the availability of academic costumes is
circulated among faculty. Persons renting academic costumes through the offices of the
University are expected to return this regalia immediately following the completion of its use,
and to pay the rental fee.
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