According to the University of Texas at San Antonio (UTSA) Handbook of Operating Procedures (HOP), the General Faculty of UTSA was composed of all personnel holding an academic title as Professor, Associate Professor, Assistant Professor, Instructor, Lecturer, Visiting Professor, Visiting Associate Professor, Visiting Assistant Professor, Adjunct academic titles, Emeritus academic titles, Teaching Associate, and Specialist.
Voting members of the General Faculty included the following: 1. All Professors, Associate Professors, and Assistant Professors. 2. All Visiting Professors, Visiting Associate Professors and Visiting Assistant Professors who have had two semesters of service at The University of Texas at San Antonio. 3. All Instructors and Lecturers who have had four or more semesters of service at either rank at The University of Texas at San Antonio. 4. Such officials as are designated in the Regents' Rules and Regulations as being ex officio members of all institutional faculties of The University of Texas System. 5. Such other officials as the Board of Regents, upon recommendation of the President and the Chancellor of the University of Texas System, may designate. A faculty member has voting status only on the basis of half-time employment or more at the University.
The General Faculty established its own rules of procedure. As of the publication of the Handbook of Operating Procedures in 1991, the General Faculty was required to meet at least twice a year upon the call of the President. Prior to 1991, the General Faculty may have met less often.
The President or a delegate of the President presides at all meetings of the General Faculty.
The General Faculty became the Faculty Senate in 1993.
The collection comprises audiocassette recordings of meetings of the General Faculty from 1974 through 1993.
This collection is housed at UTSA's HemisFair Park Campus, though
Original audiovisual recordings are closed to patron use. Please contact University of Texas at San Antonio Libraries Special Collections for information about duplication of recordings to produce access copies.
Please contact University of Texas at San Antonio Libraries Special Collections for further information about copyright issues and permission to publish items from this collection.
[Identification of item], UTSA General Faculty Audiocassettes, UA 03.01, University of Texas at San Antonio Libraries Special Collections.
Transferred to the University Archives in 1998 (Acc. 1998-028u).
Processed by Angela McClendon, University Archivist, November 2008.
The General Faculty became the Faculty Senate in 1993. For the records of the Faculty Senate, see UA 03.02. University of Texas at San Antonio: Faculty Senate Records.
Arranged chronologically.