Faculty Handbook Section
VI| Faculty Handbook Section
VI |
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| A. Conditions of Employment |
B. Professional Growth, Development, and Awards |
C. Faculty Research Grants |
D. Adjuncts, Teaching Fellows, Teaching Assistants, and Student Assistants |
| E. University Libraries |
F. Centers and Libraries |
G. Services Support of Faculty |
I. Miscellaneous Services and Information |
H. Means of Communication and Publications
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Campus Mail
Mail service employees pick up and deliver interdepartmental mail to all designated offices each morning and pick up any outgoing official State of Texas letters mailed from these offices. Interdepartmental mail must be 8 1/2" x 11 " or in an interdepartmental envelope provided by Mail Service. The central dispatch point is the Mail Room in the University Union.
Faculty members with office computers have electronic mail available to them upon request. The university also provides Internet access to faculty, staff, and students for a very competitive fee, and that access includes the availability of remote electronic mail.
Only official State of Texas business mail may be metered. Departmental offices maintain a set of instructions for use of the official mails, and details are available from the Mail Service located adjacent to the U.S. Postal Substation in the University Union. The Mail Room is open weekdays. Faculty members, however, should generally be aware of several regulations and procedures pertaining to metered mail.
1. Letters are to be sent/brought to the Mail Room unsealed, and all mail must carry a UNT return address including the post office box number, department name and account number.
2. Letter mail is presorted in the Mail Room and must arrive by noon to be posted the same day. Letter mail delivered to the Mail Room in the afternoon will be presorted the following day for posting.
3. Preparation of bulk mailings is the responsibility of the sender, or Mail Service will prepare it for a nominal fee. Senders should contact the Mail Service for instructions prior to printing and preparation.
4. Any special instruction—"air mail," for example—must be marked on the envelope or package, and certified mail must include the appropriate receipt and return receipt forms. All packages are automatically insured for $100. If additional insurance is required, the sender should so specify on the package. Express Mail must be in an envelope or package no smaller than 5" x 7" and the Express label must be completed by the sender.
5. When return envelopes are included in mailings, please call Mail Service for mailing procedures.
6. The Mail Service, in order to comply with U.S. Postal Service regulations effective February 2, 1992, requests that no staples be used to fasten folded mail pieces or to hold contents in place within a window envelope. Paper clips or staples on the inside of an envelope should be positioned away from the upper right quarter of an envelope because of the damage they may cause to the postal meter.
7. Each department is responsible for receiving and distributing incoming U.S. mail from its post office box.
For more detailed information concerning mailing procedures, please refer to the UNT Policy Manual, Vol. II, #6.1 or call the Mail Room.
Faculty members may rent postal boxes. On Saturday all mail is placed in boxes while only special deliveries and newspapers are placed on Sunday.
The university operates an Electronic Centrex telephone system (Centranet) that allows four-digit dialing within the academic, administrative and residence hall buildings on campus.
All telephones have direct inward dialing from outside the university. There are other 565 and 369 prefix numbers in the Denton community; however, they are not part of the university system. Various levels of service are available in the Centranet system that uses a Least-Cost Routing System with special long-distance services such as Metro, TEX-AN and WATS lines.
All academic and administrative telephones are for official university business only.
One may call the Telecommunications Office to receive a copy of the user guide or to report trouble with telephone service, or to obtain information on charges, levels and types of service available, installation, etc.
The university general information number, when calling from off-campus, is (940) 565-2000. When on-campus one may dial "O" for the campus operator and "9" then "O" for the general information (Denton) operator. The university emergency number for requesting police, fire department or ambulance services is "911" from any on-campus 565 or 369 telephone.
A number of publications are distributed regularly to faculty and staff members.
InHouse, the newspaper published by the Office of Public Affairs and Information Services for faculty and staff, contains news, a calendar of major events and personal profiles. It appears monthly.
The North Texan magazine is published quarterly for alumni and friends as well as for members of the university community.
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The Office of Public Affairs and Information Services distributes news of interest concerning the institution, faculty, students, staff, administration and special programs to the news media and to specialized publications throughout the nation. University publications such as catalogs, departmental brochures, recruitment and retention publications, external publications and a campus newspaper are designed and edited by PAIS, located in the Administration Building.
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The University of North Texas Press was established in August 1987. The Press is dedicated to the publication of scholarly, academic and general interest books, with an emphasis on Texana, folklore, military history, and multicultural topics. The output from UNT Press is approximately 18 books a year. The UNT Press books are distributed and marketed nationally through a consortium with Texas A&M University Press. UNT Press publishes the following series: Publications of the Texas Folklore Society, War and the Southwest, Western Life, Vassar Miller Prize in Poetry, Al Filo: Mexican American Studies, Great American Cooking, Texas Writers, Texas Poets, Philosophy and Ecology, and Practical Guide Series.
KNTU-FM radio is operated by UNT students and supervised by the Department of Radio, Television and Film. It is located in Smith Hall. A variety of music is played and programs of news, sports and general interest are presented. Broadcast is at 88.1 MHz FM and at a power of 100,000 watts. Hours of operation are 6 a.m. until midnight Monday through Saturday and 6 a.m. until 1 a.m. Sunday.
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Channel 2 is Denton's public television station founded in cooperation with KERA Channel 13 as part of North Texas Public Broadcasting Inc. KDTN is the education channel of NTPB and serves the educational needs of the entire region including elementary, secondary and college-level students. UNT has an agreement with KDTN that allows airing of "specials" produced by the university, as well as an active internship program. KDTN works with the Center for Media Production to produce some programming in partnership.
Channel 22 is the local cable channel reserved for UNT.
The student newspaper is the North Texas Daily, which is published Tuesday through Friday during long semesters and on Thursday only in the summers. The Daily prints general university news and is available in all major university buildings.
Three copy centers offer the option of full-service or self-service for class projects or university-related materials. The centers are located in Kendall Hall, the University Union Building and in the General Academic Building.
In addition to automated copying, the centers offer photocopying and full color copying. Services in the different centers include collating, stapling, folding, hole punching, Velo binding, wire-o-binding, GBC binding, and the option of several grades of white and colored paper. Kendall Copy Center has a 600 x 600 laser printer for anyone needing this service and copyright clearance for materials requiring approval to copy. Telephone inquiries are welcome.
Coin operated and copy-card operated machines in the university libraries provide self-service copying. Academic departmental offices also provide various kinds of copy services for their faculty.