Policies and Guidelines

Queens College policies and guidelines on selected topics

• Course procedures: office hours, course syllabi, missed classes, final exams
  • Guidelines regarding final examinations
  • Examination exemption request form
• Policy on the hiring of ABD (all but dissertation) faculty candidates
• Policy on workload averaging over multiple academic years
• Policy on reassigned time for untenured professorial appointments
• Queens College statement on examinations and religious observances
• Queens College policy on course withdrawals, absences, and incomplete grades
• Grant applications - signatures required
• Instructions on travel vouchers

City University of New York policies and guidelines on selected topics

• CUNY Policy Documents Site
• CUNY policy on International Agreements: Procedure and Model Documents

  Student Issues:

• Policy on retention of academic records
• Academic Integrity
  • CUNY Policy on Academic Integrity
  • CUNY Legal Affairs: Memorandum - 1995 June; letter - 2003 March 4; follow-up - 2003 March 27
• CUNY Uniform Grade Symbols: Glossary and Guidelines
• CUNY Testing Policy for students with disabilities
• CUNY Testing Policies and Procedures
• State Education Department rules on awarding credit for same courses in different degree programs.
• Religious Accommodation of Students - Memo from General Council.
  
• CUNY student complaint procedure here.
• Board of Trustees resolution on articulation and transfer
• Student Privacy: Guide to FERPA, the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act.

   Faculty and Staff Issues:


• CUNY policy on sexual harassment
• CUNY policy on Intra-University Mobility Guidelines
• CUNY policy on time off for religious observances
• Copyright Guidelines prepared by the Council of Chief Librarians' Copyright Task Force
  • Fair Use permissions chart
• Policy on faculty appointment periods, leaves, and Scholar Incentive Awards
• Faculty promotion and tenure guidelines
  • Max and Kahn memorandum
  • Board resolution of 1967
  • CUNY Bylaws Article IX
• CUNY guidelines and policy on the approval process for establishing new centers
• CUNY policy on Summer Assignments for Graduate Assistants 
• CUNY policy on P and B personnel procedures
• CUNY memorandum and policy on multiple positions
• CUNY policy on substitute appointments and subsequent clarification
• CUNY guidelines and policy on the approval process for establishing new centers
• Other CUNY policies
• "Old" PSC/CUNY contract (expired in 2000) and information on newer one (on PSC/CUNY site)
• CUNY - by laws of the Board of Trustees

Last modified 2008 July 14