The chief administrative officer of The University of Texas Health Science Center at
Houston (UTHSC-H) is the president. The duties and responsibilities of the president are set
forth in the Rules and Regulations of the Board of Regents of The University of
Texas System.
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The president reports to and is responsible to the executive vice chancellor for health affairs, The University of Texas System, and serves without fixed term, subject to the pleasure of the executive vice chancellor for health affairs and approval by the Chancellor and the Board of Regents.
The president, with the appropriate participation of the staff, has the following responsibilities:
- Develops and implements plans and policies for the program, organization, and operation of the UTHSC-H, and ensures that the institution remains in compliance with any accreditation requirements including the accreditation of hospitals, clinics, and patient-care facilities. Supports the deans in developing and administering the schools.
- Develops a staff in the Office of the president designed to meet the goals and objectives of the UTHSC-H, including aiding individual deans in meeting their schools' objectives.
- Interprets the system policy to the staff, and interprets the program and
needs of the UTHSC-H to the office of the executive vice chancellor for health
affairs and to the public.
- Develops and administers policies relating to students and the proper management of services to patients.
- Recommends appropriate operating budgets and supervises expenditures under approved budgets.
- Nominates all members of the faculty and staff, maintains efficient personnel programs, and recommends faculty and staff members for promotion, retention, or dismissal for cause.
- Ensures efficient management of business affairs and physical property; recommends additions and alterations to the physical plant.
Serves as an ex-officio member of each school, faculty, staff, and student committee of the UTHSC-H.
- Establishes procedures for the appointment of faculty, staff, and student committees of the UTHSC-H.
- Directs the preparation of the rules and regulations governing the UTHSC-H and the submission of them to the executive vice chancellor for health affairs. When the executive vice chancellor approves the rules and regulations, they constitute The Handbook of Operating Procedures of the UTHSC-H.
- Assumes initiative in developing long-range plans for programs and physical facilities of the UTHSC-H.
- Assumes active leadership in developing private fund support for the UTHSC-H in accordance with policies and procedures established in the Regents' Rules and Regulations.
- Assumes responsibility, by delegation from the Board of Regents to the executive vice chancellor for health affairs to the president, for the appointment and dismissal of all other administrative officers of the UTHSC-H including vice presidents, deans, department chairpersons, directors, and their equivalents. Prior approval of the executive vice chancellor for health affairs shall be necessary for each such permanent or acting appointment and each such dismissal from a permanent or acting appointment. In the execution of this responsibility, the president, as he or she deems appropriate, will seek faculty and student consultation in the selection of administrative officers but shall not be bound by nominations to administrative positions by campus selection committees.
a Rules and Regulations of the Board of Regents of The University of Texas System, Series 20201, Presidents.
Updated 3/98; 08/07
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