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Rules and Policies of the Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry Table of Contents I. APPENDIX: Rules of the Graduate Program 2 A. Preceptor Selection 2 B. Teaching Assistantships 3 C. Graduate Admissions 3 D. Oral Examinations 3 II. APPENDIX: Procedures and Priorities for Appointment of Teaching Associates 4 A. Procedures 4 B. Departmental GRA (dGRA) Awards 4 C. Limits on Assignment of GTAs to Individual Faculty 4 D. Priorities for additional TA allocation 5 E. Non-Students and Other Casuals 5 III. APPENDIX: Rules for Searching for a Department Chair 6 A. Internal Search 6 IV. APPENDIX: Rules regarding the Newman, Dow, Fox, and Kimberly Professorships and new professorships to be named. 7 V. APPENDIX: Safety Policies 8 A. Safety Enforcement 8 1. Introduction 8 2. Inspections 9 3. The Enforcement Mechanism 9 4. Table of Incentives for Compliance with Fire, Safety and Chemical Hygiene Plan Requirements. 9 5. Disposal Policy for Materials of Uncertain Composition (“Chemical Unknowns”) 11 6. Procedure 11 7. Instructions for Completing the Unknown Profile Form 11 VI. APPENDIX: Rules for Course Textbook Selection 13 VII. APPENDIX: Departmental Diversity Action Plan (last updated 2014-2015) 14 A. Introduction 14 1. Current Status of Department 14 B. Recognition of Bias 16 C. Faculty Distribution: Addressing Gender, Racial and Ethnic Inequities 16 D. Graduate Student Distribution: Gender, Racial and Ethnic Inequities 17 E. Undergraduate Diversity Initiatives 18 F. A welcoming and inclusive environment 19 G.Staff Diversity Initiatives 20 H.Support for Diversity Initiatives 21 I. Assessment and Implementation 21 J. References 21 VIII. APPENDIX: Research Support Services 23 A. Departmental Support of Instrumentation through the Research Support Services 23 B. Criteria for Departmental Instrumentation Acq