The Montana University System Policy and Procedures Manual is a compilation of Board actions which are of general and continuing applicability and which establish standards of conduct or describe system organization or procedures. Items approved by the Board which are not of a type to warrant inclusion in the policy manual are nevertheless valid for the purpose for which they were enacted and for the period of time necessary to accomplish the purpose of the enactment. Unit means either Montana State University or the University of Montana as a whole, encompassing each of the respective universities constituent campuses and affiliated entities.
Campus means one of the campuses of a unit.
A campus may be headed by either a president, a chancellor, or a dean. Authority is delegated to the Commissioner of Higher Education or his designee to edit existing policy which does not result in any substantive revision of the edited policy. Such editing includes changing the numbering and placement of policies, as well as changes in capitalization, punctuation and syntax. The Commissioner or his designee may also add and delete annotations and explanatory material. When the words he or she or his or her are used in this Manual they are intended to refer to either gender unless the context indicates an intent to be gender specific.