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Texas Statutes (Last Updated: January 4, 2014) |
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EDUCATION CODE |
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Title 3. HIGHER EDUCATION |
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Subtitle A. HIGHER EDUCATION IN GENERAL |
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Chapter 57. GUARANTEED STUDENT LOANS |
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Subchapter B. ADMINISTRATION |
Sec. 57.19. PRESIDENT; PERSONNEL
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(a) The board shall appoint a president to serve as chief executive officer in administering the corporation and carrying out the policies of the board. The president serves at the will of the board.
(b) The board may appoint employees and may fix their compensation and prescribe their duties.
(c) The board may delegate any of its powers to the president and corporation employees.
(d) The president or the president's designee shall develop an intra-agency career ladder program. The program shall require intra-agency postings of all nonentry level positions concurrently with any public posting.
(e) The president or the president's designee shall develop a system of annual performance evaluations. All merit pay for corporation employees must be based on the system established under this subsection.
(f) The president or the president's designee shall prepare and maintain a written policy statement to assure implementation of a program of equal employment opportunity under which all personnel transactions are made without regard to race, color, disability, sex, religion, age, or national origin. The policy statement must include:
(1) personnel policies, including policies relating to recruitment, evaluation, selection, appointment, training, and promotion of personnel;
(2) a comprehensive analysis of the corporation's work force that meets federal and state guidelines;
(3) procedures by which a determination can be made of significant underuse in the corporation's work force of all persons for whom federal or state guidelines encourage a more equitable balance; and
(4) reasonable methods to appropriately address those areas of significant underuse.
(g) A policy statement prepared under Subsection (f) of this section must cover an annual period, be updated at least annually, and be filed with the governor's office.
(h) The governor's office shall deliver a biennial report to the legislature based on the information received under Subsection (g) of this section. The report may be made separately or as part of other biennial reports made to the legislature.
(i) The board shall develop and implement policies that clearly separate the policymaking responsibilities of the board and the management responsibilities of the president and the staff of the corporation.