This is the Merchant Approval Process Flow Chart, meant to aid in Policy FIO311.

This Guidance Document is intended to promote transparency and further compliance with University Policy GE003 State and Federal Government Relations Activities by providing helpful guidance, instruction and/or non-exhaustive lists or illustrative examples to help guide the reader. This Guidance Document has no force or effect on any University Policy or Related Procedure and readers should contact appropriate subject matter experts, including their supervisor, for further guidance. This Guidance Document was created pursuant to University Policy GE0001.

This flowchart is intended to help individuals understand the how to initiate and/or revise University policy.

This flow chart is intended to help illustrated personal versus University contact as it relates to policy.

This template is intended to assist policy writers in formatting and organizing the content of all university policies. Policy writers must use this template and follow The University of Tennessee System Policy and Procedure Glossary and Style Book.
University policies: (1) apply to all campuses and institutes and provide University employees guidance to ensure compliance with state and federal laws and regulations; (2) maintain adequate internal controls to safeguard the University’s assets; (3) provide consistent management of resources transactions across the University system; and (4) set the University’s expectations for conducting University business and communicates these expectations.

This questions-and-answers document is intended to provide guidance to employees to help employees comply with the state of Tennessee’s relevant firearms laws and UT policy. Employees who choose to carry a firearm do so at their own risk and are fully responsible for any consequences that arise from carrying a firearm. In the event of a conflict between state law and UT policy or this question-and-answer document, state law prevails.

The Statement of Need and Impact form is what individuals seeking to institute a policy.

This provides guidance for categorizing specific information types (for example: Confidential Information) at the University of Tennessee Institute of Agriculture (Institute).

This document describes the appropriate procedures for reporting a security incident as detailed in UTIA IT0122 – Information Security Incident Response Policy.

Change control activities are focused on establishing and maintaining the integrity of products and systems, through control of the processes for initializing, changing, and monitoring the configurations of those products and systems. This is important in establishing and maintaining secure information system configurations, baseline configurations, and supporting the management of security risks for the Institute’s IT assets, including, but not limited to, desktops, laptops, servers, and networking equipment.