The procedures to be followed concerning faculty publications of books are as follows:

1. As a part of their duties, faculty members will prepare class syllabi, as needed, without additional salary, honorarium or royalty.
2. The district will pay an honorarium for appropriate books and other scholarly accomplishments including poetry, short stories, music and/or articles published, choreography performed and art shown at galleries.
3. A district-wide honorarium review committee composed of faculty will review books, laboratory manuals and other scholarly accomplishments submitted to The San Jacinto College District for a possible honorarium.
4. The district can publish any textbook it desires, and will do so only through a written contract with the author.
5. The district will pay a royalty to authors of books the college chooses to publish. The amount of the royalty is to be mutually agreed upon.
6. The district will pay no honorarium to any author to which it pays a royalty.
7. The college bookstore will make no private arrangements with individuals to distribute unauthorized textbooks or syllabi.

The following definitions are offered for the purpose of clarification:

1. The textbook is the primary source of information for a given course. Textbooks are selected by the faculty and approved by the campus vice-president of instruction.
2. Syllabus is an outline of subject matter to be taught according to a specified time schedule. The syllabus lists textbooks and other materials, weekly assignments, course objects and bibliographies, and it summarizes evaluation methods.
3. Honorarium is a financial remuneration awarded by the Board of Trustees to full-time employees for the authorship of a book or textbook published by a commercial publisher other than the college and for other scholarly accomplishments. The honorarium is awarded to the author or authors of a book or textbook that relates to instruction, education or the author or authors' professional field of study or research. Where books or textbooks are co-authored, the honorarium is divided equally among the authors and paid only to San Jacinto College employees. An honorarium of $500 is paid for books and $250 for laboratory manuals, workbooks and study guides. A honorarium $50 is paid for the publication of poetry, $100 for the publication of a short story, $100 for the articles published, $250 for plays published, $250 for choreography performed and up to $500 for art shown at art galleries during the employees tenure at the college.
4. Royalty is a percentage of sales earned by the author or authors of books or textbooks published by The San Jacinto College District. Royalties are awarded under terms of a written contractual agreement between the college district as publisher and an author or authors.

(Re: Policy IV-E-14; Board of Trustees Policy Manual)