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PART II
FACULTY SENATE
ART1CLE I
SCOPE
The Faculty Senate shall serve as the executive body of the Faculty Assembly. It derives its
power from the Faculty Assembly and is responsible to the Assembly. It shall have power to
discuss and to adopt resolutions upon matters relating to University life. It shall make
preliminary formulations of educational policies or plan programs and make recommendations to
the Assembly. Its recommendations and/or decisions and actions are subject to review, approval,
or rejection by the Faculty Assembly.
ARTICLE II
MEMBERSHIP
The membership of the Faculty Senate shall consist of the elected officers of the Assembly, the
Parliamentarian, the Deans (as associate, non-voting members), the Faculty Assembly/Senate
Counsel, and twenty-one (21) elected representatives chosen such that there shall be not less than
one (1) representative from each of the University’s schools and colleges and from the
University Library. Representatives shall be full time faculty and staff. Further, in compliance
with the rule that there must be at least one (1) representative from each unit, election of the
remaining representatives shall be carried out by the University’s Schools and Colleges in a
manner proportionate to the number of students enrolled in each school or college. The
apportionment shall be based on the University 20th day full-time equivalent enrollment figures
for the preceding year’s fall term. Each Senate member shall serve a term of two (2) years.
ARTICLE III
ORGANIZATION
The Faculty Chairperson shall be the presiding officer of the Faculty Senate. The Faculty
Chairperson and the Vice Chairperson shall each maintain a file of all the proceedings of the
Faculty Senate. It shall be the responsibility of the Faculty Chairperson to transmit all of the
Senate’s decisions, actions and/or recommendations to the Faculty Assembly for its review,
approval, disapproval, information, or action.
The Vice Chairperson shall serve as Chairperson pro-tem and shall preside in the absence of or at
the pleasure of, the Chairperson. In the absence of the Chairperson and Vice Chairperson, the
succession for presiding officer of the Senate shall go from Vice Chairperson to the Secretary to
the Treasurer to the Parliamentarian to the Assistant Secretary, and then to any member of the
Senate so elected by members of the Senate.
The Secretary and Assistant Secretary of the Assembly shall keep records of the proceedings of
the Senate’s meetings via audio or videotaped recordings and shall transcribe, process, and
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