ACD 203–01: Faculty Governance—Responsibilities

To describe faculty responsibilities in governance

Office of the Executive Vice President and Provost of the University

Personnel Policies and Procedures for Faculty

Faculty

Faculty have a duty to share the responsibilities and obligations of governance and administration of the university as provided for by the Board of Regents in the Conditions of Faculty Service and other policy statements. These responsibilities include making recommendations regarding:

1. approval of course content and manner of instruction
2. establishment of requirements for matriculation and degrees

   In particular, the faculty recommends the requirements for the degrees offered, advises when the requirements have been met, and recommends that the president and the board grant the degrees thus achieved.

3. appointment and promotion of faculty

   Recommending faculty status and related matters is a responsibility of faculty in each academic unit: these recommendations include appointments, reappointments, decisions not to reappoint, promotions, granting of tenure, and dismissal. The responsibility of the faculty in such matters is based on the fact that its judgment is central to general educational policy. Furthermore, scholars in a particular field or activity have the chief competence for judging the work of their colleagues; in such competence it is implicit that responsibility exists to make both adverse and favorable recommendations.

4. selection of chairs of departments and certain academic administrators

   Recommendations in these matters should originate with the appropriate faculty through established procedures and be reviewed by the president with the concurrence of the board.

5. discipline of members of the faculty and the formulation of rules and procedures for the discipline of students
6. establishment of norms for teaching responsibilities and for evaluation of both faculty and student achievement
7. policies and procedures governing salary increases

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8. the forms of faculty governance at the department, college, and university levels.