Pacific Lutheran University

The Faculty Assembly, the governing body of the faculty, meets at least once a month during the fall and spring. Through meetings of the Faculty Assembly, the faculty exercises its power to formulate courses of study, recommend requirements, enact rules and regulations, establish committees, and so on.

The faculty also works through committees, which the Faculty Assembly can create and dissolve, and which remain responsible to it. There are three kinds of committees: faculty-created standing committees, ad hoc committees, and university committees. Ad hoc committees may exist for up to three years. University committees consist of members of the faculty and members of other segments of the university.

All members of faculty-created standing committees are elected. In addition, the faculty elects three officers: the chair, the vice-chair, and the secretary of the faculty. The chair of the faculty presides over the Faculty Assembly, and over a Faculty Executive Committee, which assists the chair in preparing the agenda of the Faculty Assembly, oversees implementation of faculty legislation, and, together with the Governance Committee, helps coordinate faculty governance.