Faculty Governance

Membership: Six members elected from the faculty at large for three-year overlapping terms.

Advisory Members: Provost, vice president for financial operations, director of personnel, and the faculty representatives to the Board of Regents.

General Purpose: To study problems, recommend policy, and facilitate appropriate action in matters dealing with faculty welfare, faculty fall conference, regency professorship. To act in an intermediary capacity in matters concerning the welfare of the faculty as a whole.

1. To recommend policy for the utilization of resources available to the faculty.
2. To recommend policy concerning faculty scholarships and grants.
3. To recommend policy concerning faculty leaves.
4. To recommend policy concerning fringe benefits, retirement, and salaries.
5. To seek to stimulate creative faculty activities.
6. To express faculty sentiment on appropriate occasions.
7. To plan the faculty fall conference.
8. To designate three members of this committee to constitute the faculty's representatives to the Regency Professorship Committee.
9. To advise the administration of the university in order to express faculty concerns and interests regarding the allocation of funds in the budget.

Membership for 2009-2010: