Faculty Governance

Membership: Eight members, selected from the faculty for three-year overlapping terms.

Advisory Membership: Provost, Associate Provost/Information & Technology Services, one member of the Center for Teaching, Registrar, PLU bookstore director, two students selected by Associated Students of PLU (one representing residential students and one representing off-campus students), and one member of the Faculty Affairs Committee.

General Purpose:

1. One member to serve as chair of this committee and member of Faculty Executive Committee.
2. One member to serve as a representative to Capital Improvement Committee
3. One member to serve as a representative to Equipment Committee.

1. To promote communication among faculty, students, staff, and administrators on matters related to library and technology.
2. To study library collection development and allocation of budgeted funds and to make policies and changes as needed for new, developing, or altered academic programs of the university.
3. To oversee and monitor Information & Technology Services operations, plans, professional recruitment, and service priorities.
4. To advocate resource allocations according to important trends in curriculum and information and technology services.
5. To make recommendations in the allocation of capital improvement and equipment funds through membership in and communication related to the Capital Improvement Committee and Equipment Committee.
6. To review and advise Information & Technology Services on its policies, quarterly activity reports to the campus community, and strategic initiatives.
7. To establish criteria for quality learning spaces, including (but not limited to) the design, location, and provisioning of these spaces.
8. To report to the faculty annually concerning issues and activities within its jurisdiction.