Faculty Governance

Seven members (at least five tenured) elected for three-year overlapping terms from the faculty at large, with the provision that at least two shall be from the College of Arts and Sciences and at least two from the professional schools. The term of any untenured faculty member will end at the close of the academic year preceding the one in which his/her own tenure shall come under consideration.

Advisory Membership: Provost, two students selected by the Associated Students of PLU.

General Purpose: To consider and recommend policies relative to recruitment, rank, salary, promotion, and tenure of the faculty and to act in an advisory capacity to the administration relative to application of these policies to individual members of the faculty.

1. To review all recommendations for non-retention, sabbatical leaves, promotion, and tenure of the individual members of the faculty, and to make specific recommendations to the president when appropriate.
2. To recommend to the faculty, from time to time, ideas or techniques which make it possible to obtain objective information or data whereby the effectiveness of teaching may more adequately be determined, thereby enabling the committee to fulfill its advisory function as fully as possible.
3. To recommend to the faculty, from time to time, matters related to tenure or promotion which the faculty may decide to recommend to the president for presentation to the Board of Regents.
4. To advise the administration of the university regarding budgetary matters as they affect both faculty retention at the university and the integrity of the rank and tenure process and system.