FACULTY GOVERNANCE BYLAWS AND ORGANIZATION

Responsibility for ensuring that the university's educational purpose and objectives are achieved rests ultimately with its teaching staff. How well this responsibility is carried out depends, to a significant extent, on the way in which the teaching staff is organized to fulfil its appointed tasks. Therefore, it is important that the members of the university community be knowledgeable about this organization.

For the purposes of governance, and unless otherwise specified, members of the faculty shall include (a) the President of the University, the Provost and Vice President for Academic Affairs, and the Deans; and (b) members of the faculty with the academic rank of Professor, Associate Professor, Assistant Professor, or Instructor, who hold academic-year contracts calling for at least 40 percent of a full workload; and (c) inclusive of library faculty who have academic rank, and whose positions call for at least 40 percent of a full workload as professional librarians during the academic year.