SPECIAL RULES OF ORDER
- When recommendations from the Council on Academic Affairs are
to be considered by the Faculty Senate, a summary sheet shall
be prepared, but complete information shall be available in the
office of the Vice-President for Academic Affairs.
- When recommendations from Committees of the Faculty-at-Large
are to be considered by the Faculty Senate, those recommendations
shall be written and submitted in full.
- Resource persons able to comment on matters introduced by the
Council on Academic Affairs or by Committees of the Faculty-at-Large
shall be invited to attend the Senate meetings at which those
matters are to be considered.
- As a matter of courtesy, individuals who are not members of
the Faculty-Senate who attend a meeting of the Senate should register
with the Secretary at the beginning of the meeting so the visitor’s
attendance can be noted in the minutes.
- Items submitted for inclusion on the Senate agenda shall reach
the Chair or a member of the Executive Committee of the Senate
at least two weeks before a scheduled meeting of the Senate. A
substantive matter not so submitted, but presented on the floor
of the Senate, shall be placed on the agenda for action at the
next Senate meeting.
- In addition to the minutes, the Secretary of the Senate shall
maintain a file of Senate agendas along with all materials presented
to and acted upon by the Senate for a period of one academic year
at the end of which the file shall be sent to the University Archives
for permanent storage. The materials shall be available for faculty
inspection during the year they are kept on file by the Secretary
and after they are placed in the Archives.
- Senators who expect to be absent from a meeting of the Senate
shall notify the Secretary of the Senate. The Secretary shall
list in the minutes of each meeting the names of Senators absent
from the meeting with an asterisk beside the names of those Senators
who notified the Secretary of their absence beforehand.
- Nominations of members for Standing Committees of the Senate
shall be made from the floor.
- The administrative member of the Senate elected to the Budget
Committee shall not serve successive terms on that committee.
- When any committee of the Faculty Senate adopts formal procedural
rules governing its conduct, the committee chair shall immediately
notify the Rules Committee in writing, in order that the rule(s)
may be examined for consistency with the Senate Rules and/or for
being the possible basis for a generalized rule governing all
Senate Committees.
- When the Senate deems it necessary to establish an ad hoc
committee, the Chair shall appoint members to serve on the committee
and shall designate one of the appointees to serve as the committee
chair.
- The annual reports of all standing and ad hoc committees
shall be published in the minutes of the Senate meeting at which
they are submitted.
- The Chair of the Senate is an ex officio delegate to COSFL.
Another delegate and two alternates shall be elected annually
from among the elected members of the incoming Senate during its
organizational meeting in May. Either alternate may serve at any
COSFL meeting in the absence of a regular delegate.
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