1. Report in writing to the Faculty Senate, with reasons, acceptance, rejection and/or action taken on all recommendations made by the Faculty Senate, within 60 days following the Senate action.
2. Inform the Board of Trustees of faculty recommendations which are subject to direct approval by the Board of Trustees, and inform the Faculty of Board actions which directly influence the Faculty'' conduct of its business.
3. Implement the operational policies and regulations of the Faculty in harmony with the approved policies of the Board of Trustees.
4. Supervise the administrative officers in fulfillment of their responsibilities for faculty governance and faculty affairs.
5. Have the option to serve as an ex officio member of all faculty standing committees.

1. Lead and administer the academic program of the University.
2. Implement the academic policies adopted by the Faculty.
3. As Dean of the Faculty, serve or be represented in the Faculty Council.

1. Preside at meetings of the Faculty Council.
2. Prepare the agenda for faculty senate, subject to the approval of the Vice President of Academic Affairs. Faculty Council has authority to add, delete, or reorder items (see B-2 section 1F)
3. Insure that substantive business items or substantive issues for discussion appear on each Senate agenda.
4. Represent the Faculty on the President’s Staff and to other bodies.
5. Report to the Board of Trustees at each board meeting throughout the academic year.
6. Be responsible for convening standing committees of the Faculty for organizational purposes.
7. Serve as ombudsperson when a faculty member is accused of any action that could lead to discipline or dismissal. (An accused faculty member shall have the right to have the Chair of Faculty present at all meetings with administrators that pertain to the accusation. The chair’s role as ombudsperson shall cease in a given case if the accused faculty member files a formal grievance.)
8. Monitor activities of the standing committees, insuring that each committee has appropriate goals and plans for meeting these goals. This includes meeting with Faculty Council and the Vice President for Academic Affairs for the purpose of setting appropriate goals for each faculty committee for the academic year.
9. Insure that Council’s activities are reported regularly to the faculty.
10. Insure that all committee chairs provide regular (at least quarterly) reports to the faculty.
11. Proofread the minutes of each meeting of the Faculty Senate, and insure that the minutes are distributed to all members and associates.
12. Insure that committee actions are communicated to Senate, and that Senate decisions are communicated to committee chairs.
13. Insure that Senate actions are communicated in writing to the President and the Vice President for Academic Affairs.

1. Serve as a member of the Faculty Council
2. Serve on the Agenda committee.
3. Assume the responsibilities of the Chair in the Chair’s absence.
4. Be responsible for appropriate duties assigned by the Chair.
5. Develop a list of needs and priorities for the purpose of strategic planning (i.e., for the purpose of developing a plan of action for the coming year).
6. Do advance planning for the annual Faculty Retreat.
7. Assess and recommend changes to the Faculty Bylaws, if needed, to the Faculty Council annually.

1. Serve as a member of the Faculty Council.
2. Assume the responsibilities of the Chair in the absence of the Chair and Chair-elect.
3. Be responsible for appropriate duties assigned by the Chair.
4. Seek help from appropriate faculty as questions arise concerning the interpretation of the Faculty Handbook.

1. An associate may be nominated for voting membership in the Faculty Senate by the President of the University, the Faculty Council, or five members of the Faculty. All nominations shall be submitted to Faculty Council in time to be included on the agenda of the Faculty Senate in time to be included on the agenda of the Faculty Senate meeting at which action is to be taken.
   
   Nomination of associates for voting membership shall be made on the basis of:
   1. their involvement in the areas in which the Faculty has primary responsibility rather than those areas where the Faculty shares responsibility with other components of the University, as defined in Article I of the Constitution, and
   2. academic preparation comparable to that required for faculty rank.
2. Associates who have an established relationship with the University and who would qualify for membership according to the preceding paragraph may, upon application to the Faculty Council, with support of a majority of the entire faculty, be elected to a continuing membership in the Faculty.
3. Upon changes of an individual’s status and position within the University, the Faculty Council may recommend to the Faculty Senate a revocation of membership. Publication in the agenda of Faculty Senate shall follow the same schedule as for nomination; a simple majority vote of the Faculty Senate, a quorum being present, shall suffice for revocation.
4. A list of associates as voting members of the Faculty Senate will be maintained by the Office of Academic Affairs.

1. Chair-elect, Chair, and Immediate Past Chair. See Art. B-1, Section 2.
2. Chairs of UPEC, GPEC, FA, AAR and the Diversity Committee. Term of office shall be two years. The Chairs of UPEC and GPEC and Diversity shall be elected by the Faculty Senate via secret mail ballot (paper or electronic) in fall quarter of even numbered years. The Chairs of FA and AAR shall be elected by the Faculty Senate via secret mail ballot (paper or electronic) in fall quarter of odd numbered years. Those elected shall assume their duties upon completion of the spring quarter.
3. School and College Representatives. Term of office shall be two years. Election of CAS, School of Psychology, Family, and Community, and School of Health Sciences representatives shall occur in spring quarter of even numbered years. Election of representatives for the School of Education, the School of Theology, and the School of Business and Economics shall occur in spring quarter of odd numbered years. Each School or College shall nominate two faculty as representatives, one of whom shall be elected by the Faculty Senate via secret mail ballot (paper or electronic). Those elected shall assume their duties upon completion of the spring quarter.
4. No person shall be elected to this position who is expected to be on leave or sabbatical during the term of office. Any position which becomes vacant shall be filled by special election as soon as possible.
5. In no case may any member of Faculty Council (other than the representative from the Office of the Vice President for Academic Affairs) serve more than five consecutive years.

C. The Faculty Council shall

1. Serve as the Executive Committee and the Rules Committee of the Faculty Senate.
2. Nominate members of all faculty committees for election or faculty approval and appoint the Parliamentarian.
3. Nominate persons for offices of Chair-Elect, chair of UPEC, chair of GPEC, chair of FA, chair of AAR and chair of the Diversity Committee.
4. Supervise faculty elections.
5. Make interim committee appointments, not to exceed a term of one quarter, at the request of the affected committee (if a vacancy exceeds one quarter it shall be filled by regular nomination and election).
6. Create ad hoc committees as needed.
7. Represent the Faculty in the areas of shared responsibility, including all- University administration, long-range planning, and planning the budget.
8. Maintain liaison with the policy-recommending committees of the Faculty and assure that business items are brought to the attention of the Faculty Senate.
9. Review faculty and all-University structures and procedures for policy development; where issues of primary or shared responsibility of the Faculty are not assigned to committees, recommend faculty responses to the issues; as appropriate, recommend to the Faculty Senate changes in structure and procedures.
10. Serve as Steering Committee for the annual Faculty Retreat and for other all-faculty activities for which no standing or ad hoc committee has responsibility.
11. Annually, together with the Vice President for Academic Affairs and Deans, Faculty Council shall negotiate a set of goals for all faculty committees. Faculty Council shall monitor the progress of the committees toward the achievement of the negotiated goals. Updated 5-04 11
12. Recommend and review implementation of policies concerning campus life, including social activities, student conduct, Christian formation, and ministries across campus, including the chapel program.
13. Monitor additions, deletions, and editing of the Faculty Handbook, and the Constitution and Bylaws of the Faculty, to insure that approved actions of the preceding year are appropriately included.
14. Make minutes of its meetings available to the faculty (e.g. by posting them online).

1. Shall serve as the senior management and policy implementation body of
   the Faculty and as the primary coordinating agency for the work of
   academic administration.
2. Shall advise the Office of the Vice President for Academic Affairs in areas
   of academic leadership, development, and management.
3. Shall implement academic policies and procedures.
4. Shall implement policies in areas of academic services, faculty affairs, and
   faculty research.
5. Shall review the university-wide budget and make budget
   recommendations to the President’s Staff.
6. Shall coordinate faculty participation in policy implementation for finance
   and planning, student affairs, and university advancement.
7. Shall facilitate communication among schools, and between schools and
   other administration.
8. May recommend new or amended policies to the policy-recommending
   committees of the Faculty.

1. Faculty members of standing faculty committees, except school curriculum committees, shall be elected by the Faculty Senate via secret mail ballot (paper or electronic) for three-year overlapping terms. The term of office shall begin upon completion of the spring term. Ex officio members are designated by office. Wherein these designations name members for whom titles are changed administratively, the Faculty Council shall designate the persons for membership.
2. Professional staff, program administrators, or regular or associate members of the faculty may be made advisory members of faculty committees. They shall have the same rights and privileges as other members except the rights to make motions and to vote (ex officio member of committees have the same rights and privileges as other members, including the rights to make motions and to vote).
3. Members of an ad hoc committee may be elected or appointed as determined by the Faculty. If enabling legislation does not specify how members are to be selected, the members shall be chosen by the Faculty Council and reported to the Faculty Senate.
4. Restrictions on memberships: No elected faculty member shall serve simultaneously on more than two standing committees. No elected member of the Faculty Council shall serve on more than one standing committee. The Chair of the Faculty shall not serve on any standing committees. If an officer of the Faculty Council would exceed these restrictions because of membership on a curriculum committee, an exception may be granted by the Faculty Senate.
5. Student appointments: At the beginning of each academic year, the President of the Associated Students shall provide the Office of the Vice President for Academic Affairs and the Faculty Chair with the names of undergraduate student representatives to faculty standing committees in areas of faculty's primary responsibility and of faculty's shared responsibility. Graduate student representatives will be appointed by Faculty Council in collaboration with the Graduate Policies & Evaluation Committee.

1. If a committee is not one whose chair is elected by the faculty (as provided in B-2 section 3 B.2) then the committee members shall elect its officers at its first meeting. Normally these will include a chair and a secretary. Only elected faculty members are eligible for election to the chair of policyrecommending committees in areas of faculty’s primary responsibility. For purposes of this section, school deans who are elected to a committee are considered elected faculty members.
2. All meetings shall be open to any interested member of the Faculty except that meetings of the Faculty Status committee and ad hoc grievance adjudication panels shall be closed, and any committee, the Dean’s council, or the Faculty Council may, by majority vote of its members, declare a meeting closed.

Minutes of each open meeting of a standing committee shall be recorded and copies sent to the Office of the Vice President for Academic Affairs, the Chair of the Faculty, and each member and advisory member of the committee. Minutes shall also be placed in a public e-mail folder (or other system that makes them accessible to members of the faculty). Minutes of closed meetings of standing committees shall be recorded and distributed according to the decision of the committee. All committees and task forces shall provide periodic written reports of pending agenda and completed actions to the Faculty council for transmission to the Faculty Senate. In addition, each ad hoc committee shall send a final report to the President of the University, the Office of the Vice President for Academic Affairs, and the Chair of the Faculty on completion of its assigned task, and may be instructed to send its report to other persons or bodies as well.

A summary report of accomplishments and remaining issues will be sent by committee chairs to the Faculty Council at least one week before end of the quarter. The Faculty council Chair shall distribute these summary reports to the faculty.

Art. B-II, Section 6.     Committee structure

A. Policy-recommending Committees in Areas of Faculty’s Primary Responsibility
Committees in this category are responsible to the Faculty Senate through Faculty Council, except that school curriculum committees report through appropriate Policies and Evaluation Committees and are responsible to their school faculties and the Office of the Provost.

1. Undergraduate Policies and Evaluation Committee
   1. Membership: Ex officio - Vice President for Academic Affairs or designee, one school dean or designee; five faculty members; one undergraduate student. Advisory members when agenda requires: Librarian, Registrar, and the Director of the Center for Learning (or designees of these offices).
   2. Functions and duties:
      • Recommend and review implementation of University-wide policies, standards and procedures governing all undergraduate degrees and all new undergraduate programs;
      • Recommend University-wide policies and standards governing undergraduate curricula, special programs that are primarily related to undergraduate studies, and general education and other interdisciplinary programs including general honors;
      • Act on recommendations of school curriculum committees;
      • Review and evaluate the design and implementation of all undergraduate policies and programs, specifically including regular cycles of review of all undergraduate programs within schools;
      • Report actions and recommendations to Faculty Senate through Faculty Council
2. Graduate Policies and Evaluation Committee
   1. Membership: Ex officio - Vice President for Academic Affairs or designee, one school dean or designee; five faculty members (at least three of whom have graduate teaching responsibilities); one graduate student. Advisory members when agenda requires: directors of graduate programs; Librarian; Director of the Graduate Center; Registrar (or designees of these offices).
   2. Functions and Duties;
      • Recommend, coordinate, review and evaluate design and implementation of policies, standards, and procedures governing (1) all new continuing graduate programs, (2) special programs that are primarily related to graduate studies, (3) academic and honorary graduate degrees, and (4) admission, advising and retention of graduate students;
      • Review and evaluate the design and implementation of all graduate academic programs on a regular cycle;
      • Act on recommendations of school and department curriculum committees; and
      • Promote and advocate the interests of graduate programs, faculty and students.
3. School Curriculum Committees
   1. Membership: Each school shall select a faculty-student curriculum committee, the number of members, composition and procedures to be determined by the faculty of each school.
   2. Functions and duties:
      • Advise the school dean;
      • Recommend to the Undergraduate and Graduate Policies and Evaluation Committees courses to be offered, requirements for fields of specialization (majors and minors), and specific criteria for advanced standing and certification of credits by examination.
4. Faculty Affairs Committee
   1. Membership: Ex officio - Vice President for Academic Affairs or designee, one school dean or designee; seven faculty members. Advisory member when agenda requires: ASSP President or designee.
   2. Functions and Duties:
   • Recommend and review implementation of policies, standards, and procedures concerning contracts, salaries, fringe benefits, rank and tenure, leaves of absence; sabbaticals, faculty under contract for retirement; use of facilities designated for special faculty use (e.g. Faculty Center); special academic events and awards.
   • Recommend, in collaboration with the administration, changes to the Faculty Benefits Handbook (as a matter of faculty contracts).
   • Initiate other actions as provided in the Faculty Handbook.
5. Institutional Review Board
   1. Membership: The committee has five members: three Research Coordinators, one University administrator, and one person from outside the University. The person from outside the University must not be otherwise affiliated with the University and not be part of the immediate family of a person who is affiliated with the University. At least one RC must be from an academic school. The non-University representative would ideally have education in ethical and/or legal matters, but not necessarily have education in research. The IRB membership should be a representative as possible in gender, cultural background, and race. The IRB may not consist entirely of men or entirely of women. The Provost appoints IRB members for three-year terms. Terms should be staggered in order to insure continuity. If an RC resigns from RC status before the end of a three-year term, he or she will be replaced by another RC to fill out the time remaining on the term.
   2. Functions and duties:
      • Review policies and procedures for ethical and legal aspects of research that involves human participants and propose revisions as necessary.
      • Evaluate research proposals according to published criteria. The committee may approve the proposal or return it with comments to the researcher. Reports on approved proposals are sent to the Director of the Center for Scholarship and Faculty Development when the researcher is also applying for a Faculty Research Grant.
      • Act as a hearing and referral board for complaints about treatment of human participants in research that is conducted through the University.
      • Design and implement faculty in-service sessions on research ethics and law.
6. Admissions, Advising, and Retention Committee
   1. Membership: Ex officio - Vice President for Academic Affairs or designee, one school dean or designee; four faculty members; two undergraduate students. Advisory members when agenda requires: Associate Vice President for Academic Affairs, Registrar, Director of Student Financial Services, Director of Admissions, Director of the Center for Learning, and Associate Vice President/Dean of Student Life (or designees of these offices).
   2. Functions and Duties:
      • Review and recommend policies and standards pertaining to the faculty's role in undergraduate admissions, advising, and retention and the implications of these policies on academic mission and programs. This includes, but is not limited to, admission and retention, registration and records, academic advising, academic probation, and services for special student populations.
7. Diversity Committee
   1. Membership: Ex officio - Vice President for Academic Affairs or designee, one school dean or designee; five faculty members; two staff members elected or appointed through Staff Council; one undergraduate and one graduate student. Advisory members as the agenda requires may come from constituent groups across campus including, but not limited to, Admissions, Staff Council, Learning Resources and Campus Ministries.
   2. Function and Duties:
      • Recommend and review implementation of policies, standards, and procedures that assist in the recruitment and retention of an ethnically and culturally diverse faculty, staff and student body, including developing resources, programs, and tools.
      • Recommend and review implementation of policies, standards, and procedures that assist faculty in addressing ethnic and cultural issues in the curriculum and classroom.
      • Solicit diversity goals from constituent groups across campus and partner with them to achieve measurable progress towards these goals, providing an annual review of that progress to the faculty.
      • Develop a program of yearly assessment reports to the Faculty Senate through the Faculty Council on the progress toward diversity across campus.

B. Policy-recommending Committees in Areas of Faculty's Shared Responsibility
Committees in this category are responsible to the Executive Office and will report their actions and recommendations to the Faculty Council.

1. Intercollegiate Athletics Committee
   1. Membership: Ex officio - President's Faculty Athletic Representative to the NCAA, Director of Athletics, Associate Vice President/Dean of Student Life or designee; six faculty members (one of whom shall serve as chair); two undergraduate students; an alumnus designated by the Vice President for University Advancement, who shall not be a member of the Board of Trustees. Advisory members when agenda requires: Assistant Athletics Director for Compliance and the Senior Woman Athletics administrator.
   2. Functions and duties: Recommend and review implementation of policies, standards and procedures in the areas of athletic participation eligibility, budget, major sports, schedules, grants-in-aid, conference and national affiliations.

C. Operational Committees
Committees in this category are responsible to diverse offices as specified in “functions and duties” portions of descriptions.

1. Faculty Status Committee
   1. Membership: Ex officio - Vice President for Academic Affairs or designee; seven tenured faculty members.
   2. Functions and duties: Recommend to the President and the Board of Trustees faculty members for promotion, tenure, sabbatical leaves, and other leaves of absence; review non-reappointment of faculty members; other assigned duties.
2. Faculty Development Committee
   1. Membership: Ex officio - Director of the Center for Scholarship & Faculty Development, University Librarian, Director of Instructional Technology Services, one school dean (or designees of these offices); five faculty members; one undergraduate and one graduate student. Advisory members may be added when agenda requires.
   2. Functions and duties:
      • Recommend and review implementation of policies and programs in all areas pertaining to faculty development positively impacting teaching, scholarship, service and spiritual life.
      • Provide guidance for faculty in the areas of course design, class management, instructional methods and technologies, and the implementation and use of student course evaluations, etc.
      • Serve as an advisory board to the Center for Scholarship and Faculty Development.
      • Recommend criteria, review, and appoint a faculty subcommittee to approve proposals submitted for grants funded by the Office of Academic Affairs.

D. Task forces, ad hoc committees, and advisory groups

1. School committees. Schools may develop their own committee structures, including both standing and ad hoc committees.
2. Grievance committees. Ad hoc grievance adjudication panels shall be appointed as detailed under in the Faculty Handbook.
3. Other committees. All other task forces, study groups, and ad hoc committees dealing with primary or shared responsibilities of the faculty shall come under the purview of the Faculty Council for review of charge, term, membership, and selection of chair.
   1. Location of responsibility. The Faculty Council shall have the right to recommend to the Faculty Senate that such a proposed charge is better assigned to a standing committee or that the task should be shared with such a committee.
   2. Reports of committees other than school and grievance committees. The charge, term, membership and chair shall be announced in the Faculty-Staff Bulletin and to the Faculty Senate at the time the group is convened. A summary of findings and proposals will be sent to the Faculty Council.
4. Advisory groups with faculty as members may also be formed for specific purposes. Individuals are nominated by the coordinators of the programs being advised and are appointed by the Office of the Vice President for Academic Affairs, in consultation with the Faculty Council. Membership on such an advisory council shall not be considered membership on a standing committee of the faculty.
5. Standing Advisory Groups may be formed by groups of faculty as approved by majority vote in Faculty Senate. If the goals and composition of a Standing Advisory Group are approved by Senate, service in that group counts as university service for the purpose of promotion and tenure. Standing Advisory Groups are required to report their composition annually in October to Faculty Council. A group’s status as a Standing Advisory Group may be withdrawn at any time by majority vote of the Faculty Senate. Faculty Council is not responsible for maintaining the composition of Standing Advisory Groups, but such groups shall report to Faculty Council if requested to do so by the Chair of the Faculty.

Article B-III                                 SOURCES OF FACULTY LEGISLATION

All main motions (e.g. motions to adopt reports of committees) shall be written out and
distributed as part of the agenda.

Art. B-III, Section 1. Committees.
If a committee wishes to recommend legislation to the Faculty Senate, the statement of
that legislation and the committee’s action shall be recorded in the minutes or report sent
to the Chair of the Faculty, with a written request that the legislation be placed on the
agenda of the Faculty Senate.

Art. B-III, Section 2. The Faculty Council.
Members of the Faculty Council are charged to monitor the minutes and other reports of
committees to assure that items of general faculty interest are brought to the attention of
the Faculty Council. As the Executive Committee of the Faculty Senate, the Faculty
Council may request that committees bring items to the Faculty Senate for
consideration. The Faculty Council itself may submit items for the faculty senate
agenda. (See bylaws B-II section 1 F)

Art. B-III, Section 3. Unofficial faculty groups.
Any ten faculty members may propose agenda items by submitting a petition including
the main motion they wish to have considered, with a request that it be placed on the
Faculty Senate agenda, to the Faculty Council Chair.

Art. B-III, Section 4. Individual faculty members.
No motion is in order, which does not pertain to an agenda item. Any individual may
request that the Faculty Council consider submitting an issue as an agenda item to the
Agenda Committee.

Art. B-III, Section 5. Non-faculty sources.
Non-members may petition faculty committees or the Faculty Council to have specific
topics considered for submission to the Faculty Senate.

Article B-IV.                                 AMENDMENTS

These Bylaws may be amended as prescribed in Article V, Section 4 of the Constitution.

Article B-IV, Section 1.
Amendments to the Bylaws or constitution take effect following the last day of the
academic year in which they are approved, unless a different effective date is passed by
Faculty Council. At the end of each academic year the faculty chair will work with the
Office of Academic Affairs to update the bylaws and constitution to include any
amendments approved that year. The bylaws and constitution posted on the SPU web
page on the last day of the academic year (or another official date determined by the
Vice President for Academic Affairs) will be the official text for the next academic year.