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Faculty Governance

III.E Faculty Meetings and Agenda Committee

1. The Agenda Committee will prepare the schedule of meetings and agendas of the faculty meetings of the College.
2. The Agenda Committee will consist of three faculty elected at-large for two-year staggered terms, a department chair, selected by the department chairs, for a one-year term, and the Dean of the college (ex officio, non-voting), or a designated representative.
3. Any faculty nominated for the Agenda Committee must be willing to serve as Moderator. The faculty elects the moderator by a plurality vote for a term of one year.
4. The Moderator will preside over the Agenda Committee and the Faculty Meetings and is to facilitate the deliberations of the faculty.
5. At all regular faculty meetings the Dean shall have an opportunity to present a Dean's Report, to provide necessary information, participate in deliberations, and respond to faculty questions.
6. Conducting business:
   1. The Moderator will conduct faculty meetings in accordance with the current edition of Robert's Rules of Order, unless otherwise defined by the faculty. The Moderator may appoint a parliamentarian.
   2. A quorum shall be one-third of the full-time faculty of the college. Only full-time faculty may vote in a faculty meeting.
   3. An amendment to this policy may be approved only at a faculty meeting subsequent to the faculty meeting at which the amendment is proposed unless the amendment is determined, by a two-thirds vote of the faculty, to be trivial or so pressing that delay to the next faculty meeting is inadvisable. Approval of any amendment requires a majority of those voting, a quorum having been determined to be present.
   4. Proxy voting is not permitted.
   5. Agendas will be distributed at least three days prior to faculty meetings. Minutes will be distributed as soon as possible.

Approved January 12, 1988
Revised January 26, 2001