On July 1, 1967, Case
Western Reserve University
was created by action of the Trustees of Case Institute of Technology and Western Reserve University. The new university inherits the traditions of
two independent institutions, connected over the years by personal and
corporate relationships and by location.
Both institutions had deep roots in the traditions of the Western
Reserve of Connecticut. Leonard Case,
Sr., who came to Cleveland
in 1816, was an agent of the Connecticut Land Company from 1827 to 1855, and an
authority on its land titles. Western Reserve College
was founded in 1826 in Hudson
by a group of men who had pioneered in this new country. They were schooled in the New England college
tradition and determined to continue that tradition in Ohio
so that a new generation of professional men could be educated in the Western Reserve.
Although the early orientation of the college was towards classical
education and training for the ministry, there was a strong scientific interest
almost from the beginning. In 1836 the
observatory, third in the United States
and the first west of the Appalachians, was built, and Elias Loomis was
commissioned to spend a year in Europe,
studying and purchasing scientific equipment, before he took up residence at
the college as Professor of Mathematics and Natural Philosophy. In 1843, a group of seven physicians, intent
on starting a medical school in Cleveland, with
Leonard Case, Sr., as Chairman of its Board of Agency, affiliated the school
with Western Reserve
College as its medical
department. After that time, several
faculty members taught at both Hudson and Cleveland, especially in the natural
sciences. In 1826, the founders had
refused to consider Cleveland
as a location because it was a lake port, full of temptations for the innocent
student. Fifty years later, Cleveland was a flourishing city, determined to have a
university, and Western Reserve College -- trustees, faculty, and students -- found Cleveland considerably
more acceptable.
The group of Clevelanders who were negotiating with the
trustees of the College were encouraged by a sensational news story in January
of 1880. Leonard Case, Jr., scholarly,
Yale-educated, heir to Cleveland's
first great fortune, had left a substantial portion of it to found a scientific
school. Representatives of the new Case
School of Applied Science and of Western
Reserve College
met to discuss the possibility of sharing a tract of land to be purchased for
their use by public subscription. The
trustees of Case decided that ". . . very many advantages would accrue to
the students of each of these institutions, with a savings of expense both to
the institutions and to them, by their location in proximity with each
other." The issue was settled for
Western Reserve by the offer of Amasa Stone, a Cleveland
railroad builder and banker, in December of 1880, to re-found the College in Cleveland provided that it be located in close proximity
to Case School.
The parcel of land purchased by the contributions of
fifty-six Clevelanders in 1881 was the nucleus of the present campus of Case
Western Reserve and indeed of the whole University Circle. Amasa Stone had asked also that the name of
the College be changed to Adelbert in memory of his only son. The first buildings were not complete in
September, but Adelbert College began to hold classes in Cleveland in 1882. The first Case building, completed in 1885,
was gutted by fire in October of 1886.
Fortunately the equipment for the experiment which Albert A. Michelson
of Case and Edward W. Morley of Western Reserve were conducting to test the
theory of ether drift was rescued, and the project, basic to Einstein's work in
relativity, was completed in July of 1887 in Adelbert Hall. Case
School was fortunate in
its early faculty; it became a center for scientific and industrial research as
well as a technical institute training engineers. The change of name to Case Institute of
Technology in 1947 signaled the beginning of a period of great growth, both in
physical facilities and in emphasis on pure research and graduate
training. It also indicated a new orientation,
broadening the traditional scientific and engineering curricula to exploit new
resources and to meet new needs. Case
Institute of Technology celebrated its centennial in 1980.
Western Reserve University was chartered in 1884, succeeding Western Reserve College
in its affiliation with the School
of Medicine. In 1888, the University established the
College for Women, renamed Flora
Stone Mather
College in 1931. As the needs of the community became evident,
the University grew. In 1892, the School of Law
began operations, and in the same year, the School
of Dentistry was founded to supplement
the work of the School
of Medicine. In 1903, a donation from Andrew Carnegie
allowed the establishment of the School
of Library Science at the request of
the Cleveland Public Library, and in 1916, the social agencies of Cleveland petitioned for the founding of the School of Applied Social Sciences, the first in
its field to be affiliated with a university.
During the early 1920's, both the School
of Medicine and Lakeside Hospital,
precursor of University Hospitals, moved from downtown to their present
location on the campus. In 1923, the
Lakeside Hospital School of Nursing became a part of the University, and was
renamed Frances Payne Bolton School of Nursing in honor of its benefactor. The Institute
of Pathology was founded in 1929 as a
joint department of the University and University Hospitals. The juxtaposition of the University Hospitals
and the health science schools of the University created a major center for
medical study and care.
By the mid-twenties, the education of adults was a matter of
concern to thoughtful Clevelanders, and under the leadership of Newton D.
Baker, Cleveland College was founded in 1925 to fill that
need. Adelbert, Flora Stone Mather, and Cleveland Colleges
were then the undergraduate schools of Western Reserve University. In 1972, the three colleges merged into one
unit, which in 1973 took the historic name of Western Reserve College.
In 1926, the Graduate Department of the University was
reorganized as the Graduate School; it was joined by the Case Graduate
School in the
federation. In 1948, the Graduate School
of Business was established; and in 1967, the management activities of Case
joined it to form the School
of Management. In 1980, the School of Management
was named the Weatherhead School of Management, in recognition of a gift from
the Weatherhead Foundation.
During the 1950's, some of the advantages of proximity,
which had seemed promising in 1880, again became evident. Case Institute and Western Reserve University
united with University Hospitals to create the University Circle Development
Foundation, since joined by many other institutions in the area. Gradually, the two schools moved toward a
common calendar and joint services, merged their department of Philosophy,
allowed registration interchange, placed all language instruction at Western
Reserve, and formed cooperative departments of Astronomy at Case and Geology at
Western Reserve. Each step made the need for closer
cooperation more evident. In 1966, a
joint committee of trustees of Case Institute and Western Reserve University
created a commission chaired by Henry T. Heald to study the relationships and
potential of the two institutions. The
recommendation of the commission was unanimous and enthusiastic, suggesting
federation of the two schools as "an adventure in higher education without
precedent." Their final report was
entitled "Vision of a University" and led to the decision of the
trustees of both institutions to federate.
Case
Western Reserve University
was created on July 1, 1967. Having
adopted the date of founding of the older partner in the federation, the new
University celebrated its sesquicentennial in 1976.
The first president of Case Western Reserve
University was Robert W.
Morse, who had been appointed president of Case Institute of Technology a year
earlier. John S. Millis, who had been
president of Western Reserve
University since 1949,
became Chancellor of the new institution.
On President Morse's resignation in October, 1970, Louis A. Toepfer,
then dean of the School
of Law, became acting
president. He was appointed president in
September, 1971, and served until his resignation on June 30, 1980. David V. Ragone, former dean of the College of Engineering
at the University
of Michigan, became the
third president of the University on July 1, 1980. On July 1, 1987, the former provost of Dartmouth College, Agnar Pytte, took office as the
University's fourth president. David
Auston assumed the presidency on July 1, 1999.
The authority of Case
Western Reserve University
is vested in the Board of Trustees. Its
responsibilities include those of electing the president, establishing
policies, approving the appointment, promotion and tenure of faculty,
authorizing the establishment or discontinuance of any particular academic unit
of the University, and approving the University's budget. Trustees normally serve a three-year
term. The trustees exercise their
responsibility to monitor academic programs through a network of visiting
committees for the major divisions of the University. The visiting committees serve as a link
between the college, school, or academic division and the Board of Trustees,
reporting to the Board's Academic Affairs Committee or Student Life Committee,
as appropriate.
The president is the chief executive officer of the
University. The provost, who reports to
the president, is the University's chief academic officer. Reporting to the provost are the deans of the
University's schools: Mandel School of
Applied Social Sciences, School of Dentistry, School
of Law, Weatherhead School of
Management, Frances Payne Bolton School of Nursing, The Case School of
Engineering, the College of Arts and Sciences, and the School of Graduate Studies. The dean of the University's School of Medicine also serves as vice president
for medical affairs and reports to the president.
(For a lively, comprehensive account of the University, see Case Western Reserve: A History of the
University 1826-1976, by C. H. Cramer, Little Brown and Company (1976),
published on the occasion of the sesquicentennial.)
The Board of Trustees of the University has delegated to the
University Faculty certain powers and responsibilities coextensive with the
scope of faculty competence and consisting of the conduct of the institution's
educational, research and scholarly activities.
These activities inherently require action in concert among the various
scholarly disciplines, and thus call for a coherent structure of group policy
formulation and group procedure. The
provision of such a structure is the essential function of this constitution.
The University Faculty is comprised of three different
categories of faculty appointments: 1)
tenured or tenure track appointments, 2) non-tenure track appointments, and 3)
special appointments. Each engage in the
missions of faculty of the University as described below:
Tenured or tenure track faculty members are those persons
holding full-time academic appointments at the ranks of professor, associate
professor, and assistant professor in the constituent faculties whose
obligations to the University include 1) teaching, 2) research and scholarship,
and 3) service to the University community.
Tenured or tenure track faculty shall be entitled to vote on all matters
coming before the University Faculty as well as all matters coming before the
constituent faculties in which they are appointed. All academic titles shall be discipline-based.
Non-tenure track faculty members are those persons holding
full-time academic appointments at the ranks of professor, associate professor,
assistant professor, senior instructor, and instructor in the constituent
faculties whose obligations to the University include two of the three
obligations of the tenured/tenure track faculty, i.e. 1) teaching, 2) research
and scholarship or 3) service to the University community. Non-tenure track faculty members shall be
entitled to vote on all matters coming before the University Faculty. They may be entitled to vote on matters
coming before the constituent faculties in which they are appointed, in
accordance with the by-laws of their constituent faculties. All academic titles shall be
discipline-based.
Special faculty members are:
1) those persons holding part-time academic appointments, or 2) persons
holding full-time academic appointments, but who have specific, limited
responsibilities for the duration of a specific project, or for a limited
duration. Examples of special
appointments are faculty members hired for one semester, who teach one course
on a repeated basis, who engage in clinical supervision only without other
responsibilities to the University, or who are engaged in a specific project
conducted outside the University. In
general, special faculty members’ obligations to the University shall include
one of the three obligations of the tenured/tenure track faculty, i.e. 1) teaching,
2) research and scholarship or 3) service to the university community. The titles held by special faculty members
shall be determined according to the by-laws of the constituent faculty to
which their appointment is made, subject to approval by the provost, and shall
include a modifier to traditional ranks that reflects the nature of the
appointment. Special faculty members
shall not be entitled to vote on any matter coming before the University
Faculty. They may be entitled to vote on
matters coming before the constituent faculties in which they are appointed, in
accordance with the by-laws of their constituent faculties.
Unless otherwise stated in the by-laws or by separate
resolution of the constituent faculty, the proportion of tenure/tenure track
faculty to non-tenure track faculty within a constituent faculty will be
decided by the dean in consultation with that constituent faculty, subject to
review by the Faculty Senate and the approval of the provost. However, except under special circumstances
which are reviewed by the Faculty Senate and approved by the provost, at least
a majority of the voting University Faculty members within each constituent
faculty shall be tenured or tenure track faculty members. The provost will monitor and must approve
available tenured or tenure track positions in all constituent faculties.
The president of the University, the provost or a deputy
designated by the president, the secretary of the University Faculty, and such
other officers of the University as may be specified in the by-laws of the
Faculty Senate shall be voting members of the University Faculty by virtue of
office.
By September 1 of each year, the dean of each constituent
faculty shall furnish to the Secretary of the University Faculty a list of all full-time
members of that constituent faculty who comprise the University Faculty,
according to the above definitions, showing their respective ranks and voting
privileges. Faculty additions or
deletions from the list shall be communicated to the Secretary of the
University Faculty when they occur. Unless a written challenge is filed with
the Secretary of the University Faculty, each person whose name appears on any
of these lists shall be a member of the University Faculty. Such a challenge
shall be adjudicated by the Faculty Senate.
The president of the University shall be chair of the
University Faculty.
The chair of the Faculty Senate shall be vice chair of the
University Faculty.
The secretary of the University Faculty shall prepare and
distribute to every member of the University Faculty, as defined in Article I,
Section A-C, a Faculty Handbook
setting forth all university policies and procedures directly affecting members
of the University Faculty.
Those authorities delegated by the Board of Trustees to the
faculty for the educational, research and scholarly activities of the
University shall reside in the University Faculty.
The University Faculty, on recommendation of the Faculty
Senate, as provided in Article V, Section A, Paragraph 2, shall make
recommendations to the president for consideration and transmittal to the Board
of Trustees concerning the establishment, discontinuance, or separation of any
college, school, or constituent faculty, or the merging of two or more of such
organizational units, or the consolidation of the University with other
academic organizations. The University
Faculty shall have the rights of initiative and referendum under procedures
specified in Article VIII.
The University Faculty shall have an annual meeting early in
the fall term. The agenda for the annual
meeting shall include a report by the president on the state of the University
and such additional business as may be introduced by the process of initiative
as provided in Article VIII.
Special meetings of the University Faculty may be called by
the president or by the Faculty Senate, or upon a petition of ten percent of
the voting members of the University Faculty stating the purpose of the
proposed meeting. The petition shall be
delivered to the secretary of the University Faculty who shall certify it to the
president, who in turn shall call the special meeting.
An emergency meeting of the University Faculty may be called
by the president or by the chair of the Faculty Senate.
The chair of the Faculty Senate, or on the chair's designation,
the secretary of the University Faculty, shall notify each member of the
University Faculty at least ten days before each annual meeting and special
meeting. Such notification shall be in
writing and shall specify the time, the place, and the agenda of the
meeting. Any main motion to be
introduced at an annual meeting or a special meeting shall be included in the
agenda.
Par. l. A quorum of a meeting of the University Faculty
shall consist of thirty percent of the voting members, except that at a meeting
called by petition, a quorum shall be forty percent.
Par. 2. Meetings shall be conducted according to the latest
edition of Robert's Rules of Order Newly
Revised, unless otherwise specified.
Par. 1. There shall be a Faculty Senate, which shall meet
regularly to exercise all powers of the University Faculty not reserved to the
University Faculty itself or delegated elsewhere by the University Faculty.
Par. 2. The powers and obligations of the Faculty Senate
shall include but not be limited to those following:
a. Making
recommendations to the University Faculty on all issues presented to the
University Faculty, including those specified in Article III, Section B.
b. Making
recommendations to the president for consideration and transmittal to the Board
of Trustees with respect to policies governing:
1. Standards
of appointment, reappointment, promotion, tenure and termination of service of
members of the constituent faculties;
2. Standards
for curricula and content of all degree programs;
3. Standards
and facilities for research and scholarship;
4. Admission
standards and academic requirements for students;
5. Awarding
of degrees in course;
6. Awarding
of honorary degrees.
c. Making
recommendations to the president for consideration and transmittal to the Board
of Trustees with respect to:
1. New degrees and the discontinuance of
existing degrees;
2. The establishment or discontinuance of
departments within constituent faculties, as provided in Article VII, Section
B, the renaming of departments, the merging of departments, or the transfer of
departments between constituent faculties;
3. Modifications in the university calendar
other than those of administrative feasibility.
d. Advising
and consulting with the president on the appointment of major academic officers
other than those of individual constituent faculties, on the formulation of the
budget, on the allocation of the University's resources and facilities, on
long-range planning, on the composition of faculty benefits, and on other
matters of similar concern to the University Faculty.
e. Reviewing
current programs, policies and organizational structures with regard to their
effectiveness, and exercising initiative in proposing the development and
introduction of new programs, policies, and organizational structures.
f. Recommending
amendments of this constitution, as provided in Article IX.
Par. 1. The by-laws of the Faculty Senate shall provide as
to frequency of regular meetings and emergency meetings, provided, however,
that each year the Faculty Senate shall hold not fewer than two regular
meetings during the period from September to December, inclusive, nor fewer
than two during the period from January to May, inclusive.
Par. 2. The by-laws of the Faculty Senate shall specify
rules concerning the calling of meetings by petition or otherwise, notice of
meetings, agenda, quorum, meeting procedures, and the distribution and approval
of minutes.
The voting members of the Faculty Senate shall be the
president of the University, the provost or a deputy designated by the
president, the secretary of the Faculty Senate, elected voting members of the
University Faculty apportioned as specified in Article V, Section F, the chair
of each standing and ad hoc committee
of the Faculty Senate, for the duration of such committee chairmanship, one
undergraduate student, one student enrolled in the School of Graduate Studies,
and one student enrolled in a post-baccalaureate program in any of the
professional schools, the three student members to be selected by their
respective constituencies.
Members of the Board of Trustees, a deputy appointed by the
provost, vice presidents, deans, and other academic officers of equivalent
rank, as well as others designated in the Faculty Senate by-laws may attend all
meetings of the Faculty Senate and may participate in its discussions. Student and faculty members of committees of
the Faculty Senate who are not elected senators may attend all meetings of the
Faculty Senate, and may participate in the discussions of the Faculty Senate
related to their committee's work. Other
members of the university community may attend designated meetings with the
permission of the chair.
Par. 1. The Faculty Senate shall elect annually from among
the voting members of the University Faculty a chair-elect, who shall serve as
vice chair during his or her first year of office and shall become chair of the
Faculty Senate during his or her second year in office and past chair in the
third year. If not already an elected
member of the Faculty Senate, the vice chair, the chair, and the past chair
shall be voting members of the Faculty Senate by virtue of office. The chair of the Faculty Senate, or in the
chair's absence, the vice chair, shall preside over the Faculty Senate and shall
be vice chair of the University Faculty.
Par. 2. The secretary of the University Faculty shall serve ex officio as secretary of the Faculty
Senate.
Par. 3. Additional officers of the Faculty Senate may be
selected in a manner and for duties and terms to be specified in the by-laws of
the Faculty Senate.
Par. 1. APPORTIONMENT.
Pursuant to Article V, Section C, each constituent faculty of fewer than
seventy voting members of the University Faculty shall elect three voting members
of the Faculty Senate, each constituent faculty of at least 70 but fewer than
150 shall elect five and each constituent faculty of 150 or greater shall elect
ten. The Department of Physical
Education and Athletics shall have one voting member of the Faculty
Senate. For purposes of apportionment,
the membership of any constituent
faculty shall be deemed to consist of only those members who are voting members
of the University Faculty as defined in Article I. Reapportionments shall be made prior to
senatorial elections in any year as may be required by changes in the number of
members of each constituent faculty or by changes in the number or identity of
constituent faculties. For the purpose
of such reapportionment, the secretary and the chair of the Faculty Senate
shall have reference to the lists of faculty members furnished by the deans of
the constituent faculties as provided in Article I of this constitution and
shall inform each dean as to the resulting number of senators to be elected that
year by that faculty.
Par. 2. ELECTION. Each elected faculty member of the Faculty
Senate shall be elected by majority vote of the constituent faculty
represented, but no one such member shall represent more than one electorate. The Department of Physical Education and
Athletics shall elect its faculty senator by majority vote. Each member of the University Faculty holding
appointments in more than one constituent faculty shall vote in senatorial
elections and be eligible for election to the Faculty Senate as a member of
that faculty in which the member holds the primary appointment. The senatorial elections shall be held in the
spring semester. The newly elected
senators shall take their seats at the first meeting subsequent to the spring
commencement.
Par. 3. TERM OF OFFICE.
The elected faculty senators representing constituent faculties shall
serve overlapping three-year terms to end on commencement day of the terminal
year. The faculty senator of the
Department of Physical Education and Athletics shall serve a three-year
term. Excepting as otherwise provided in
this constitution, any elected faculty senator who shall have been a member of
the Faculty Senate for three consecutive years shall not be eligible for election for a fourth consecutive year,
whether representing the same or another constituency, but after the lapse of
one year following three consecutive years of membership, he or she shall again
be eligible for election.
Par. 4. VACANCIES OTHER THAN LEAVES OF ABSENCE. Faculty senatorial vacancies, other than
those occasioned by leaves of absence from the University, shall be filled for
only the unexpired portion of the term.
The incumbent who completes the unexpired term shall, upon completion,
be eligible for immediate election to serve for a maximum of three additional
consecutive years.
Par. 5. LEAVES OF ABSENCE.
Faculty senatorial vacancies occasioned by leaves of absence from the
University shall be filled for only the duration of the absence. Should the period of absence terminate before
the end of the senatorial term so vacated, the original incumbent, upon return
to the University, shall resume membership and complete the term. Should the period of absence terminate at the
same time as the senatorial term, both the original incumbent and the incumbent
who shall have completed the vacated term shall be eligible for immediate
election to serve for a maximum of three additional consecutive years.
Each year, the chair of the Faculty Senate shall submit to
all members of the University Faculty a report on the activities of the Faculty
Senate that year.
Par. 1. The Executive Committee shall consist of thirteen
persons. The president of the
University, or, in the absence of the president, a deputy designated by the
president; the provost; the chair of the Faculty Senate; the vice chair of the
Faculty Senate; the immediate past chair of the Faculty Senate; the secretary
of the University Faculty shall be members ex
officio. In addition, there shall be
seven faculty members of the Faculty Senate elected at large by the Faculty
Senate for one-year terms. A member may
be successively re-elected to membership of the Executive Committee for the
duration of his or her term as a member of the Faculty Senate. The chair of the Faculty Senate or, in the
absence of the chair, the vice chair shall serve as chair of the Executive
Committee.
Par. 2. The Executive Committee shall consult with the
president on such matters as the president may bring before it; it shall be
empowered to act for the Faculty Senate between meetings on matters requiring
emergency action; and it shall advise the president in the selection of
officers of academic administration whose positions carry responsibilities
extending beyond a single constituent faculty.
Par. 3. The Executive Committee shall set the agenda for
meetings of the Faculty Senate, subject, however, to such exceptions as may be
specified in the by-laws of the Faculty Senate.
Par. 4. The Executive Committee shall report all actions and
recommendations to the Faculty Senate.
Par. 1. The Nominating Committee shall consist of voting
members of the University Faculty, one representing each constituent faculty,
to be selected by the faculty senators representing that faculty. The dean of each constituent faculty shall
administer the selection. The term of
membership on the Nominating Committee shall be two years. A member of the Nominating Committee may
serve no more than two terms consecutively.
Members shall serve overlapping two-year terms.
Par. 2. The Nominating Committee shall nominate candidates
for the position of chair-elect and for membership of the standing and ad hoc committees of the Faculty Senate,
unless otherwise specified. The Faculty
Senate shall elect a chair-elect and members of such standing and ad hoc committees from the nominees
named by the Nominating Committee, except that additional nominations shall be
invited from the floor. No nominations
shall be valid unless the proposed nominee shall have signified in advance a
willingness to serve.
Par. 1. The Budget Committee shall consist of six voting
members of the University Faculty, at least three of whom must be elected
members of the Faculty Senate, the chair of the Committee on Faculty
Compensation ex officio, and such
additional members ex officio as
shall be specified in the by-laws.
Members of the committee shall be elected to serve overlapping
three-year terms. Should the terms of
senatorial members of the Budget Committee extend beyond their terms as members
of the Faculty Senate, they shall complete their committee terms as
non-senatorial members.
Par. 2. The Budget Committee shall participate with the
university administration to assure that the budgetary goals and priorities are
responsive to the academic plans.
Par. 3. The Budget Committee shall review and report to the
Faculty Senate on the adherence to budgetary priorities and the attainment of
budgetary goals. The Budget Committee
shall advise the Faculty Senate on the financial feasibility of the
University's current and planned education programs, activities, and
facilities, and their effect on the operating budget, capital requirements, and
financial health of the University. The
Budget Committee shall also advise the Faculty Senate on budgetary questions as
they affect current and planned educational programs, activities, and
facilities.
Par. 4. The members of the Budget Committee shall serve also
as the elected faculty representatives of the University Budget Committee which
reports to and advises the president in the preparation of the budget of the
University.
Par. 1. The Committee on Graduate Studies shall consist of
the dean of graduate studies, ex officio,
the vice president for research and technology management, ex officio, nine voting members of the University Faculty elected
for overlapping three-year terms, three graduate student members elected for
one-year terms, and the professional school senator, ex officio. The Nominating
Committee, in consultation with the dean of graduate studies, shall select
nominees for election to the committee on the basis of participation in
graduate research and in graduate study and instruction. Such selection shall be broadly
representative of graduate disciplines.
Par. 2. The Committee on Graduate Studies shall review and
recommend to the Faculty Senate with respect to the academic standards and
degree requirements of all departmental, inter-departmental, inter-divisional
constituent faculty, and ad hoc and
special programs under the administration of the dean of graduate studies.
Par. 1. The by-laws of the Faculty Senate shall provide for
additional standing committees and shall assign explicitly to each the
appropriate areas of Senate powers and obligations from among those enumerated
in this constitution, Article V, Section A.
Par. 2. As may be provided in the by-laws of the Faculty
Senate, members of such additional standing committees may include members of
the university community who are not themselves members of the Faculty Senate.
Par. 3. All standing committees shall report to the Faculty
Senate.
Par. 1. Ad hoc
committees of the Faculty Senate may be established by the Executive
Committee. The Executive Committee shall
provide each such ad hoc committee
with a specific charge stated in writing, and the ad hoc committee shall confine itself to the fulfillment of this
charge unless otherwise authorized in writing by the Executive Committee. The maximum term of any such ad hoc committee shall be twelve months,
subject to extension at the discretion of the Executive Committee.
Par. 2. At the discretion of the Executive Committee, such ad hoc committees may include members of
the university community who are not themselves members of the Faculty Senate.
The Faculty Senate may participate on behalf of the
University Faculty in the establishment of multipartite committees and
commissions of faculty and other agencies and groups of the University. The Faculty Senate shall approve the faculty
membership of such bodies on recommendation of the Nominating Committee.
Par. 1. For the purpose of organization and execution of the
educational and research programs of the University, the University Faculty
shall be organized into constituent faculties, each responsible for a
particular professional or scholarly discipline or group of related
disciplines. In pursuit of this
function, each constituent faculty shall discharge the following obligations:
a. The recommendation to the president of
promotions and of initial appointments at these ranks;
b. Recommendation to the president of tenure
appointments;
c. The
election of faculty members to the Faculty Senate;
d. The recommendation to the Board of Trustees
of awarding of degrees in course.
Each constituent faculty shall be governed in accorda
