The Faculty Councils may make recommendations on all matters of university policy including, but not limited to the following:

 

1.      formation of the university budget;

 

2.      allocation of the university’s resources and facilities;

 

3.      long-range planning of the university;

 

4.      standards of appointment, reappointment, promotion, tenure and termination of members of the faculty;

 

5.      composition of faculty benefits and other matters of similar concern to the faculty;

 

6.      appointment of all major academic officers starting at the level of department chairs, deans and directors;

 

7.      establishment or discontinuance of existing academic units with constituent faculties, the renaming of academic units, the merging of academic units and the transfer of academic units between constituent faculties;

 

8.      new degrees and the discontinuance of existing degrees;

 

9.      admission standards and academic requirements for students:

 

10.    standards for curricula and content of all degree programs:

 

11.    standards and facilities for research and scholarship;

 

12.    evaluation of current programs, policies and organizational structures with regard to their effectiveness and exercising initiative in

 

 

13.    proposing the development and introduction of new programs, policies and organizational structures;

 

14.    awarding of degrees in course;

 

15.    awarding of honorary degrees;

 

16.    methods and procedures for eva1uating faculty and academic unit performance;

 

17.    methods and procedures for evaluating the performance of the administration and of administrative units;

 

18.    declarations of financial exigency; and

 

19.    recommending amendments to the Faculty Constitution and/or By-laws.