Message from the Main Campus Faculty Council (MCFC) Chair.

A University is The Faculty and The Students working side by side in classrooms and laboratories in instructional and other scholarly endeavors. Everything else is Infrastructure.

Accordingly and appropriately, the Faculty Handbook includes a list of 19 items (see list below) that delineates a subset of university policy and management matters where the Faculty, through its Faculty Councils, makes recommendations, ultimately to the Board of Trustees, of university policy.

Please know that the Main Campus Faculty Council meets regularly the last Friday of each month each semester. Members of the Faculty, and Students, are cordially welcome to visit. Also members of the Faculty may request items to be put on the agenda.

The MCFC is made up of your elected representatives whose accepted responsibility it is to represent you. Please exercise your rights and privileges as members of the Faculty so we may know your concerns, recommendations, and interests.

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 evaluating 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.

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Peter Lykos

Professor of Physical Chemistry

Chairman of the Main Campus Faculty Council