University Bylaw 65
The Tenured/Tenure Track Faculty Senators Council

  • Functions. The Tenured/Tenure Track Faculty Senators Council may consider any matters of educational and administrative policy and will function as the Faculty Personnel Committee of the Senate with respect to the Tenured/Tenure Track Faculty. It will designate representatives on the other standing committees, and in appropriate instances on the ad hoc committees, of the Senate. It may bring to the attention of the various committees of the Senate any matters that it believes should be presented to the entire Senate. It may bring to the attention of the President and Chancellor any matters that it wishes to discuss with him or her. It may perform such other functions as are requested of it by the President and Chancellor, by the Board, or by the Senate.
  • Members. The Tenured/Tenure Track Faculty Senators Council will consist of not more than thirty-eight members of the Tenured/Tenure Track Faculty elected by the voting members of the several faculties of the University in the manner prescribed by the rules adopted by the Council for its own governance and consistent with these Bylaws.
  • Elections and Appointments. In order to best assure the effective operation of the Tenured/Tenure Track Faculty Senators Council, all elections for members of the Tenured/Tenure Track Faculty Senators Council should be held prior to the University Commencement in May. The name of each representative to the Senate should be transmitted to the Secretary of the Senate within five days of the University Commencement in May. The thirty-eight elected representatives will be selected as follows: one from the Division of the Libraries of the University; six from the School of Medicine; and thirty-one apportioned among the colleges, schools, and the Abu Dhabi and Shanghai portal campuses by the method of equal proportions with the proviso that each college and school and each of the two portal campuses will be entitled to at least one elected Senator. Each year, the University Secretary and General Counsel will provide to the Tenured/Tenure Track Faculty Senators Council and the dean of each college and school and the vice chancellor of each of the two portal campuses the number of faculty members assigned to each for the purpose of Senate elections and will at the same time state the number of Tenured/Tenure Track Faculty Senator Council Senators to which each is entitled. A Tenured/Tenure Track Faculty Senators Council Senator whose term has expired will be eligible for reelection. For purposes of the election, any Tenured/Tenure Track Faculty member who is a member of more than one faculty will be assigned by the President and Chancellor to one faculty only, and any Tenured/Tenure Track Faculty member, otherwise eligible to vote, who is not formally attached to a faculty will be assigned by the President and Chancellor to one of the faculties of the University. Any Tenured/Tenure Track Faculty member who holds an administrative office and whose administrative responsibilities encompass a college, school, portal campus, the Division of the Libraries, or the University will not be eligible for election to the Tenured/Tenure Track Faculty Senators Council. Final determination of eligibility for membership rests with the extant Tenured/Tenure Track Faculty Senators Council.
  • Officers of the Faculty Senate. The Tenured/Tenure Track Faculty Senators Council will elect its own chairperson and such other officers as it may determine.
  • Meetings. The Tenured/Tenure Track Faculty Senators Council will meet at least twice a year at the call and under the chairpersonship of the President and Chancellor and the Provost, and as many other times under its own chairperson as it may choose. It may meet from time to time with the Executive Committee of the Board.
  • Rules. The Tenured/Tenure Track Faculty Senators Council will adopt for its governance rules of procedure not inconsistent with the Charter and these Bylaws.