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CHAPTER ONE: 1540
HISTORY, MISSION, GENERAL ORGANIZATION, AND GOVERNANCE
July 2012
1540
STANDING RULES OF THE UNIVERSITY FACULTY
PREAMBLE: The university faculty have adopted for their convenience
certain standing rules, given in this section. This section appeared for the
first time in the 1979 edition of the Handbook and remains essentially in the
form it took then.
In 2009 constitutional
changes giving off-campus faculty voting rights at faculty meetings necessitated
adding venue determination to A.
In July 2011 processes were clarified and updated to
current practice and again in January 2012. In July 2012 changes were
made to D in order to align with Idaho’s open meeting law and clarify
non-members’ attendance at faculty meetings. For further information, consult the Office of the Faculty Secretary
(208-885-6151). [ed. 7-97, rev. 7-09, 7-11, 1-12,
7-12]
CONTENTS:
A. Voting Privilege
B. Referral of Catalog-Change Proposals
C. Circulation of Curricular and Policy Proposals
D. Admission of Nonmembers to Faculty Meetings
E. Procedures for First Fall Meeting
F. Minutes
G. Identification of Speakers
A. VOTING PRIVILEGE. Constituent faculties of colleges
and other UI units must limit the voting privilege to those
who are qualified under the provisions of the constitution
of the university faculty. [See
1520 II-1 and
II-3.]
Moreover, those who are qualified cannot be deprived of
their vote in meetings of constituent faculties. [See
1520
IV-8.] Emeritus and adjunct faculty,
staff, students, and others may be permitted to
participate in faculty meetings in an advisory capacity only, and
they may serve as voting members of committees (see FSH
1520 Article II,
Section 3 for affiliate voting rights). [rev. 1-12]
A-1. Venue Determination. Remote sites that seek full
participation at faculty meetings must submit to the Office of the Faculty
Secretary by April 15th (when senate elections are due) a participation form for
approval of their venue by Faculty Senate. The form is available on the
Faculty Senate website under
University Faculty
Meetings (see also
1520, III-1-A).
[add. 7-09, ed. 7-11, rev. 1-12]
B. REFERRAL OF CATALOG-CHANGE PROPOSALS. When substantive
catalog changes of a curricular nature that have not been
considered by the University Curriculum Committee are
presented directly to the university faculty, such proposals
are referred automatically to the University Curriculum
Committee for study and recommendation.
C. CIRCULATION OF CURRICULAR AND
POLICY PROPOSALS.
C-1. Routine Catalog-Change Proposals. Additions, deletions,
and changes of courses and changes in existing curricula
may, after approval by the University Curriculum Committee,
be circulated in a general curriculum report (GPR) to the
faculty for consideration and published at an appropriate UI web-site. [ed. 7-02,
7-11]
C-2. Policy-Change Proposals. Proposals that affect university policy
see FSH 1460. General university academic requirements,
e.g., those in part 3 of the catalog, or that concern the
addition or expansion of instructional programs may, after
approval by the Faculty Senate, be circulated in a general
policy report (GPR) to the faculty for
consideration. The report is also published on the Faculty Senate web-site and its publication announced
through electronic means to the faculty. [ed. 7-02, 7-09, 7-11]
C-3. Actions of the University Curriculum Committee and of
the Faculty Senate that are circulated in general
curriculum-policy reports (C-1 and C-2) are considered to have
the necessary faculty approvals unless a petition requesting
further consideration of specific items is signed by five
faculty members and submitted to the chair of the Faculty Senate within 14 calendar days after the date of
circulation. If no petition is received within 14 days, the
entire report is submitted to the president for approval and
transmittal to the regents, if regents' action is required. [ed. 7-09, 7-11]
C-4. If a petition is received, the items in the report for
which further consideration is requested will be referred to
the Faculty Senate, and the remainder of the report will
move forward. On items referred to it, the senate may (a)
affirm the action and report it to a meeting of the
university faculty, (b) amend the action and report it to a
meeting of the university faculty, or (c) rescind the
action. [NOTE: If a petition concerns courses or curricula
in the College of Letters and Science or in the College of
Agriculture, and is signed by five faculty members of the
respective college, those items will be returned to the
college concerned for further consideration.] [ed. 7-09]
C-5. Faculty Approval. Any policy item approved
by Senate and not circulated on a general policy report will be included in the
agenda of the next appropriate university faculty meeting for faculty approval.
Items approved at a university faculty meeting are forwarded to the president
for approval and transmittal to the regents, if regents' action is required.
See 1420 A-1 c. for time periods for presidential action on Faculty Senate
items. [add. 7-11]
C-6. Interim Approval. If there is insufficient opportunity
for the faculty to act on a routine catalog-change proposal
[see C-1] between the time of its approval by the University
Curriculum Committee and the date that it is to be
effective, it may be reported directly to the president.
Upon approval by the president, the change will be
considered temporarily approved for implementation. Such
interim approval is valid only until the end of the
succeeding semester. Actions thus approved will be reported
to the faculty at the earliest possible time, either in the
agenda for a faculty meeting or in a general
curriculum-policy report. Continuing approval of the change
is subject to ratification at a faculty meeting or by the
procedures described in C-3 and C-4. (To illustrate: Late in
the spring semester, the University Curriculum Committee
approves a routine catalog change that is to be effective
during the next fall semester. That action is reported to
the president and, if approved by the president, the change
can be put into effect. If it is included in a
curriculum-policy report that is circulated to the resident
faculty early in the fall semester, the approval of the
change may, by means of the steps outlined in C-3 and C-4,
become permanent or it may be terminated at the end of that
semester. Alternatively, the faculty may take either of
these actions in a meeting if the change is included in the
agenda.) [ren. 7-11]
D. ADMISSION OF NONMEMBERS TO FACULTY MEETINGS.
Nonmembers are welcome to attend meetings of the university faculty.
Nonmembers who wish to speak at such a meeting must submit a request to the
faculty secretary at least two business days in advance of the meeting
specifying both the topic and purpose of their comments. The faculty
secretary shall notify the senate chair and the President's Office. The
president and chair will decide whether to allow the guest to speak. All
nonmember speakers must identify themselves at the onset of their remarks.
[ed. 7-09, rev. 7-12]
E. PROCEDURES FOR FIRST FALL MEETING.
E-1. Substantive policy matters are not included in the
agenda for the first fall meeting of the university faculty
unless emergency action is needed on particular items.
E-2. To expedite the proceedings, each new member of the
resident faculty is introduced by name and department only.
The person's name, degrees, past experience, new assignment,
campus telephone number, and the location of his or her
office are supplied by each dean or division head to the
president's office well ahead of the meeting. The
president's office compiles the information by colleges or
similar units and distributes it at the meeting. [ed. 7-02]
F. MINUTES. Minutes of the meetings of the university
faculty, constituent faculties, and committees are to be
sent on a regular basis to the Department of Special
Collections and Archives in the University Library.
G. IDENTIFICATION OF SPEAKERS. Those who are recognized
by the chair for the purpose of speaking at meetings of the
university faculty are to identify themselves by name and
discipline or position.
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