Diversity and Resilience: How to Take What's At the Table and Make It Work – Dr. Sylvia Mason.
Definition and Role: The Faculty Senate is the institutional body that represents the voice of the general faculty. Further, the authority of the Faculty Senate emanates from the power of the general faculty and from delegations of authority and responsibility by the Board of Regents. Further, the general faculty, meeting in regular or called session, has the authority to overrule, modify, or negate any action or recommendation of the Faculty Senate.
The Faculty Senate of Kentucky State University exists:
To recommend broad academic policies for the University and to make regulations to implement the academic policies established by the Board of Regents
To approve all academic courses, except in those instances where accrediting agencies require approval of an autonomous curriculum committee
To recommend new graduate, baccalaureate, and associate degree programs and the abolition or suspension of such programs
To establish policies for the academic calendar and to approve the annual academic calendar
To advise the President on criteria and procedures for faculty appointments, reappointments, promotions, and the granting of tenure
To make recommendations to the President on the establishment, alteration, composition, and abolition of educational units
To advise the President on the planning for physical facilities and staff when these may affect the attainment of educational objectives
To recommend to the President conditions for admission to the University and to specific academic programs
To recommend to the President the requirements for specific graduate, baccalaureate and associate degrees
To provide a forum for the expression of opinion on matters relating to the well-being of the University, to provide a means for dissemination of information of interest to the faculty, and to provide a structure for study, planning, and the evaluation of academic programs and practices.
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