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APPENDIX A

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.

A. The Faculty Senate shall consist of both elected and ex officio members. Elected members shall be voting members and ex officio members shall be non-voting members.

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