ARTICLE XIX

XIX.  POWERS AND ORGANIZATION OF THE FACULTY

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   1.  

      1. The Board acknowledges the faculty’s interest in and primary responsibility for making decisions in the areas of student’s admission requirements, curriculum of courses and/or laboratories offered through departments, subject matter of and methods of instruction in credit courses and/or laboratories offered by the College, research, and those aspects of student life which relate to the educational process.

      2. The advice of the faculty will be solicited by the President or his or her designee with respect to all decisions in the areas stated in part A.1.a. of this Article prior to making the decision.

   2. The establishment of requirements for degrees in course, the determination that such requirements have been met in any individual case, are responsibilities vested in the Board. The recommendations regarding the above and recommendations that degrees in course be conferred are responsibilities vested in the faculty.

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      1. Through appropriate faculty committees, the faculty shall actively participate in the making of recommendations to the President in the areas of:

         1. long-range planning; and

         2. the use of existing physical resources and the acquisition of additional physical resources; and

         3. priorities in the deployment of financial resources.

      2. The President or his or her designee shall comply with reasonable requests from the appropriate faculty committee for information pertinent to the faculty committee’s functions as specified in Part A, Section 3.a. of this Article.

   4. The advice of the faculty will be solicited with respect to decisions in the areas of curriculum of courses and/or laboratories not described in Part A, Section 1.a. of this Article and of subject matter of and method of instruction in courses and/or laboratories not described in Part A, Section 1.a. of this Article.

2. Organization

   1. All members of the faculty as defined in Article I, Section K of this Agreement are members of the faculty organization and shall have all rights and responsibilities deriving from such membership.

   2. The faculty shall have the right to adopt by-laws and other rules and regulations necessary for the carrying out of its duties and responsibilities. These by-laws, rules and regulations shall include but are not limited to:

      1. Manner, time, and frequency of its meetings.

      2. Voting procedures in meetings and qualifications for voting.

      3. Officers of the faculty, the qualifications for, procedures for election of, and duties of such officers.

      4. The delegation of powers to and establishment of committees of the faculty as well as qualifications and the manner of election or appointment of members to such committees.

      5. Duties, responsibilities, and procedures of committees.

   3. The faculty shall have the right to determine the manner in which it shall exercise its powers according to its own rules and regulations provided that it is consistent with or not otherwise provided for by the terms of this Agreement.

   4. Those faculty committees which are required by the provisions of this Agreement shall be established by the faculty. The Faculty Executive Committee shall notify the Academic Vice President of the committees of the faculty and of their membership, as soon as the committees are established.

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