Formal resolutions advanced to the Provost will be on the basis of an affirmative vote of the active tenured and tenure track faculty. The Provost or Provost’s designee shall serve as an ex officio non-voting member. The voting members will consist of the Faculty Senate officers (6) and two members from each of the three largest schools (Engineering, Humanities, Arts & Social Sciences, and Science) and one from each of the two smaller schools (Architecture and Lally School of Management), which may change as School sizes and/or student enrollments change the non-voting members will consist of one representative each from the Professors of Practice and Lecturers on the Troy campus, Professors of Practice and Lecturers on the Hartford campus, the library, and retired faculty. The Faculty Senate shall consist of fourteen voting members and six non-voting members. In addition, faculty members who are involved in litigation against the Institute are not eligible to serve on the Faculty Senate. If a person is appointed to a position having any such title while holding a Senate office, he or she shall resign from the Senate or delay accepting the administrative appointment. Persons holding an administrative position at or above the level of department chair or department head, or in direct report to a Provost or President, including but not limited to those having the title Dean, Associate Dean, Assistant Dean, Provost, Associate Provost, Vice Provost, Vice President or President are not eligible to hold a Senate office except as listed below. The Senate shall consist of voting representatives from the active tenured and tenure-track faculty and non-voting representatives from Professors of Practice and Lecturers, librarians and archivists and retired faculty, as well as any ex officio members. Resolutions passed by the Senate shall help guide Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in scholarly activities and instruction, and important issues affecting the faculty in general will be presented to the faculty with recommendations for consideration and action. The Senate shall implement the faculty’s participation in key aspects of academic governance by recruiting and nominating faculty administering elections including elections to the Promotion and Tenure, Curriculum, and Planning and Resource committees, any standing and ad hoc committees, and other subsidiary bodies of the Senate as required providing a forum for policy deliberations on matters of importance to the faculty and advising the Provost as to faculty views in all matters relating to the principal missions of the Institute. The faculty’s role in the creation, understanding, and dissemination of knowledge is held in the highest esteem and will not be abridged. The Faculty Senate (Senate) shall represent the views of the faculty on issues affecting the common purposes of Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute.
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