Faculty Senate Bylaws
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  1. Membership
         
  2. Meetings 
         
  3. Officers & steering committee
         
  4. Faculty Assembly delegates
         
  5. Committees

    Appendices

III. Officers & steering committee

D. Steering committee duties
  1. Appoint the members of all standing committees of the Senate.
  2. Advise the Chancellor and chief academic officer on matters of mutual concern to both administration and faculty at such times that the full Senate is unable to convene.
  3. Provide for study and review of the Faculty Governance Document; Faculty Senate Bylaws; Policies of Academic Freedom and Tenure; and Faculty Handbook, and recommend to the Senate such revisions or amendments as are deemed appropriate and necessary.
  4. Conduct elections for Autonomous Faculty Committees [see procedures] and Faculty Assembly delegates.
  5. Assist the President of the Senate in preparing the agenda of Senate meetings.
  6. Assist the President of the Senate in preparing and administering the Senate budget.
  7. Determine whether recommendations originating with standing committees are substantive, and require a vote of the Senate. All such determinations shall be reported in a timely fashion to the Senate by the President of the Senate.

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