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Duties and Responsibilities of the Academic Council From the Elon Faculty Handbook
ARTICLE VI Section 1. Membership. The Academic Council shall consist of eleven members elected for terms of three years, the president, without vote, and/or the provost/vice president for academic affairs, without a vote. On occasions when the Council so requests, the president and the provost/vice president for academic affairs shall not not meet with the Council. Such requests may be made as a matter of course, and need not signify any exigency. In addition, the president and the provost/vice president for academic affairs will not meet with the Council when it is serving as a nominating committee or as a hearing committee. Elections to the Academic Council occur on a three-year cycle. In the first year of the cycle one member shall be elected from each of the following divisions: (1) fine arts and humanities; (2) mathematics and natural sciences; and (3) social sciences. In the second year of the three-year cycle, one member shall be elected from each of the following: (1) School of Education; (2) Martha and Spencer Love School of Business; (3) School of Communications; and (4) a member of the academic support staff with faculty rank. In the final year of the three-year cycle, four at-large members shall be elected by the faculty.
(a) Eligibility to Serve. To serve as a voting member of the
Academic Council, a faculty member must be a voting member
under the terms of these bylaws, must have two years of
service on the faculty, and must hold the rank of assistant
professor or above. No more than two members of the faculty
whose principal duties are administrative may serve on the
council at any one time.
Year One:
Fine Arts and Humanities; Mathematics and Natural Sciences;
and Social Sciences
(e) Right of Recall. The faculty reserves the right of recall of any member of the Council. A two-thirds vote of the faculty shall be required. (f) Re-election or Reappointment. No member of the Council shall serve for more than two consecutive terms.
Section 2. Officers of the
Council. The members shall elect annually a chair
and a secretary, who, in the absence of the chair, shall
serve in his/her place. Section 3. Powers and Responsibilities of the Council.
(a) The Academic Council shall act as coordinating committee
of the faculty and shall deliberate on any matter within the
province of the faculty for the purpose of formulating
general policy for approval or disapproval of the faculty.
Those matters which are the responsibility of standing
committees shall be referred to the appropriate committee. (c) In its role as coordinating committee of the faculty, the Academic Council shall communicate regularly with members of standing committees. Faculty representatives of standing committees who have concerns about issues of shared governance in areas relevant to their committee should report those concerns to the Academic Council. The Council shall consider these concerns and, where it deems appropriate, formally address them in regular Council meetings. On matters deemed to be of general concern, the Council may report directly to the faculty, or request that standing committees do so. In addition, the Academic Council shall collect formal reports on a yearly basis from the chairs of all standing committees. (d) The Council shall act in an advisory capacity to the president. It shall advise the president on the setting of priorities and the planning of long-range goals for the university. The Council shall avail itself of pertinent information that is required to carry out these advisory duties effectively. (e) The Council shall supply the faculty yearly with information relevant to its participation in the formulation of the goals and priorities of the university and shall supply the faculty yearly with information relevant to these priorities and goals. (f) The Council shall serve as a nominating committee for elective members of standing committees of the faculty, submitting to the faculty at least one week in advance of the faculty meeting one name for each place to be filled. The Council shall secure consent of persons being nominated. (g) The Council shall develop and maintain a Statement of Professional Standards and publish it upon adoption by the faculty. Council shall submit proposed amendments to this statement to the faculty. Approval shall require an affirmative vote of the majority of the voting members present at a regular meeting of the faculty subsequent to the one in which the proposal was presented.
(h) Elected members of the Council shall serve as a hearing
committee, when a hearing is to be held, in cases involving
the dismissal or suspension of a faculty member or charges of
unprofessional conduct against a faculty member.
Section 4. Meetings and Procedures
of Council. The council shall determine its place of
meeting and its procedures. Meetings of the council shall be
held no less than once a month during the academic year and
at such other times as it shall deem necessary. ARTICLE IX Quorum Section 1. Meetings of the Faculty. At regular or special meetings of the faculty, two-thirds of the voting members shall constitute a quorum. Section 2. Meetings of the Academic Council. At meetings of the Academic Council, two-thirds of the voting members shall constitute a quorum.
Section 3. Meetings of the Standing
Committees. At meetings of the standing committees,
a majority of the voting members shall constitute a
quorum. |
