It is primarily through committee service that the faculty participates in the governance of the College.  The faculty’s role in governance includes service on the faculty committees and their task forces as described in Volume IV of this handbook, as well as service on college committees and on task forces established by the administration.

Because the committee structure is so essential to the governance of the College, each committee is responsible for informing the faculty of its activities and for providing a procedure through which the faculty at large can participate in the work of the committee.

The faculty committee structure provides faculty participation in three major areas:  undergraduate academic issues, faculty welfare issues, and the graduate studies program.  A major committee deals with each area and, as needed, establishes task forces, which work for the committee.  A task force is a group of faculty which is assembled to accomplish a specific task and which is dissolved upon completion of that task or at a specified time. Through a coordinating committee, the committees present the results of their deliberations to the Faculty Senate.

A faculty member may not serve concurrently as an elected member of more than one of the following committees: The Coordinating Committee, the Academic Issues Committee, the Faculty Issues Committee and the Graduate Studies Committee. However, an elected member of one of these four committees may serve as an ex-officio member of another of these committees.

All of Section 1.7 is amended by action of the Faculty Senate following the procedures in Volume IV, Section  4.14  Revision of Volume I, Section 1.7 and Volume IV.