The Faculty Senate

Role and Competence of the Faculty Senate

The Faculty Senate shall decide and promulgate academic policy for the University, acting with due regard to the requests and needs of the specific departments, divisions, schools and colleges, to the advice of the President of the University, and Vice-President for academic affairs of the university and to the regulations of the Board of Regents of the University of North Texas and the Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board. Such policies shall become official when published by the President in the official university policy publication.

The Faculty Senate may consider all other matters of general welfare to the University, including matters raised by Senators, by Senate committees and by the President of the University, and, through petition, by any other administrative official or body and by any full-time faculty member who shall then have the right to speak to the petition. Decisions on all such matters shall be final when approved by the President of the University, subject to the regulations of the Board of Regents of the University of North Texas (Faculty Senate Charter, Article I.)