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Having a unified faculty governance structure coincides with the academic restructure of One Bethel. The current faculty governance is split into two categories, CAS faculty and CAPS/Sem/GS faculty. The goal in preparation for Fall of 2026 will be the align the governance to a single university-wide structure beginning in the Fall of 2025. Over the 2024-25 academic year, special groups of faculty and administration were tasked with developing charters to organize a new faculty governance structure for all faculty. Their work was based on recommendations of earlier faculty groups. Each element of faculty governance are based on four categories:
Faculty Governance Assembly
Curriculum
Academic Policy
Faculty Evaluation
Assessment
Faculty Governance Assembly (FGA)
Faculty Governance Assembly (FGA)
SCOPE:
SCOPE:
Governance committee scope and assignments
University-wide curricula changes (General Education)
Faculty Handbook amendments
Shared governance ideas/discussion
Liaison to administration
COMPOSITION:
COMPOSITION:
4 executive committee members, one elected from each college/school
(4 yr terms)
18 regular members, includes 1 librarian, distributed across schools
(3 yr terms)
Ex officio: President, Provost, Registrar, Staff Council Representative
Curriculum
Curriculum
3 Committees
3 Committees
University Curriculum
University Curriculum
New/revised majors/minors etc
Standards/processes for curriculum revision
Approve GenEd committee recommendations
General Education
General Education
Execute the curriculum
Approve new/revised courses
Recommend changes to structure to UCC, which would recommend to FSG
Course Approval Teams
Course Approval Teams
Approve new and substantially revised (learning outcome changes) courses
Recommend necessary revisions
Academic Policy
Academic Policy
SCOPE:
SCOPE:
Researches, creates, revises existing university academic policies, and approves academic policies and policy changes
COMPOSITION:
COMPOSITION:
2 faculty per academic college/school
Representation of post-trad programs required for each school
(3 yr terms)
Ex officio: Provost and/or Associate Provost, Registrar
Assessment
Assessment
Currently exists; members will look at scope and membership and recommend changes to FAC and CAS Senate if needed.
Faculty Evaluation
Faculty Evaluation
5 Committees of full time faculty with representation from each school:
REAPPOINTMENT
INITIAL TENURE
PROMOTION
TENURE RENEWAL
Sabbatical (currently exists)
COMPOSITION:
COMPOSITION:
Six full-time faculty;
representation from each school;
undergraduate and graduate representation;
Reappointments
>3 members tenured or have long-term clinical faculty contract; at least one member non-tenured or not on long-term clinical faculty contract.
Other committees:
all members, with at most one exception, must be tenured or on long-term clinical contract.
Ex-Officio: Associate Provost or designee from academic administrators
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