It is the intent of this Alliance to promote and encourage research, education, and technology transfer at MSU in furtherance of the mission of the university to create new knowledge and to serve the people of the state and the nation. The Alliance strives to represent the general goals and aspirations of the research faculty of MSU, but not to do so to the detriment of the operation of the university community as a whole. The Alliance meets in regular open session convened not less than three times per year, and in special executive session as the need arises, operating under by-laws enacted by vote of the enfranchised constituency. The regular open sessions serve as a forum for the discussion of issues pertinent to the promotion of research on the campus of MSU, which may result in recommendations or petitions by the Alliance to the Vice President for Research Creativity and Technology Transfer. In special sessions a committee of the Alliance may undertake to investigate contentious conduct in the administration, prosecution, or documentation of research which may be referred to the Alliance by the Vice President, or offer advice and opinion, as requested, on the resolution of disputes dealing with its constituency in a context not clearly within the jurisdiction of an established administrative unit of the university.
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Jean Starkey lab. By-Laws of the Research Faculty Alliance I. Eligibility for membership in the Alliance Voting membership in this Alliance is tendered to members of the research faculty of Montana State University, as defined in the Charter of the Alliance. The Alliance will meet as a committee of the whole on the Montana State University campus at least three times per year, with one meeting scheduled for early in each academic semester. Meeting times and locations will be announced by posting on the Alliance web site, by e-mail to individual members, and by written notices mailed to members and to academic departments for display at departmental announcement sites. There shall be an Executive Committee of the Research Faculty Alliance which shall have the authority to act on behalf of the Alliance as a surrogate for the committee of the whole except insofar as procedures are specified in the charter or by-laws for the action considered.