The agenda is prepared by the Executive Committee, in consultation with the president or the provost. Before each regularly scheduled meeting of the Academic Senate or the Academic Council, the Executive Committee holds a public meeting open to any member of the faculty or student body at which suggestions for agenda items are heard, thereby providing the vehicle through which individual faculty members, students or faculty-student groups and other organizations may initiate action. The Executive Committee announces this meeting in the State News and the MSU News Bulletin. For information about composition, procedures and functions of the various standing committees see Section 4 of the Bylaws for Academic Governance. Faculty and student members of the standing committees of the Academic Council are selected in accordance with the procedures specified in the Bylaws for Academic Governance.
Bylaws are an integral component of the governance system adopted in each academic unit.
These documents describe faculty consultation and advisement in the units and normally describe reappointment, tenure and promotion procedures.