Unlike the Senate, the Faculty Organization is not a representative body. In the Faculty Organization, any faculty member can attend meetings, speak and vote for himself or herself. This insures that all viewpoints, both the majority and the minority, can be presented for consideration. It also creates a forum for the free exchange of ideas and debate. On a small campus, the Faculty Organization meetings give faculty a opportunity to meet and get acquainted with their colleagues.
Meetings also serve as an information exchange between faculty and administrators.
If a senatorial form of governance were chose, Faculty Assemblies can be called by the President of the Senate or by the Chancellor for these purposes, but it is not likely they would be called every month. The challenge with Faculty Organization has been getting enough participation to make faculty voice strong and united. At present the meetings are attended by less than one-third of the faculty. Decisions about campus governance and faculty views are made by this minority group of faculty. In some cases, faculty want to participate in Faculty Organization, but cannot do so because they teach on Friday.