Ohio Administrative Code › Title 3344 - Cleveland State University › Chapter 3344-13 - Bylaws › Section 3344-13-01 - Bylaws of the faculty senate

Current through all regulations passed and filed through July 1, 2024
(A) College faculties. Membership and bylaws
			 (revised June 22, 2009.)
Each college, except the college of graduate studies
				and the honors college, shall have a college
				faculty constituted as follows: the president of the university; the chief
				academic officer; the dean, and associate deans,
				 of the college; and all
				persons assigned to the college with the faculty rank of professor, associate
				professor, clinical associate professor, assistant professor, clinical
				assistant professor, instructor, college assistant lecturer, college associate
				lecturer, college senior lecturer, research assistant professor, research
				associate professor, research professor, college of law clinical professor,
				college of law senior clinical professor, college
				of law legal writing professor, college of law senior
				legal writing professor, professor of practice, associate professor of
				practice, assistant professor of practice and emeriti.In cases involving doubt as to the proper college or colleges to which
				a person is assigned, assignment will be made by the chief academic officer
				after obtaining the recommendation of the deans concerned.
(B) Governance rights of college faculty
With the exception of emeriti
				faculty, all members of a college faculty shall be eligible to participate in
				all aspects of faculty governance at all institutional levels (academic unit,
				college, and university), except for peer review
				committee (PCR)
									 service, which is
				open solely to tenured faculty members.
(C) Each college shall establish a procedure
			 for ensuring student participation in college committees.
(D) The college of graduate studies shall
			 have a college faculty constituted as follows: the president of the university,
			 the chief academic officer; the dean, and
			 associate deans,  of the
			 college; all college deans; all full-time and adjunct faculty members of the
			 university regularly engaged in graduate activities who apply for admission and
			 are appointed to the graduate faculty by the dean of the college of graduate
			 studies. The dean of the college and the graduate council shall establish
			 standards for admission, continuance, resignation, and/or removal for cause of
			 any member of the graduate faculty from the college of graduate studies. The
			 dean shall maintain a current list of names of the graduate faculty members.
			 Such standards, as well as the bylaws of the college, shall be approved by the
			 faculty senate.
(E) A faculty
			 organization and bylaws consistent with these bylaws shall be approved by each
			 college faculty. It is the responsibility of the college faculty affairs
			 committee or its equivalent to encourage consistency between college and
			 university bylaws. The dean shall notify the secretary of the faculty senate as
			 to the organization plan and bylaws adopted by the college faculty and any
			 subsequent changes made in them.
Approved college bylaws and personnel policies will be
				maintained in updated form by the secretary of the faculty senate.
(F) Calling meetings.
The college faculty shall meet upon call of the dean of the
				college. Additional means of calling meetings may be established by the college
				faculty.
(G) Chairperson.
The dean of the college shall either be chairperson of the
				college faculty or make provision for a chairperson to be elected by the
				college faculty.
(H) Powers.
The several college faculties shall have the following general
				powers:
(1) To adopt, alter, or
			 abolish requirements for admission to the college subject to the approval of
			 the faculty senate (see paragraph (F) of rule
			 3344-13-03 of the Administrative
			 Code.)
(2) To adopt, alter, or
			 abolish courses and curricula subject, in certain cases, to the approval of the
			 faculty senate (see paragraph (E) of rule
			 3344-13-03 of the Administrative
			 Code.)
(3) To create and abolish
			 schools, bureaus, and departments of instruction within the college subject to
			 approval of the faculty senate (see paragraph (E) of rule
			 3344-13-03 of the Administrative
			 Code.)
(4) To adopt and abolish
			 academic degrees administered by them subject to the approval of the faculty
			 senate (see paragraph (E) of rule
			 3344-13-03 of the Administrative
			 Code.)
(5) To recommend to the
			 university curriculum committee and the faculty senate any changes in the
			 subject matter requirements within the college, for graduation from the
			 university or for the awarding of professional or advanced degrees (see
			 paragraph (E) of rule
			 3344-13-03 of the Administrative
			 Code.)
(6) To provide for the
			 transaction of the business of the college as provided by the established
			 precedents of the college and approved college bylaws and personnel
			 policies.