{"id":355,"date":"2021-09-24T16:13:04","date_gmt":"2021-09-24T16:13:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.butler.edu\/academics\/faculty-senate\/"},"modified":"2025-09-30T09:13:15","modified_gmt":"2025-09-30T13:13:15","slug":"faculty-senate","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.butler.edu\/academics\/faculty-senate\/","title":{"rendered":"Faculty Senate"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<section style=\"--hero-accent:#00a3e0\" class=\"hero hero--standard alignfull has-no-block-start-margin hero--has-image hero--no-social-links wp-block-butler-hero-standard\">\n\t<div class=\"hero__container container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<h1\n\t\t\t\tclass=\"hero__headline butler-auto-contrast\"\n\t\t\t>\n\t\t\t\tFaculty Senate\t\t\t<\/h1>\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t<\/div>\n\n\t<div class=\"hero__inner-blocks\">\n\t\t<div class=\"wp-block-buttons hero__button-list is-layout-flex wp-block-buttons-is-layout-flex\"><\/div>\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\t<div class=\"hero__extra\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1440\" height=\"310\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.butler.edu\/www\/sites\/3\/2021\/10\/08093637\/summer2018-041.jpeg\" class=\"hero__image\" alt=\"Butler University academic building\" style=\"object-position: 50.00% 50.00%;\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cdn.butler.edu\/www\/sites\/3\/2021\/10\/08093637\/summer2018-041.jpeg 1440w, https:\/\/cdn.butler.edu\/www\/sites\/3\/2021\/10\/08093637\/summer2018-041-300x65.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/cdn.butler.edu\/www\/sites\/3\/2021\/10\/08093637\/summer2018-041-1024x220.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/cdn.butler.edu\/www\/sites\/3\/2021\/10\/08093637\/summer2018-041-768x165.jpeg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1440px) 100vw, 1440px\" \/>\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t<\/section>\n\n\n<section class=\"content-block content-block--has-menu wp-block-butler-content-block\">\n\t<div class=\"content-block-container\">\n\t\t<div class=\"content-block-layout\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"content-block-menu-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<nav class=\"content-block-menu-nav\" aria-label=\"Site menu\" id=\"page-nav\"><div class=\"content-block-menu-wrapper\"><header class=\"content-block-menu-header\"><span class=\"content-block-menu-header-label\">Faculty Senate Menu<\/span><button type=\"button\" class=\"content-block-menu-mobile-toggle\" title=\"Toggle menu\" aria-label=\"Toggle menu\" aria-expanded=\"false\"><\/button><\/header><ul class=\"content-block-menu-list\"><li class=\"content-block-menu-list-item content-block-menu-item-initial\"><a href=\"\/academics\/faculty-senate\/senators-officers-committees\" class=\"content-block-menu-list-link\">Senators, Officers, and Committees<\/a><\/li><li class=\"content-block-menu-list-item content-block-menu-item-initial\"><a href=\"\/academics\/faculty-senate\/meetings-office-hours\" class=\"content-block-menu-list-link\">Meeting Schedule &amp; Open Forum<\/a><\/li><li class=\"content-block-menu-list-item content-block-menu-item-initial\"><a href=\"\/academics\/faculty-senate\/constitution-bylaws-handbook\" class=\"content-block-menu-list-link\">Constitution and Bylaws &amp; Faculty Handbook<\/a><\/li><li class=\"content-block-menu-list-item content-block-menu-item-initial\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.butler.edu\/academics\/faculty-senate\/freedom-of-expression\/\" class=\"content-block-menu-list-link\">Freedom of Expression and Inclusion Statement<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/div><\/nav>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<div class=\"content-block-content-container is-layout-constrained\">\n\t\t\t\t\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-faculty-senate\">Faculty Senate<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Historically, faculty governance at Butler University&nbsp;ensued through an assembly model that existed from 1978 to 2008.&nbsp;In 2008, the Faculty Senate began as a new structure for faculty governance, based on an elected representative model.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">According to the Constitution of the Faculty Senate: &#8220;The faculty is the professional body of the University primarily responsible for educational policies, faculty productivity, curriculum, and instructional practices. The Faculty Senate is the forum and deliberative body for the expression of the faculty&#8217;s recommendations regarding these matters. Faculty Senate also has interests in the economic welfare of the institution and in protecting the rights and interests of the faculty&#8221; (Article II, Section 1).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Faculty Senate is composed of elected representatives from each of the colleges and the library.&nbsp;Officers of Faculty Senate include the Chair, Vice-Chair, and Parliamentarian.&nbsp;Four Faculty Senate committees exist: Academic and Student Affairs, Curriculum, Faculty Affairs, and Professional Appeals.<\/p>\n\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t<\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n\n\n<section class=\"footer-contact has-no-social-links wp-block-butler-footer-contact\">\n\t<div class=\"footer-contact-wrapper\">\n\t\t<div class=\"footer-contact-content\">\n\t\t\t<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading footer-contact-headline has-xx-large-font-size\">Faculty Senate<\/h2><div class=\"wp-block-columns are-vertically-aligned-top footer-contact-columns is-layout-flex 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