A.
Definitions
- The
faculty of the University of Colorado Denver (hereinafter
UCD) consists of persons enumerated in Article 5 of the Laws of
the Regents.
- Faculty
government exists and derives its powers from the authority
delegated to it by the Board of Regents. These powers and duties must
be exercised in accordance with the Laws of the Regents, Regent
Policies, and the laws and constitutions of the State of Colorado and
of the United States.
As the
most durable and stable constituency immediately involved with the academic
operation of UCD, the faculty has a special concern and responsibility
for academic freedom.
As provided
in the Laws of the Regents, the faculty shall formulate faculty
governance to effect the principles established under Article I.B, Participation.
Faculty government bodies at UCD include the UCD Faculty, the Faculty
Assembly and its committees, and the faculties of the colleges and schools
of UCD and the Library. Colleges or schools and the Library (hereinafter
colleges/schools/library), as provided in the Laws of the Regents,
may be further divided into departments or divisions.
a. The
UCD faculty consists of all members of the Faculty Senate
of the University of Colorado seated at UCD, including the following
titles for faculty who have fifty-percent or more appointments:
Professor
Senior Instructor Scholar in Residence
Associate Professor Instructor Artist in Residence
Assistant Professor
Adjoint,
Attendant, Clinical, and Research faculty with fifty-percent or more
appointments in the above ranks are also members of the UCD Faculty;
Visiting Professors are not. Ex officio members with the
right to vote are the Chancellor and the Vice Chancellors, all Deans,
and Professors Emeriti and Emeritae. Officers shall not exercise
their rights to vote if they are in a position to act on a recommendation
emanating from that vote. As new faculty titles are created, the Faculty
Assembly shall determine whether such faculty shall be voting members
of the UCD Faculty.
b. The
Faculty Assembly is the representative governing body of
the UCD Faculty and consists of faculty members elected or appointed
as provided in Article III. The standing committees
of Faculty Assembly are those defined in Article III.
From time to time, Faculty Assembly may establish other committees
as it deems appropriate.
c. The
faculties of the colleges/schools/library at UCD are those
established in the Laws of the Regents and defined further by the
rules of the respective college/school/library.
- The
Assembly year shall be from July 1 to June 30, inclusive. The
terms of all elected members of Faculty Assembly and of faculty members
of Assembly committees shall conform to the Assembly year. Terms are
specified in the Bylaws. Election of new members of Faculty Assembly
and of standing committees of Faculty Assembly shall occur in the spring
semester. Election procedures are specified in the Bylaws.
B. Participation of faculty in governance at the University of Colorado Denver
is guided by principles of shared governance as recognized
by the Board of Regents: faculty and administration shall collaborate
in major decisions affecting the welfare of the University. The nature
of that participation, shared as appropriate with administration, students,
and staff, varies according to the nature of the decisions in question.
The faculty takes the lead in decisions about educational policy related
to teaching, curriculum, research, academic ethics, and other academic
matters. The administration takes the lead in matters of internal operations
and external relations of the university. In every case, the faculty and
the administration participate in the governance and operation of the
university as provided by and in accordance with the laws and policies
of the Board of Regents and the laws and regulations of the State of Colorado.
The Chair of Faculty Assembly or the Chair’s designee shall be the
spokesperson for the UCD Faculty when addressing the Board of Regents
on matters of importance to shared governance at the University of Colorado
at Denver.
1. The
faculty shall have the principal responsibility for originating academic
policy and standards, including initial authorization and direction
of all courses, curricula, and degrees offered, admissions criteria,
regulation of student academic conduct and activities, and determination
of candidates for degrees.
2. The
faculty shall have principal responsibility for originating scholastic
policy, including scholastic standards for admission, grading (consistent
with the Uniform Grading Policy of the University), continuation, graduation,
and honors. As required by Article 4 of the Laws of the Regents,
the deans of the colleges/schools shall have responsibility for maintaining
admissions standards and requirements.
3. In
the selection and evaluation of faculty, the faculty shall have the
principal role, subject to the concurrence of the UCD administration
and the ultimate authority of the Board of Regents or its designee(s).
4. In
establishing policies and procedures for faculty appointment, reappointment,
promotion, tenure, and post-tenure review and establishing policies
and procedures for the appeal of decisions in these areas, the faculty
shall collaborate with the UCD administration in the development of
recommendations for submission to the Board of Regents or its designees.
5. In
the selection and evaluation of department chairs and academic administrators
in the colleges/schools/library, the faculty shall collaborate with
the administration in the development of recommendations to the Chancellor
and the Board of Regents or its designee(s).
6. In
establishing and reviewing budget policies and plans for resource allocation,
the faculty shall collaborate with the administration in the development
of recommendations to the Chancellor for submission to the Board of
Regents or its designee(s). This includes review of new academic degree
program proposals, academic program review, and program discontinuance.
7. In
the preparation of budgets, the administration shall have the principal
role, with early collaboration of the appropriate faculty governance
unit(s), subject to the ultimate authority of the Chancellor and the
Board of Regents or its designee(s).
8. In
making other policy about the general academic welfare of UCD, the faculty
shall collaborate with the administration in developing recommendations
to the Chancellor for submission to the Board of Regents or its designee(s).
9. Administrative
changes to policy with respect to matters listed in I.B.1-8 shall be
promulgated only after consultation with appropriate faculty governance
bodies.
10. In Articles II-IV of this constitution, the structure
and function of faculty organization at different levels at UCD are
defined, and other aspects of faculty participation in UCD governance
are specified.
C. Faculty
Governance Service shall be considered in annual merit evaluations
and in other evaluation processes. Differential workloads may be negotiated
by the faculty member and the chair of the appropriate academic unit when
faculty governance roles exceed the time normally expected in accord with
the University’s service mission. The chair of the appropriate governance
unit shall be consulted in determining whether the time and effort normally
expected by the University’s service mission will be exceeded. Appropriate
compensation, within the limits of campus policies, shall be negotiated
for the service of officers and committee chairs in the ongoing business
of faculty governance.
D. Procedures for all faculty governance bodies at UCD shall be as specified in this
Constitution, in the Bylaws of this Constitution, in unit operating procedures,
or, if not so provided, in the latest edition of Robert's Rules of Order.