Section 8.1. DEFINITION OF FACULTY RANK.

The presidents, vice presidents, deans, associate and assistant deans, the business managers and all persons who are employed full-time on an annual salary basis in titles on the permanent instructional staff, except college laboratory technicians, shall have faculty rank. All persons having faculty rank shall have the right to vote both in the faculty of which they are members and in their respective departments provided, however, that they have not received notice of non-reappointment, or submitted a resignation. A person with faculty rank who is retiring shall retain his/her voting rights during his/her last year of service. Members with faculty rank in the Hunter College High School and the Hunter College Elementary School shall be subject to the limitations in section 8.3. which refer to them.

Section 8.2. DEFINITION OF FACULTY STATUS.

Persons employed in the titles of instructor or lecturer (full-time) who have been reappointed on an annual salary basis for a third or later year of continuous full-time service shall have faculty status. All persons having faculty status shall have such voting rights as they are entitled, provided, however, that they have not received notice of non-reappointment, or submitted a resignation. A person with faculty status who is retiring shall retain his/her voting rights during his/her last year of service.

Section 8.3. THE FACULTY, EXCEPT IN THE CITY COLLEGE AND THE GRADUATE SCHOOL AND UNIVERSITY CENTER.

The faculty (except in the City College and the Graduate School and University Center) shall consist of all persons having faculty rank or faculty status and such other individual members of the instructional staff as the faculty may add because of their educational responsibilities except that members with faculty rank in the Hunter College High School and the Hunter College Elementary School shall have membership in the faculties of their respective schools, and shall have membership in the faculty of hunter college only if they have faculty rank or status concurrently in the faculty of hunter college.

Section 8.4. THE FACULTIES OF THE CONSTITUENT SCHOOLS OF THE CITY COLLEGE.

The membership of the faculties of the respective schools of the City College shall be constituted as follows:

1. The faculty of the SCHOOL OF ENGINEERING shall include the president, the vice president, the dean of the school, the dean of graduate studies of the school, the dean of administration, the dean of students, the dean of the school of general studies, the chairperson of the library department, the registrar, the business manager, and the members of the professional departments who have faculty rank, and in addition, two representatives each of the departments of chemistry, mathematics, and physics, and one representative of each of the other departments upon which the school of engineering draws in its curriculum excepting that the president may, upon the recommendation of the dean of the school of engineering, withdraw representation from any such department because of the limited participation of that department in the work of the school. Upon the recommendation of the dean of the school, the president shall also have the power to enlarge the representation of any such department because of its participation in the special instruction of the school and to withdraw such additional representation. Subject to the right of the president to withdraw departmental representation as stated above, representatives elected by departments shall have faculty rank and shall be elected by the members of faculty rank in each department and shall serve for staggered three-year terms, following the initial term of office to which they were elected.

2. The faculty of the SCHOOL OF EDUCATION shall include the president, the vice president, the dean of the school, the dean of graduate studies of the school, the dean of administration, the dean of students, the dean of the school of general studies, the chairperson of the library department, the registrar, the business manager and the members of the professional departments who have faculty rank, and one representative of faculty rank of each department in other schools of the college upon which the school of education draws for its curriculum excepting that the president may, upon the recommendation of the dean of the school of education, withdraw representation from any such department because of the limited participation of that department in the work of the school. Upon recommendation of the dean of the school, the president shall also have the power to enlarge the representation of any such department because of its participation in the special instruction of the school and to withdraw such additional representation. Subject to the right of the president to withdraw departmental representation as stated above, representatives elected by departments shall be elected by the members of faculty rank in each department and shall serve for staggered three-year terms, following the initial term of office to which they were elected.

3. The faculty of the SCHOOL OF ARCHITECTURE shall include the president, the vice president, the dean of the school, the dean of administration, the dean of students, the chairperson of the library department, the registrar, the business manager, and the members of the professional departments who have faculty rank, and one representative of faculty rank of each department in other schools of the college upon which the school of architecture draws for its curriculum excepting that the president may, upon the recommendation of the dean of the school of architecture, withdraw representation from any such department because of the limited participation of that department in the work of the school. Upon the recommendation of the dean of the school the president shall also have the power to enlarge the representation of any such department because of its participation in the special instruction of the school and to withdraw such additional representation. Subject to the right of the president to withdraw departmental representation as stated above, representatives elected by departments shall be elected by the members of faculty rank in each department and shall serve for staggered three-year terms, following the initial term of office to which they were elected in nineteen hundred sixty-nine.

4. The faculty of the SCHOOL OF NURSING shall include the president, the vice president, the dean of the school, the dean of administration, the dean of students, the chairperson of the library department, the registrar, the business manager, and the members of the professional departments who have faculty rank, and one representative of faculty rank of each department in other schools of the college upon which the school of nursing draws for its curriculum excepting that the president may, upon the recommendation of the dean of the school of nursing, withdraw representation from any such department because of the limited participation of that department in the work of the school. Upon the recommendation of the dean of the school the president shall also have the power to enlarge the representation of any such department because of its participation in the special instruction of the school and to withdraw such additional representation. Subject to the right of the president to withdraw departmental representation as stated above, representatives elected by departments shall be elected by the members of faculty rank in each department and shall serve for staggered three-year terms, following the initial term of office to which they were elected in nineteen hundred sixty-nine.

5. The faculty of the COLLEGE OF LIBERAL ARTS AND SCIENCE shall include the president, the vice president, the dean of the school, the dean of graduate studies of the school, the dean of administration, the dean of students, the dean of the school of general studies, the chairperson of the library department, the registrar, the business manager, and the members of the academic departments, including the library and student personnel services departments, who have faculty rank.

6. The faculties of the several schools shall have the power to add other individual members of the staff to the membership of their respective faculties because of their educational responsibilities.

Section 8.5. THE FACULTY OF THE GRADUATE SCHOOL AND UNIVERSITY CENTER.

The faculty of the Graduate School and University Center shall include the president of the Graduate School and University Center, the provost, vice presidents and deans of the Graduate School and University Center, and the members of the faculty in each doctoral program, as defined in the governance plan, and such other individual members of the instructional staff as the faculty may add because of their educational responsibilities.

Section 8.6. DUTIES OF FACULTY.

The faculty shall meet at least once in each semester, or oftener, upon call by the president, or by petition of ten per cent of its members. The faculty shall be responsible, subject to guidelines, if any, as established by the board, for the formulation of policy relating to the admission and retention of students including health and scholarship standards therefor, student attendance including leaves of absence, curriculum, awarding of college credit, granting of degrees. It shall make its own bylaws, consistent with these bylaws, and conduct the educational affairs customarily cared for by a college faculty. The president shall preside at its meetings, or in his/her absence, the dean of faculty or a dean designated by the president.

Section 8.7. FACULTY COUNCILS, EXCEPT IN THE GRADUATE SCHOOL AND UNIVERSITY CENTER.

1. In every college or school of a college, except in the Graduate School and University Center, in which the faculty shall exceed one hundred members there shall be a faculty council. The faculty council shall consist of the president, the vice president, deans, the registrar, the business manager, and two delegates from each department where available. One such delegate shall be the department chairperson. The other shall be a person of faculty rank elected by the department. In addition, delegates-at-large, equal to the number of instructional departments, shall be elected. The method of nomination and election of delegates-at-large shall be determined in each college or school by the faculty council provided such delegates-at-large have faculty rank or faculty status. Vacancies shall be filled in the same manner for the unexpired term. Each of the above delegates, except the department chairperson, shall be elected for a three-year term in May of the appropriate year by secret ballot of the members entitled to vote in each department, following the initial term of office to which they were elected.

2. The council shall have all the responsibilities of the faculty, subject only to the right of the faculty, upon its own motion, to reverse any specific vote of the faculty council by a two-thirds vote of those entitled to vote for delegates-at-large to the faculty council at a meeting duly called on notice of the action to be considered.

Section 8.8. FACULTY SENATE OF THE CITY COLLEGE.

1. In the City College, in addition to the several faculties and the faculty council of the college of liberal arts and science, there shall be a faculty senate composed of the president, the vice president, all full deans, ex officiis, without vote, and both senior and junior senators. Senior senators shall be persons holding faculty rank, elected by vote of all the members of the instructional staff who hold such rank. Junior senators shall be persons holding teaching appointments who do not have faculty rank, elected by vote of all such persons. The number of senior senators shall annually be determined in accordance with a formula which would yield the following representation if elections were to be made by departments from among their own members, namely: departments having ten or fewer full-time persons of professorial rank, including the chairperson, one senator; departments having eleven to twenty-five such persons, two senators; departments having twenty-six to fifty such persons, three senators; and departments having fifty-one or more such persons, four senators.

   Senior senators elected in the first election shall be divided by lot into three classes with terms expiring June 30th, 1970, 1971 and 1972, respectively, and thereafter successive classes shall be elected in the spring for three-year terms. The junior senators shall be fifteen in number, elected at-large in the spring for annual terms of office. In the first three elections both senior and junior senators shall be elected according to the hare system of proportional representation applied separately to the three divisions of the college of liberal arts and science and to each of the professional schools, but applied collectively to all junior senators without reference to school or division. Vacancies in unexpired terms shall be filled by majority vote of those present and voting at any regularly called meeting of the faculty senate, due notice having been given. The senate shall determine whether to continue the hare system or to use some other method of election for senior of junior senators, or both, as the fourth election or any subsequent annual election approaches. The senate may, by its own action, increase the ex officiis membership at any time.

2. The faculty senate of the City College shall, in respect to matters which affect the City College as a whole, have the same duties and powers as are set forth for the faculties in section 8.6. hereof. Matters affecting the individual school or college only shall remain the responsibility of the respective faculties.

3. The faculty senate shall have power to adopt its own bylaws and procedures which shall not be inconsistent with these bylaws.

Section 8.9. COMMITTEE ON FACULTY PERSONNEL AND BUDGET, EXCEPT IN THE CITY COLLEGE AND THE GRADUATE SCHOOL AND UNIVERSITY CENTER.

1. There shall be in each college, except in the City College and the Graduate School and University Center, a committee on faculty personnel and budget or equivalent committee. The chairperson of this committee shall be the president. The members of the committee shall be a dean designated by the president and the department chairperson.

2. This committee shall receive from the several departments all recommendations for appointments to the instructional staff, reappointments thereto, with or without tenure, and promotions therein, together with compensation; it shall recommend action thereon to the president. If the recommendations are adverse to the person concerned and if he/she considers himself/herself aggrieved within the terms and conditions of an existing collective negotiation agreement, he/she may avail himself/herself of the grievance procedures set forth in said agreement. The committee may also recommend to the president special salary increments. The president shall consider such recommendations in making his/her recommendations on such matters to the board.

3. Within the period prescribed by the chancellor, the president shall prepare the annual tentative budget and submit it to the committee for its recommendations; the committee shall make its recommendations within the period prescribed by the chancellor; the president shall submit to the chancellor, within the period prescribed by the chancellor, such tentative annual budget, together with his/her comments and recommendations. Upon failure of the committee to act upon the budget within the period prescribed by the chancellor, the president shall submit to the chancellor his/her own recommendations, together with a statement of explanation.

Section 8.10. THE REVIEW COMMITTEE ON FACULTY PERSONNEL AND BUDGET IN THE CITY COLLEGE.

1. In the City College there shall be a review committee on faculty personnel and budget. The chairperson of this committee shall be the president of the college. The members of this committee shall be the vice president, the dean of students, and the respective deans of faculty of the college of liberal arts and science, the school of education, the school of engineering, the school of architecture, and the school of nursing. This committee shall exercise the functions assigned in subdivisions "b" and "c" of section 8.10. to the committee on faculty personnel and budget in the other colleges, except that the review committee on faculty personnel and budget shall also receive and consider recommendations from the committees on faculty personnel and budget of the several constituent schools of the City College.

2. The faculty of each school in the City College may establish a committee or committees on faculty personnel and budget. The manner of constituting the several committees and the procedure to be followed by them shall be subject to the approval of the president and the dean of the school concerned. If the recommendations of the review committee on faculty personnel and budget are adverse to the person concerned and if he/she considers himself/herself aggrieved within the terms and conditions of an existing collective negotiation agreement, he/she may avail himself/herself of the grievance procedures set forth in said agreement.

Section 8.11. APPOINTMENTS AND PROMOTIONS IN THE GRADUATE SCHOOL AND UNIVERSITY CENTER.

Appointments financed by the Graduate School and University Center budget shall be recommended to the board of trustees in the following manner:

1. When the line is allocated to one of the colleges, the appointment, reappointment, promotion, and tenure shall be processed in accordance with procedures followed at the respective college and shall require the approval of the president of that college.

2. When the line is allocated to the Graduate School and University Center for a doctoral program, the appointment, reappointment, promotion, and tenure must first be recommended by the appropriate executive committee by a majority vote, and shall require the approval of the president of the Graduate School and University Center.

3. The president, pursuant to his/her responsibility for conserving and enhancing the educational standards of the Graduate School and University Center, may recommend an appointment to any professorial rank and upon such appointment may designate such person as executive officer for the program. Before recommending such original appointment or designation, the president shall confer with members of the program.

Section 8.12. PROCEDURE FOR COLLEGE COMMITTEES ON FACULTY PERSONNEL AND BUDGET; ALL COMMITTEES ON FACULTY PPERSONNEL AND BUDGET IN THE CITY COLLEGE; AND ALL COMMITTEES CONCERNED WITH APPOINTMENTS AND PROMOTIONS IN THE GRADUATE SCHOOL AND UNIVERSITY CENTER.

Each committee concerned with instructional staff appointments, reappointments with tenure, and promotions shall keep minutes of its proceedings conforming insofar as is practicable to Robert's Rules of Order, Revised. The actions of the committee shall be by secret ballot and the results of the balloting shall be duly recorded in its minutes. All records of the proceedings with respect to a candidate shall be filed in the candidate's administration file, available only to the committees and individuals responsible for the review and recommendation of appointments, reappointments, promotions, and tenure. It shall be the duty and responsibility of the president, or his/her designee, to communicate to the candidate the action of the committee but no reason shall be assigned for a negative recommendation. The affirmative recommendation of the committee shall be submitted to the president in accordance with the procedures set forth in the bylaws of the board.

Section 8.13. UNIVERSITY FACULTY SENATE.

There shall be a university faculty senate, responsible, subject to the board, for the formulation of policy relating to the academic status, role, rights, and freedoms of the faculty, university level educational and instructional matters, and research and scholarly activities of university-wide import. The powers and duties of the university faculty senate shall not extend to areas or interests which fall exclusively within the domain of the faculty councils of the constituent units of the university. Consistent with the powers of the board in accordance with the education law and the bylaws of the board, the university faculty senate shall make its own bylaws providing for the election of its own officers, the establishment of its own rules and procedures for the election of senators, for its internal administration and for such other matters as is necessary for its continuing operations.

Section 8.14. COLLEGE GOVERNANCE PLANS.

The provisions in duly adopted college governance plans shall supersede any inconsistent provisions contained in this article.