II. ORGANIZATION

The voting membership of the Academic Congress is composed of the regular faculty, health professions faculty, Facility for Rare Isotope Beams/National Superconducting Cyclotron faculty, full-time fixed term faculty who have served at least three consecutive years, and the president and the provost. Honorary faculty (visiting professors and emeriti professors) are members with voice but without vote. 

 

The Academic Congress serves as a forum for dissemination and exchange of ideas and information between the faculty and the administration. The Academic Congress meets by call of the president or by majority vote of the faculty members of the Steering Committee. The Academic Congress must be called into session to consider specific referred items upopn petition by at least 20% of the voting members of Academic Congress, or by at least 50% plus one of the University Council or Faculty Senate, or by at least 50% plus one of the voting members at an official meeting of the Academic Congress at which a quorum is present. The agenda for Academic Congress meetings is prepared by the faculty members of the Steering Committee in consultation with the president and the provost.

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