Motion passed as amended

The Senate Governance Committee asks the Senate to approve the 2024-2025 Faculty Senate Handbook.

The Governance Committee submits the Charge for the University Senate Budget Committee for comments, changes, and approval to the full Senate. 

The current policy can be found here: https://policies.uni.edu/421
In certain extenuating circumstances, the behavior of individuals with emeritus/a status may be detrimental to the university.
The faculty, in particular the faculty senate, determine whether a faculty member should earn emeritus/a status.
There is currently no means for revoking such status within the policy.

While the current efficiency study is focused on academic programs, procurement, IT and human resources, among other areas, there are many aspects of the University which perhaps should be examined with regards to expenditures from the General Fund. Some form of cost-benefit analysis should be perfomed on non academic units outside the scope of the current efficiency study.

There has been a general problem with the dissemination of information at UNI in the past. This situation has been improving in general. To further increase transparency, the senate should disseminate information to the faculty in general beyond a posting of the minutes. 

Whereas it has become clear that, in addition to making changes to the curriculum, UNI faculty must also manage the curriculum to insure that it is current and makes effective use of scarce academic resources,

Whereas an ad-hoc committee to recommend changes in curricular policies and the handbook to insure faculty control, hereinafter termed the Curriculum Management Committee (CMC), was established by the Faculty Senate in August 2012;and whereas the CMC has consulted with College senates, the University Curriculum Committee (UCC), the Graduate College Curriculum Committee (GCCC), and other relevant bodies;and whereas the CMC has considered AAUP statements and principles as well as other "best practices" in developing its recommendations;

Whereas the critical role of the faculty in the University, including its acknowledged responsibility for the curriculum, necessitates substantive faculty participation in planning and budgeting activities at all levels of the University;

At the Dec. 8, 2014 Faculty Senate meeting, the Faculty Senate sent the Honorary Degree Policy change draft back to the Honorary Degree Committee for revisions made related to the membership of the committee and criteria for selection.  These changes were made and approved by the Honorary Degree Committee, and the policy put into the current format for university policies.  It is now coming back to the Faculty Senate for its recommendation.