Minutes of a Regular Meeting, June 22-23, 2004 - Digital Collections

REGENTS’ POLICY MANUALSECTION 2—ACADEMICSARTICLE IIIMEMBERSSection 1. Members.The membership of the Regular Faculty of the Health Sciences Center shall be composed of allfull-time faculty members with the unmodified rank of assistant professor or above who holdtenure-track, tenured, or consecutive term appointments. The Regular Faculty does not includeindividuals holding temporary appointments such as instructor, lecturer, or associate; or withmodified ranks such as visiting, adjunct, special, acting, and/or clinical, or holding temporaryresearch appointments such as assistant professor of research or higher.Section 2. Voting Rights.All members, with the unmodified rank of assistant professor above and who hold tenure-track,tenured or consecutive term appointments shall have full voting rights.Section 3. Proxy.No votes shall be cast by proxy.ARTICLE IVPOWERSSection 1. Governance Powers.The governance of the faculty of the Health Sciences Center is vested in the Regular Facultyof the Health Sciences Center, subject to the provisions of Article III, section 1 above.Section 2. Exercise of Powers.These governance powers shall be exercised either by the Regular Faculty or by the FacultySenate (see Article VII, section 5).Section 3. Accountability of Senate.The Faculty Senate shall be subject to the orders of the Regular Faculty, and none of theSenate’s acts shall conflict with actions taken by the Regular Faculty.ARTICLE VOFFICERSSection 1. Officers.The Officers of the Regular Faculty shall be the Officers of the Faculty Senate: Chair, Chair-Elect, Secretary, and Secretary-Elect. These officers shall perform the duties prescribed by thisCharter and by the parliamentary authority adopted by the Regular Faculty and any otheractivities necessary to achieve the purposes of the Regular Faculty of the Health Sciences Center.THE UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA 159