c. Exercise academic freedom as set forth in the 1940 Statement of Principles on Academic Freedom and Tenure with 1970 Interpretive Comments, (American Association of University Professors (AAUP), & Association of American Colleges, now the Association of American Colleges and Universities (AAC&U)), and the CBA.
d. Access to their official files, in accordance with the CBA.
e. Access (according to appropriate work assignment) to accurate budgetary, enrollment, retention, and alumni data for reasons of recruitment, retention, fundraising, budgeting and unit governance.
2. College Budget Committees
a. Faculty have a right to participate in budget decisions at department, college, and university levels, through the Faculty Senate Budget and Planning Committee (BPC), representatives on university budget committees and sub-committees, and representatives on college or unit budget committees (see Appendix C). b. The joint AAUP/ACE/AGB “Statement on Government of Colleges and Universities” (1966) refers outlinesto basic university shared governance principles. It makes clear that the BOT, administration, and faculty should “have a voice in the determination of short- and long-range priorities, and each should receive appropriate analyses of past budgetary experience, reports on current budgets and expenditures, and short- and long-range budgetary projections.” All participants in the budget process have the right to sufficient information to be able to carry out their responsibilities. c. All faculty involved in the budget process have the right to speak on issues pertaining to the faculty member’s responsibilities as a participant in that process. The protections in II.A.1(a) apply to faculty members involved in the budget process at all levels.
B. Faculty Responsibilities
3. Principal Areas of Collective Faculty Responsibility
4. Collectively, the faculty has principal responsibility for academic policies and academic standards for such fundamental areas as curriculum, subject matter and methods of instruction, research, faculty status (as defined in the CBA), and those aspects of student life which relate to the educational process. Principal responsibility means that faculty, through the Senate and its committees, make decisions in consultation with the Provost, deans, and other administrators, subject to the approval of the President and the BOT. These areas include 3.a.
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a.i. curriculum, including program revision, criteria for addition and deletion of courses, and standards for granting degrees;
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