b. The AAUP Statement on Government of Colleges and Universities (1966) refers to shared governance 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 1. Principal Areas of Collective Faculty Responsibility 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 a. curriculum, including program revision, criteria for addition and deletion of courses, and standards for granting degrees; b. subject matter and methods of instruction, including education policies, assessment of student learning, and grading standards; c. governance of the General Education Program at the university; d. scholarship, including research and creative activity, freedom of scholarly inquiry and standards for evaluation of faculty scholarship; e. implementation of CBA processes, including development of substantive content regarding faculty status, including faculty ethics, peer review in hiring, tenure, promotion, post-tenure review, and merit; f. those aspects of student life that relate to the academic experience, including student academic ethics and academic co-curricular policies; g. criteria for admissions to undergraduate matters; h. criteria for admissions to graduate programs and selection of graduate students; i. participation in accreditation and assessment. 2. Areas of Individual Faculty Responsibility In addition to the collective responsibilities listed above, each faculty member has the responsibility to: a. fulfill assigned teaching duties, student advising, and other instructional activities benefiting students’ academic development; b. follow policies and guidelines served from those policies by the university, college, and department; c. perform professional activity for continual updating of course content to reflect current development in the faculty member’s academic field; d. uphold standards of professional ethics outlined in the AAUP Statement on Professional Ethics (see Appendix A of this Code) and the CBA;
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