Resolution on Inclusion of the Faculty Councils in the RU Policy Libary

RATIONALE

The four Faculty Councils: Camden, Newark, New Brunswick, and RBHS, form an important part of shared governance at Rutgers University:

• Each Faculty Council is the principal officially-designated faculty body from which the given Chancellor seeks and receives advice and recommendations on matters of concern to the faculty.
• Since the Senate, the principal shared governance body on the presidential level, includes student, staff, and administrative representatives, in addition to faculty, the Faculty Councils are the highest-level elected faculty-only governance bodies in the University. As such, the Councils can provide unique faculty perspectives on issues of interest to the Rutgers community.
• The Faculty Councils work cooperatively with the University Senate. Council Chairs or their designees serve as liaisons to the Senate and report on Council activities at Senate meetings. A number of Faculty Council members are also very active members of the Senate. Individual Faculty Councils may refer issues of University-wide interest to the Senate for consideration while the Senate may refer issues of more local interest to the appropriate Faculty Council.

Given the importance of the Faculty Councils to shared governance at Rutgers, the New Brunswick Faculty Council argues that the existence and roles of the four Faculty Councils should be recognized by the Rutgers Central Administration and Board of Governors via inclusion in the University Policy Library.

Resolution

Therefore, be it resolved that the New Brunswick Faculty Council, along with the RBHS Faculty Council, the Newark Faculty Council, and the Camden Faculty Council, supports the addition of the attached subsection to section 50 of the Rutgers Policy Library.