Constitution and Bylaws Information

Proposal to Create a Single University Senate
For the past four years, the senates of the different ASU campuses have contemplated creating one University Senate that can more effectively share in the governance of the University with the administration. Such a creation requires extensive amendments to the Constitution and Bylaws of the Academic Assembly. A proposal for those changes was submitted to the campus senates on Monday, February 18, 2008, and approved as amended without dissent in all senates on March 17. These proposed changes must now be approved by the Academic Assemblies of all campuses. Prior to that balloting in the last part of April, there will be open meetings on each campus to discuss any issues arising from the proposal. You may check back to this site for dates, times, and locations of these meetings.

• Current Constitution and Bylaws Link
• Mark-up Proposal with Approved Amendments (pdf file)

Frequently Asked Questions about the Proposal
This link answers questions about the proposal. If you have concerns or questions about any of the proposed changes or, for that matter, about items that were not changed, please submit your questions to George Watson at g.watson@asu.edu. You may leave a phone message at (480) 965-2031.

Campus Meetings to Discuss Proposal

Downtown	April 15	Noon to 1:30	PURL Center
Polytechnic	April 15	2:00 pm	Agribusiness Center 115
Tempe	April 15	3:00 pm	Murdock Hall 101
West	April 21	3:00 pm	La Sala B

Omnibus Amendment of Perfecting Language
In a document this lengthy with so many changes, there will inevitably be errors, typos, and relatively minor issues with which to deal. This Omnibus amendment corrected those items that were detected. It was passed by the Senate and the corrections are now reflected in the Mark-up Proposal with Approved Amendments.

Substantive Amendments to the Proposal
Seven substantive amendments were proposed to the constitution and bylaws, four were approved and three were defeated.

1. transmitting Senate actions to the university president and others [approved]
2. clarifies CAPC membership, adds responsibilities, and modifies relationships [approved]
3. clarifies policies and procedures followed by grievance committees [approved]
4. makes the vice president and dean of each campus a voting member of the Senate [rejected]
5. makes the university vice presidents ex officio nonvoting members of the Senate [rejected]
6. reduces from 40 to 30 the number of Assembly members required for a second unit senator [rejected]
7. rewrites Article III on amending the constitution and bylaws, separating the two processes [approved]

QUICK LINKS
Arizona Board of Regents
Arizona State Legislature
ASU Provost's Office
ASU Policies & Procedures Manual
Arizona Faculties Council


DISCUSS
Academic Council
The University Academic Council is the elected Assembly leadership from the different campuses. The Council blog presents issues confronting the Academic Assembly and University Senate. We welcome your participation and comments.

PRESIDENT CROW
“The president's post” is Michael Crow's blog. Comments are welcome.

ASU Policy 111-01 & 203-01

At least half of the members of the search committee (for faculty or chair) shall be elected by the members of the academic unit; remaining members of the search committee may be appointed by the hiring officer. Alternatively, the search committee may be constituted by other democratic processes defined by the unit’s or the college’s bylaws.

Faculty have a duty to share the responsibilities and obligations of governance and administration of the university, (among others:)

1. approval of course content and manner of instruction
2. establishment of requirements for matriculation and degrees
3. appointment and promotion of faculty
4. selection of chairs of departments and certain academic administrators
5. policies and procedures governing salary increases
6. the forms of faculty governance at the department, college, and university levels.