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SECTION III.

PROCEDURES FOR CONDUCTING LANDER UNIVERSITY FACULTY MEETINGS

MEETINGS OF THE FACULTY:

A.     There will be two types of regularly scheduled faculty meetings. Business meetings of the faculty will be held once at the beginning of the fall semester and twice at the end of the spring semester (normally once in March and once in April). Faculty members are expected to attend the scheduled business meetings of the faculty. The agenda will normally include the following order of business: Call to Order; Approval of Minutes; Old Business; New Business; Reports; Announcements; and Adjournment. Any new or old business that entails nominations or voting should be moved ahead of business that does not.

 

Informational meetings of the faculty will be held monthly during the academic year and will not normally by held during the months that the business meetings are held. Attendance at the informational meetings is optional. The agenda will normally include the following order of business: Call to Order; Approval of Minutes; Reports; Announcements; and Adjournment.

 

The President or his designee serves as the presiding officer at all faculty meetings. The President or the Faculty Senate may call a special meeting of the faculty or may change an informational meeting to a business meeting. A special meeting may also be called by at least ten percent of the full-time faculty who submit a written request to that effect to the President. The faculty, in its meetings, is organized as a committee as a whole and follows the procedures established in Robert's Rules of Order.

 

B.     A quorum shall consist of a majority of those persons identified in the Lander University Faculty Senate Constitution as voting faculty members. Only such persons are eligible to vote at faculty meetings. Other persons may be permitted the privilege of the floor, unless the faculty by majority vote should withdraw the privilege.

 

C.     Faculty members with bona fide reasons who must be absent from faculty meetings at which a scheduled vote will be taken may obtain an absentee ballot from the Elections Committee, mark it, and return the ballot to the committee for submission at the time of voting. Determination of what constitutes a bona fide reason will be made by the Elections Committee.

 

D.  The voting faculty shall consider recommendations from the Faculty Senate, and shall vote without amendment to ratify, to reject, or to remand to the Senate such recommendations. The motion to remand a proposal to the Faculty Senate must include a brief statement of the reason for which remanding is proposed. It will require a second and shall not be debatable.