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BOARD OF TRUSTEES

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II. LEGISLATIVE ORGANIZATION

UN/VERSfTY SENATES

Sec. 6. ( a ) A Senate is constituted at each campus of the University to be known, respectively, as the Urbana-Champaign Senate, the Chicago Professional Colleges Senate, and the Chicago Undergraduate Division Senate. (b) Each Senate shall consist of the full professors, the deans of colleges, the directors or deans of schools and institutes, and the heads and chairmen of departments (or persons acting in the foregoing positions) at the campus represented by that Senate; and, on the recommendation of the Committee on Educational Policy of that Senate, of persons of other academic rank or administrative status, as each Senate may determine by resolution, In no case, however, shall any person, irrespective of academic rank or administrative status, be a member of a Senate, or eligible for membership, unless he holds at least a half-time appointment and receives salary from the University for such services, as specified in his contract. At the Chicago Undergraduate Division the associate deans and directors shall be members of its Senate. Senate members of the teaching and research staffs shall, upon retirement, be entitled to the privileges of the floor at all meetings of their Senate. Membership on any standing committee of a Senate is open to the general faculty, and carries with it the privileges of the floor of the Senate, including that of voting, so long as such membership continues. (c) The President, the Vice-President and Provost, the Vice-President and Comptroller, the Legal Counsel, the Dean of Admissions, the VicePresident in Charge of the Chicago Professional Colleges, and the Executive Dean of the Chicago Undergraduate Division are ex officio members of each of the Senates. The President shall be the presiding officer of each Senate, but, in his absence or inability to preside, this function shall be exercised in the Urbana-Champaign Senate by the Vice-President and Provost, in the Chicago Professional Colleges Senate by the Vice-President in Charge, and in the Chicago Undergraduate Division Senate by its Executive Dean. Each ex officio member may designate a representative to act in his behalf at am Senate meeting. (d) Each Senate shall elect a secretary from among its members to serve during its pleasure. (e) Each Senate may exercise legislative functions in matters of educational policy affecting the University as a whole or its own campus only; but no such Senate action shall take effect until submitted to the Senate Coordinating Council and approved by the Board of Trustees as provided in Section 7. (f) Each Senate shall hold at least four regular meetings during the academic year on dates it shall determine. Special meetings of any Senate may be called at any time by the President. In addition, special meetings o f the Chicago Professional Colleges Senate may also be called at any time b y the Vice-President in Charge, and of the Chicago Undergraduate Division Senate by the Executive Dean. A special meeting of any Senate shall also be convened upon petition of twenty per cent of the membership of that Senate or twenty-five members, whichever is the smaller number, delivered to the Secretary of that Senate, such meeting to occur not later than ten calendar days after receipt of the petition by the Secretary, unless the petition designates a later date, which shall be the date of the special meeting.