1. Faculty Executive Committee
   To a great extent the functions of the Faculty Executive Committee are defined by the Faculty Bylaws (Article III, Section 1) and the Plan of Employment for the Faculty (Section VI, A). Faculty members should consult those portions of the Faculty Handbook along with this section.
   
   As stated in Article III, Section 1.B of the Faculty Bylaws:
   
   The Executive Committee will consist of eight members of the Faculty elected by the Faculty. Members of the Executive Committee will serve for three-year staggered terms. Elections will be held before the end of the spring quarter for the following academic year and will be conducted by secret ballot. Each of the divisions will elect one person from that division; the untenured members of the Faculty will elect one of their number; and one person will be elected by the Faculty at-large to serve on the Executive Committee. Members of the committee may be reelected for a second consecutive term but not for a third. The Executive Committee is elected to represent the interests of the Faculty as a whole.
   
   As stated in Article III, Section 1.C of the Faculty Bylaws, “The Executive Committee will elect annually a chair and a vice chair and appoint a secretary.” In practice a secretary is appointed for each meeting. The secretary distributes minutes at the following meeting, and after correction and approval at the following meeting, the minutes are posted on the Faculty Executive Committee website.
   
2. Faculty Committees
   
   As stated in Article III, Section 1.A of the Faculty Bylaws, the Executive Committee “will establish certain standing committees and determine their Faculty composition.” Those committees are the following:
   
   Academic Standards Committee
   Admission and Retention Committee
   Athletics Advisory Committee
   Educational Policies Committee
   Experiential Education Committee
   Faculty Development Committee
   Justice, Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion Committee
   Planning, Budget and Compensation Committee
   Student Life Advisory Committee
   Teaching and Learning Committee
   
   To staff these committees the Executive Committee through the Provost’s Office distributes a standing committee preference form to all faculty members at the beginning of the spring quarter. On the basis of the responses the Executive Committee begins assigning faculty colleagues to committees in the later half of the spring quarter and concludes this work by the end of that term. A preliminary list is distributed at that time. Adjustments to memberships are made early in the fall quarter of the following academic year after which a final list for the academic year is produced.
   
3. Additional Executive Committee Duties
   
   According to Article III, Section 1.A of the Faculty Bylaws, the Faculty Executive Committee also has the following responsibilities:
   
   Create any special committees it may deem appropriate for special tasks.
   
   Appoint members of the Faculty to standing and special committees.
   
   Nominate candidates for election to the Faculty Personnel Committee in consultation with that body.
   
   Nominate candidates for election as Faculty representatives for President and Provost search committees upon request from the Administration.
   
   Nominate candidates for election as College representatives for the Great Lakes College Association.
   
   Further, as stated in Section VI.A the Plan of Employment of the Faculty, “At the beginning of each year the Faculty Executive Committee shall appoint a Hearing Committee composed of a minimum of seven tenured faculty with the rank of Professor. It shall also designate one of the seven to chair the Committee.”
   
   In 2006 the Executive Committee produced a general statement – Faculty Service on Elected, Standing, and Special Committees: A Statement of Principles from the Faculty Executive Committee – that provides detailed guidelines on faculty committee function with regard to responsibilities of and protections for faculty members; administrator and student membership; general committee operation; and committee chair duties. This statement appears later in the Faculty Handbook.
   
4. Faculty Elections and Voting at Faculty Meetings
   
   In bringing slates of candidates before the faculty for election, the Executive Committee’s practice has been to recommend which members of the faculty should be eligible to vote. For example, the Executive Committee suggests that only those faculty members subject to evaluation by the Faculty Personnel Committee should participate in elections for Personnel Committee membership.
   
   See Article II, Section 8 of the Faculty Bylaws for information on elections.

1998
Revised October 2021