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The University of Colorado: Faculty defines the Faculty Senate under 5.A.2: Faculty Government:

5.A.2 Faculty Government

(A) The faculty shall form a Faculty Senate for the purpose of faculty participation in shared governance and other activities deemed important by the faculty.

(1) The university president shall be the president of the Faculty Senate.

(2)Faculty Senate membership shall be defined in the Faculty Senate constitution. Voting membership shall include those members who have a faculty appointment of 0.5 FTE or greater.

(B) The Faculty Senate constitution shall provide a system for participation of faculty in the governance of the university.

(C) On specific matters of shared governance, the Faculty Senate shall assign a spokesperson to address the Board of Regents.

(D) Consistent with the governance responsibilities articulated in regent policy 4.A, each school/college/library shall have a faculty governance body. The structure and operating rules shall be determined by the school/college/library faculty.

The defines membership under and titles are more clearly outlined in  .  Faculty senate members now include all faculty with .5% appointments and greater with titles listed below:

• Tenure and Tenure-Track Faculty (Assistant, Associate, Full, and Distinguished Professor)
• Instructional, Research, and Clinical Faculty (IRC) for the following titles only:
  • Teaching Professors (Assistant Teaching Professor, Associate Teaching Professor and Full Teaching Professor)*
  • Research Professor (Assistant Research Professor, Associate Research Professor, Full Research Professor)**
  • Clinical Teaching Professor (Assistant Clinical Professor, Associate Clinical Professor, and Full Clinical Professor)
  • Scholar in Residence & Artist in Residence

The Boulder Faculty Assembly meetings are open to the public and welcomes all campus instructional, research, and clinical (IRC) faculty to attend. 

Additional Notes:

• Â鶹Ãâ·Ñ°æÏÂÔØBoulder holds an additional Teaching Professor of Distinction title which is also included
• Only the above research faculty titles are part of the faculty senate. Campus HR and RIO manage personnel and contract issues for other research faculty. Research faculty hired through HR are represented in shared governance at the Boulder campus with Staff Council.
• The Office of Faculty Affairs manages contracts and personnel issues for the faculty senate.
• The Lecturer series is under review by Academic Affairs. This series defined as temporary faculty by Â鶹Ãâ·Ñ°æÏÂÔØSystem. Academic Affairs expects to have more information on these titles and related issues by the end of spring 2025.