Common use of FACULTY ORGANIZATION ROLE AND OPERATING STRUCTURE Clause in Contracts

FACULTY ORGANIZATION ROLE AND OPERATING STRUCTURE. A. Faculty Organization Role The Faculty Organization shall be a deliberative body with powers to initiate, approve, amend, or reject recommendations relative to academic policy. All academic policy recommendations shall be vested in the Faculty Organization, subject to limitations stipulated in Article I.D. addressing the authority of the Board of Trustees and Article VII addressing the authority of the HFCC-FT Collective Bargaining Agent. Any action of the Academic Council, the Coordinating Council, or the Operations Council (herein referred to as the “Councils”) and other College committees and groups relative to academic policy shall be subject to approval by the Faculty Senate and the Faculty Organization, which shall have the authority of approving and forwarding all academic policy recommendations to the President.