1: The Faculty meeting is the principal instrument by which the Faculty discharges its responsibility for ruling on curriculum and educational policy, Faculty status, aspects of student life which relate to the educational process, and all other matters that fall under the duties and prerogatives of the Faculty. The Faculty meeting is also the principal instrument for formulating Faculty recommendations to the Administration and the Trustees. Resolutions adopted by the Faculty meeting are statements of Faculty policy which bind Faculty committees and which serve to express the will of the Faculty to the Administration and Trustees. (Passed March 17, 1987) The final authority on the interpretation of resolutions adopted by the Faculty and of the Faculty Manual is the Faculty itself, and only when meeting according to the Rules of this Section of the Manual, whether in a "stated" or a "special" meeting. (Passed December 7, 1999)

2: Faculty meetings shall be designated stated or special. (Passed October 13, 1970)

3: Meetings will be conducted in accordance with Robert's Rules of Procedure. (Passed October 13, 1970) The rules contained in the current edition of Roberts’ Rules of Order newly revised shall govern meetings of the Faculty in all cases to which they are applicable and in which they are not inconsistent with the Faculty Manual and any special rules of order the Faculty may adopt. (Passed February 12, 2002)

3.1: A quorum shall consist of fifty Faculty members with voting rights (Passed December 6, 1994)

3.2: Two classes of resolutions pose particularly serious issues and therefore require for their approval the affirmative vote of at least three-fifths of the voting members in attendance. These are (1) motions calling for the creation or elimination of departments or programs, or for changes in the overall size of the Faculty, and (2) motions calling for changes in policies or procedures for appointments and promotions. Normally a motion calling for a change in the size of the Faculty will be considered out of order unless a motion passed at an earlier Faculty meeting has authorized the Educational Policy Committee to inquire formally into the issues that give rise to the motion. In exceptional circumstances, the Faculty may waive this proviso at the request of EPC, but only if it is an increase in Faculty size that is contemplated. (Passed March 17, 1987; Amended April 11, 1995)

3.3: At the beginning of each regularly scheduled Faculty meeting, following the approval of minutes, any old business will be taken up, followed by an inquiry of the Chairs of each standing committee as to whether the committee has a report to present. (Passed March 17, 1987)

3.4: A quorum shall be assumed to exist, unless the presider determines otherwise. A challenge to the existence of a quorum is privileged, and, upon such a challenge, the presider shall immediately determine whether a quorum exists. Votes taken under the assumption of a quorum may not be challenged at a later meeting on grounds that no quorum was present at the time of the vote. (Passed February 7, 1995)

4: Any motion presented to the faculty that would alter the text of the faculty manual must be worded exactly as it would appear in the faculty manual, must specify precisely which parts of the faculty manual would be changed if the faculty approved the motion, and must include a date on which the changes would become effective. (Passed December 4, 1990; Amended February 14, 2006)

5: A parliamentarian will be appointed annually by the Committee on Committees. (Passed October 13, 1970)

6: Time and place of stated meetings will be established for the academic year at the beginning of the Fall semester and published. (Passed October 13, 1970)

7: Special meetings may be called by the President and will be called by the Secretary of the Faculty upon receipt of the written petition of one-third of the Faculty. (Passed October 13, 1970)

8: Business at special meetings will be confined to the specific business for which they are called and regular business will not be considered. (Passed October 13, 1978)

9: Committee reports, other than those of a routine nature, should be prepared and distributed seven days before the stated meeting. Routine reports shall be laid before the meeting and passed without debate unless there is objection. (Passed October 13, 1978)

9.1: Every standing committee of the Faculty shall be obliged to report at a Faculty meeting, even if only briefly, at least once each term. For the Spring term, this requirement may be fulfilled by the summary of the committee's annual report. (Passed March 17, 1987)

9.2: Each standing committee of the Faculty shall submit an annual written report of its activities to the Faculty Secretary no later than the end of April. The Chair or another representative of each standing committee shall present a summary of the committee's annual report at the stated May Faculty meeting. (Passed March 17, 1987)

10: Members other than the proposer and seconder of a motion may rise only once to speak to a particular motion, or part thereof, with the exceptions and qualifications found in Robert's Rules. However, the meeting may resolve itself into a Committee of the Whole in which event restrictions on debate will not apply. (Passed October 13, 1978)

11: No new business may be directed to the Faculty for action in the meeting at which it is presented except by a two-thirds vote of those present. It should instead be referred to the appropriate committee for consideration. The committee shall report to the Faculty by the next stated meeting. (Passed October 13, 1970)

12: It shall be a standing rule of the Faculty that all Faculty Meetings shall adjourn after one hour and fifteen minutes, unless the Faculty shall vote by a majority of those present to suspend this rule for a stated period. (Passed October 14, 1969)

13: The Faculty shall invite the Dean of the Faculty to address the Faculty at its first regular meeting in the academic year regarding general issues and policies affecting the Faculty in the upcoming year. (Passed February 12, 1991)

14: The Faculty shall invite the Chair of the Board to meet with the Faculty at its stated October meeting to report on the Trustees' agenda for the coming year, to answer any questions that the Faculty might have about that agenda, and to make any remarks about the state of the College that the Chair might deem appropriate. (Passed March 17, 1987)

15: The Faculty shall invite the President to report on budgetary prospects and issues at the stated October Faculty meeting. This report and Faculty responses to it will assist the Financial Affairs Committee in preparing its agenda for the remainder of the academic year. (Passed March 17, 1987)

16: The Faculty Secretary shall publish an annual report on attendance at Faculty meetings, listing by name all members of the Faculty who have attended fewer than half of all Faculty meetings, indicating whether attendance has risen or declined from levels of the previous year, and offering any suggestions for improving attendance that the Secretary might deem appropriate. (Passed March 17, 1987)

17: An observer of Student Government Association and student members of Faculty committees shall be admitted on a non-voting basis to stated meetings of the Faculty, except in those instances when individual student statuses are under discussion or the Faculty acts to close the meeting. (Passed October 8, 1991)

18: The Faculty shall invite the President of the Student Government Association to address the Faculty briefly, early in the fall term, about the agenda of the SGA for the coming year. (Passed April 3, 2001)