POLICIES GOVERNING THE PROFESSIONAL UNDERGRADUATE AND GRADUATE FACULTY
I—Purpose
The Professional Faculty is a body of specially appointed undergraduate and graduate faculty charged with the delegated final authority in matters referred to it, concerning the operations of the Andrews University professional programs that have professional degree councils.
II—Membership
Section 1
Members of the Professional Faculty are appointed by the President of Andrews University in consultation with the professional department chairpersons and their respective deans, and the Provost.
Section 2
Membership of the body shall include all the professional faculty of each professional program operating within the Professional Degree Council System plus no more than an equal and proportional number of participating non-professional faculty selected from the participating departments.
Section 3
Officers of the Professional Undergraduate and Graduate Faculty are the following:
Chair: Dean of the School initiating the referral.
Vice-Chair: The Coordinator of Graduate Program for the school initiating the referral.
Secretary: The department chair in the school initiating the referral.
Section 4
The duties of the officers shall be:
Chair: To develop an agenda with the secretary and in consultation with the other participating deans, call meetings and preside at the same.
Vice-Chair: Substitutes for the chair where appropriate.
Secretary: Assists the chair in drawing up an agenda. Keeps minutes of meetings and circulates the same to all members.
III—Meetings
Section 1
Meetings of the Professional Faculty are called only when referrals are received from any of the participating school faculties.
Section 2
Notice of meetings shall be received in writing at least seven (7) days prior to date scheduled.
Section 3
A quorum at such a meeting shall be fifty percent plus one of the total membership.
Section 4
Where a quorum cannot be mustered at the first meeting, the referred matter shall stand and be implemented.
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