Faculty Senate
The faculty senate is a crucial part of the shared governance structure of higher education in the United States. Through this structure faculty, staff, students, and administrators employ power, expertise, and passion to the functioning and future of the institution. The senate is the chief policy-recommending body of the general faculty providing for faculty participation in the governance and decision-making process of 蘑菇短视频. The senate shall represent the general faculty as their principal voice to advise the chancellor and provost on the conduct of the university's affairs. The faculty senate shall represent the sense of the general faculty in the long-term development of the university's identity and mission.
It shall serve as a collegial forum for the airing of faculty concerns and suggestions about the quality of academic aspects of the university, including matters of instruction, curriculum, composition of the faculty and student body, research and creative activities, community outreach, university evaluation and planning, and other faculty and student affairs.
Council Pages AND INTERNAL LINKS
Academic Policy and Review Council (APRC)
Collegial Review Council (CRC)
2026-2027 MEETING SCHEDULE
General Faculty Meeting:
August 12, 2026, 10:05 am - Bardo (following open assembly)
Open Faculty Conversations:
Fall 2026: TBD
Spring 2027: TBD
Planning Team Meetings: Wednesdays, 12:15 - 1:15 pm, via Zoom
Fall 2026: August 25; September 23; October 21; November 17
Spring 2027: January 13; February 10; March 17; April 21
Regular Business Meetings (and Overflow Meetings): Wednesdays, 3 - 5 pm
All meetings take place in UC Multipurpose Room 232, unless otherwise noted.
Fall 2026: September 2 (9); September 30 - Blue Ridge 108A (Oct 7); October 28 - Blue Ridge 108A (Nov 4 - Killian 102); December 2 - Blue Ridge 108A (9)
Spring 2027: January 27 (Feb 3); February 17 (Mar 3); March 31 (Apr 7); April 28 (May 5)
Meeting materials and archived documents
Meeting materials, including agendas, reports, minutes, and archived documents, are accessible from our . For help, please contact facultysenate@wcu.edu.
While official meetings from each Faculty Senate meeting will be available after they are approved at the following meeting, a meeting summary is available shortly after each meeting.
Recent Actions
Find out what actions the Faculty Senate has taken recently by reading our resolutions. For archived actions, please visit the .
Resources
The Faculty Handbook provides ready access to information about the operation of the University and answers to the most frequently asked questions about operating procedures and policies.
The handbook may be reviewed and revised at any time to reflect changes in institutional policy, state and federal law or operational procedures.