The Charge to Senate Assembly and SACUA
Bylaws of the Board of Regents
University of Michigan
Sec 4.01.
...The Senate is authorized to consider any subject pertaining to the interests of the University, and to make recommendations to the Board of Regents in regard thereto. Decisions of the University Senate with respect to matters within its jurisdiction shall constitute the binding action of the University faculties...
Sec 4.01.
...Jurisdiction over academic policies shall reside in the faculties of the various schools and colleges, but insofar as actions by the several faculties affect University policy as a whole, or schools and colleges other than the one in which they originate, they shall be brought before the University Senate.
Sec. 4.04.
The Senate Assembly shall serve as the legislative arm of the Senate. ... The areas of concern of the assembly shall be those of the Senate...
Sec. 4.04.
...The Assembly shall have power to consider and advise regarding all matters within the jurisdiction of the University Senate which affect the functioning of the University as an institution of higher learning, which concern its obligations to the state and to the community at large, and which relate to its internal organization insofar as such matters of internal organization involve general questions of educational policy...
Sec 4.04.
...The Assembly shall advise and consult with the president on any matter of University policy which the president may place before it...
Sec 4.04.
...The Assembly may request information from any member of the University staff, and may invite any such person to sit with it for the purpose of consultation and advice...
Sec 4.06.
... Periodically, but not less than once each year, the Assembly shall meet with the executive officers of the University...
Sec 4.06.
...The Assembly shall establish standing committees to advise and consult with the vice presidents of the University on matters within the areas of their respective responsibilities...
Sec. 4.08.
The Senate Advisory Committee on University Affairs, on behalf of the Assembly, shall advise and consult with the president of the University on matters of University policy and shall serve as an instrument for effecting the actions of the Senate and the Assembly...
Sec. 4.08.
...[SACUA] shall nominate and supervise the committees of the Assembly and shall perform other functions delegated to it by these bylaws or by the Assembly.