Faculty Senate - The Senate meets once a year in March.

Membership of the University Senate consists of all members of the professorial staff, the executive officers of the university, the deans of the schools and colleges, such members of the research and library staff as may be designated in accordance with standards and procedures approved by the Senate Assembly, and such other major officers as may be designated by the Board of Regents from time to time. For a more detailed definition of Senate membership refer to the Report of the Assembly's Bylaws Committee, dated March 19, 1968. [RB 4.01; Rules Article 1, Sec.1]

Emeritus Professors shall be regarded as members of the University instructional staff who have retired and, as such, are entitled to attend without vote, meetings of the University Senate. [RB 5.20; Rules Article 1, Sec. 6(1)]

Research personnel who hold primary research rank (assistant, associate, or full research scientist) and have a full time appointment as a regular staff member shall be designated as members of the University Senate. A member of the library staff may be designated as a member of the Senate by the Faculty of the School of Information and Library Studies if the member (1) has a master's degree in librarianship or its equivalent, (2) us an advanced library specialist, the head of a branch library, or the supervisor of a group of libraries, and (3) has been recommended for designation by the director of the library in which the librarian serves. [Rules Article L, Sec. 1]