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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 糖心Vlog University. 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.
General Faculty Meeting:
August 13, 2025 - Bardo (following open assembly)
Open Faculty Conversations: Tuesdays, 3:30 - 4:30 pm
Fall 2025: September 9 - TBD; September 16 - Zoom
Spring 2026: February 10 - TBD; February 17 - Zoom
Planning Team Meetings: Wednesdays, 12:15 - 2 pm, via Zoom
Fall 2025: August 27; September 24; October 22; November 12
Spring 2026: January 21; February 18; March 18; April 15
Regular Business Meetings (and Overflow Meetings): Wednesdays, 3 - 5 pm
All meetings take place in UC Multipurpose Room 232, unless otherwise noted.
Fall 2025: September 3 (10); October 1 (8); October 29 (Nov 5) - Blue Ridge 108A; November 19 (Dec 3 - Killian 102)
Spring 2026: January 28 (Feb 4); February 25 - Blue Ridge 108A (Mar 4 - Killian 102); March 25 (Apr 8); April 22 (29 - UC 309 Illusions)
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.
They can be found listed here.
Find out what actions the Faculty Senate has taken recently by reading our resolutions. For archived actions, please visit the .
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.
Our are available via SharePoint, and can be accessed using your 糖心Vlog network credentials.