2.03 – Duties and Powers of College and School Faculties

Subject to the general jurisdiction of the University Faculty over all educational matters which concern more than one college (1.02), college faculties have the following duties and powers:

  1. To control matters involving scholarship, including the advancement of students, and dismissal for defective scholarship.
  2. To recommend to the University Faculty requirements for admission, course of study, conditions of graduation, and the nature of the baccalaureate degrees conferred. In the case of graduate program matters to recommend to the Graduate School Faculty as provided in 1.02(8).
  3. To administer the regulations for the admission of students, so far as this duty is committed to them by the University Faculty.
  4. To recommend to the Board of Regents candidates for degrees in courses.
  5. To recommend candidates for fellowships and scholarships.
  6. To recommend honorary fellows and honorary scholars.
  7. To establish research and field services and sponsor conferences, institutes, clinics, and short courses appropriate to the college.
  8. To make appropriate citations with approval of the Board of Regents recognizing outstanding achievements by Wisconsin citizens and others who have been connected with the University or the State.
  9. To review and to make recommendations to appropriate administrative officers concerning proposals affecting departmental or other academic sub-unit structure of the concerned college.
  10. To establish by Faculty action and administrative approval by appropriate Deans liaison Faculty bodies between two (2) or more colleges. Recommendations may be made to the participating faculties on any educational matter normally within the jurisdiction of a single Faculty. Recommendations from such liaison bodies are subject to review and approval of each participating college.
  11. To establish or designate an Academic Planning Committee as a standing Faculty committee of the college (except the Graduate School) and determine its composition, method of election, procedures, and criteria for action. This information shall be communicated by the Dean to the Secretary of the University. The functions of each Academic Planning Committee shall include, but not be limited to the following:
    1. Make recommendations to the Dean regarding the development of long-range plans and goals for the college consistent with the preservation of high quality teaching, research and public service.
    2. Review academic program plans and related budgetary proposals regarding positions prepared by the schools, departments or their functional equivalents.
    3. Afford schools and departments or their functional equivalents ample opportunity to present information and position statements during programmatic and budgetary discussions.
    4. Advise the Dean regarding criteria and priorities for budget adjustments.
    5. Advise a school or department (or its functional equivalent) and the Dean in the event department and Dean disagree over specific programmatic or budgetary decisions regarding open Faculty positions or positions occupied by probationary Faculty (See 4.05).
  12. The Faculty of each college whose units offer graduate work shall establish a Graduate Program Committee and determine its composition, size, and method of election and/or appointment of its members. Faculty members are elected or appointed from among the members of its Graduate School Faculty. Student members, if provided for in the composition of the Committee, are appointed by the Dean in consultation with the student organization(s) designated as appropriate by the Faculty. The functions of each Graduate Program Committee shall include, but not limited to the following:
    1. Oversees all continuing graduate programs within the college.
    2. Reviews all proposals for new graduate programs or modifications of existing graduate programs in the college. Proposals originating in schools, in departments, or in inter-departmental bodies and approved by the college committees shall be forwarded by the Dean of the college with recommendations to the Dean of the Graduate School for review and action by the Graduate Faculty Committee and by the Dean of the Graduate School.
  13. For colleges containing schools, any of these duties and power, except the creation of an Academic Planning Committee, may be delegated to the individual schools by the Faculty of the college. An individual school may create an Academic Planning Committee to advise on school matters.