Faculty Senate: "exercise authority of the Instructional faculty with respect to policy on academic matters and the professional affairs of faculty, and perform such other functions as are delegated to it by the Instructional faculty in recommending policies to the President and to other appropriate individuals and bodies on academic requirements; credit; faculty development; personnel policies, standards for retention, promotion, tenure, and merit; institutional planning; and all other concerns which affect the welfare of the University."

Instructional faculty: "participate in the formulation, development, review, and alteration of regulations and procedures affecting academics and the Instructional faculty of the University.  These regulatory and procedural areas shall include:

curriculum and transfer credit;
grading system, examinations, and appeals;
faculty development;
standards for retention, promotion, tenure, and the recognition of merit;
faculty personnel matters such as fringe benefits, outside employment, leaves of absence, and other working conditions;
long and short range institutional academic and fiscal planning

Faculty Senate: "approval body for all university-wide policies and procedures pertaining to curricular matters, faculty affairs, and other areas of traditional responsibility, and represents the collective voice of the faculty to the administration and the community at large."

Faculty Governance System:
"defines and promotes the rights and responsibilities of faculty with respect to scholarly activity, mutual respect and tolerance, collegiality, and equity across the academic units of the institution; provides a process for recommending university policies concerning student, staff, community, faculty, campus, and administrative affairs; protects and promotes academic freedom; creates and maintains a flexible, collegial, and integrated structure; promotes the equitable economic welfare of the faculty; and
provides a process for ensuring quality in academic programs."

Standing Teams:

 Faculty Affairs
 Student Affairs
 Graduate Curriculum
 Undergraduate Curriculum
 Institutional Affairs
 Grants and Research
 Library
 Technology

University Faculty Senate: "formulates academic policy at the University level, and advises the President and Board of Directors on central fiscal and administrative decisions that affect the mission of the University."

Campus Executive Faculties: "formulates academic policy for [each campus].  ... advise the Provost or Executive Vice President for their campus on fiscal and ad ministrative matters as well as academic policies."

School Executive Councils: "the educational policy making body for [each] school."
 

Homewood [Arts and Sciences, and Engineering] Schools Faculty Assembly: "make recommendations concerning matters pertaining to the purposes and functioning of the University."

Homewood Schools Academic Council:

• review and recommend candidates for faculty appointments and promotions
• review proposals for new degrees and majors and minors; consider matters of curricular and instructional policy that have significant bearing on academic programs
• conduct periodic reviews of departments in the schools; at their discretion, review centers, institutes and administrative units that influence academic programs
• advise administrators on academically important questions of institutional policy and strategy
• review all candidates for Ph.D. in all academic units of the University and recommend awarding of the degree to those approved
• consider cases of alleged academic misconduct, faculty discipline, and appeals from negative promotion decisions, and will take action as necessary
• advise administration regarding academic grievances brought before the Council by the Deans, Provost, President, or subcommittees, or in extraordinary circumstances, by members of the faculty

School of Advanced International Studies Academic Board: "principal duties are to recruit and recommend appointments and promotions to the faculty.  It also advises the Dean on policy issues that cannot properly or conveniently be considered by the whole faculty or by administrators alone."

School of Advanced International Studies Committees: "recommend academic decisions and policies to the Dean and the faculty within their area of authority and develop rules of procedure to facilitate the academic governance of the School. ...  The principal SAIS committees are Admissions*, Bologna Center*, Budget*, Foreign Policy Institute, Curriculum*, Hopkins-Nanjing*, Library*, and the Ph.D. Committee*. (* includes student representatives)

University Council:

•  establish the educational and academic policies of the university
•  participate through curriculum councils in determination of university curriculum
•  participate in selection of faculty committees
•  advise president on appointment of administrative officers, including the selection of a president
•  participate in and advise president and vice presidents on preparing and administering the annual budget
•  participate in and advise president on determining basic policies regarding campus planning, building construction and utilization
•  aid in developing basic policies for the university
• participate actively in decisions on other matters that may directly affect educational policies for which the University Council is primarily responsible
• advise on policies regarding academic salaries, sabbatical leaves, leaves without pay, tenure, and promotion (Personnel Committee)
• establish standing and temporary committees for the discharge of its responsibilities
• advise president and vice presidents on policies affecting the quality of student life on campus

• review and recommend academic policies, procedures, and practices at the university level to appropriate administrative officers and governance bodies of the university
• advance collective and individual faculty prerogatives in university policies and procedures
• make recommendations on matters affecting faculty welfare
• annually assess and report to the faculty and the administration the effectiveness of the faculty grievance processes
• articulate and promulgate faculty positions on issues of general concern within and to the university
• define and recommend mechanisms for faculty participation in university governance and in system-wide and state-wide issues
• advise university administrators on matters concerning university priorities, budgets, facilities, long-range planning, and administrative organization directly or primarily related to its academic mission
• establish committees such as, but not limited to, committees on faculty rights and responsibilities, faculty compensation and benefits, and university budgets and facilities

Faculty Senate: "shall have the authority to conduct studies, to receive recommendations from other sources and to make recommendations on academic matters to the University Assembly ... concerning the following:

•   General academic policies and welfare
•   Requirements for admission and graduation
•   Honors and scholastic performance
•   Approval of candidates for degrees
•   Faculty rules of procedure"

•   General academic policy and welfare
•   Requirements for admission and graduation
•   Honors and scholastic performance
•   Approval of candidates for degrees
•   Student life and activities
•   Faculty rules of procedure
•   Rules of procedure of the University Assembly"
•  "Legislation requiring General Faculty ratification ... (1) changes in the Rules of Procedure of the University Assembly, (2) proposed revisions in the Rules and Regulations of the Board of Regents and (3) items specified by the Board of Regents as requiring approval by the Chancellor and the Board of Regents."

Faculty Assembly:

• regularly advise the President and Provost on matters affecting the welfare of the university
• assess the impact of proposed programs and program changes that affect more than one faculty or school or significantly affect the university's resource allocation or educational mission; evaluate the impact of university plans on educational policy, admissions policy, student affairs, personnel policy, and resource allocation within the university
• provide faculty liaison to the Board of Visitors and representation to all long-range planning committees, including the Budget and Policy Advisory Committee
• periodically (every 4 years) review the jurisdiction, composition, and activities of the university-wide committees and recommend changes it deems necessary