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Developing a Mission Statement for a Faculty Senate
Below, you can read or skim this excellent and important article from Planning for Higher Education. Please do share this URL with any faculty colleagues you know who might understand the value of this for their campus.
The authors are faculty at the University of North Texas who reviewed peer institutions for faculty senate missions, analyzed them, and engaged their faculty in a process resulting in a faculty senate mission statement.
Here, you can also access an interactive beta SCUP semantic analysis of the document, where you can explore its facts, summaries, and key terms in a customizable fashion.
That analysis tells us that the following are the top ten "facts" in this article:
| 1. | mission of the Faculty Senate represent faculty interests to University and community stakeholders |
| 2. | mission of the Faculty Senate lead faculty in fulfilling their responsibilities in the shared governance of the University |
| 3. | faculty senate is agent of the faculty, and its mission statement stakes the faculty's claim in the institutional decision-making process |
| 4. | Chair of the faculty senate tasked to develop a mission/vision statement for the faculty senate |
| 5. | Faculty Senate will be perceived by faculty and administrators as a well-respected representative body that has a substantive role in University governance |
| 6. | work of the Faculty Senate will be seen as highly relevant to the daily endeavors of faculty and to University decisions that affect academic affairs |
| 7. | that faculty involvement is the most important factor contributing to faculty senate effectiveness |
| 8. | One way to shape faculty senate efforts and to advocate for the senate's role in the university community is adhere to a clearly defined mission statement |
| 9. | committee approached this task with the strong sense that developing a mission statement was an important step in establishing the faculty senate's role in shared university governance |
| 10. | Faculty Senate serves as a liaison between faculty and administration |
Labels: Faculty, faculty senate, Mission, mission statement, Academic Planning, Governance, University of North Texas, Strategic Planning