What informal power does the Faculty Senate have?
The President receives advice from a variety of administrators. Committees of administrators, such as the assembly of deans and other unit heads in the Provost’s Council, also provide formal advice, through set channels. However, the Faculty Senate, as the overall representative body for the faculty, provides a ground-up perspective from the teachers and researchers who actually carry out the basic missions of the university. Because of this unique perspective, which supplements the perspective of the administration committees mentioned above, its advice and acquiescence are actively sought.
