* The Provost (Chief Academic Officer) is an ex officio non-voting member of the University Senate as specified in Article II Section 1.A.1 of the University Senate Bylaws.  As the designee of the Chief Academic Officer to FAPC, the Provost serves as a voting member on FAPC.

University Senate Bylaws II.Section1.A.1.  The University Senate shall have fifty (50) members distributed as follows. the University President, who shall be an ex officio non-voting member, the Chief Academic Officer, who shall be an ex officio non-voting member, thirty-seven (37) members that are faculty selected as described in II.Section1.A.2, four (4) members from the staff selected as described in II.Section1.A.3, two (2) members that are students selected as described in II.Section1.A.4, and five (5) members that are Presidential Appointees selected as described in II.Section1.A.5.  Faculty representation shall always constitute at least seventy-five percent of the voting membership of the University Senate.

University Senate Bylaws IV.Section 4. All members of the University Senate shall have at least one University Senate committee assignment. Faculty, staff, administrators and students who are not members of the University Senate may be nominated to University Senate committees if the Subcommittee on Nominations deems that appropriate. Committee members who are not members of the University Senate shall be afforded all rights of committee membership, including voting unless explicitly designated as a non-voting member of the committee in these bylaws, but shall have none of these rights in the University Senate.

University Senate Bylaws V.Section2.C.3.a.  The Faculty Affairs Policy Committee shall have thirteen (13) members distributed as follows:  eleven (11) members selected from the Corps of Instruction faculty, at least seven (7) of whom are elected faculty senators, one (1) member who is the Chief Academic Officer or an individual appointed by the Chief Academic Officer to serve as his/her designee in compliance with V.Section2.C, and one (1) member appointed by the University President in compliance with II.Section1.A.5.

University Senate Bylaws V.Section2.C. Standing Committees.  These committees shall have the following three functions (a) develop recommendations for new policy, (b) develop recommendations that revise existing policy, and (c) serve in advisory role, each applied in a manner consistent with the purposes and powers of the University Senate expressed in Article I.  The inclusion of an appropriate chief division officer or designee is to improve committee effectiveness through communication and coordination with an appropriate administrator who has authority and responsibility for policy implementation in the general area addressed by the committee.