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About the Council
- Governance Responsibilities. Official actions in these areas go as a recommendation to the President who is charged with making the final decision or final recommendation to the Board.
- Strategic
Plan (President, Board)
- Institutional
facilities initiatives and priorities (President, Board)
- Yearly
budget parameters and budget (President, Board)
- Salary
and benefits (President, Board)
- Personnel
policies and procedures (President)
- Substantive
issues of College image and marketing (President, Board)
- New
non-curricular and non-cocurricular College programs and initiatives
which significantly impact the College's basic philosophy and
mission and/or significantly impact the allocation of financial
and staffing resources. Makes recommendation to the President
only after receiving a recommendation from the Community of
Educators (President, Board)
- Composition
of membership, internal organization, and governance of the
College Council and its standing and ad hoc committees. The
Council is responsible for establishing ad hoc committees and
for revising standing committees' composition and/or responsibilities
as needed to most effectively carry out the Council's work.
(President)
In the following [two] areas, the Community of Educators has primary responsibility. The Community of Educators initiates actions in these areas and, after receiving recommendation from the College Council, makes final recommendation to the President.
- Review
proposals for new curricular and cocurricular programing initiatives
which would significantly impact the College's basic philosophy
and mission and/or significantly impact the allocation of financial
and staffing resources (Community of Educators)
- Academic
Calendar (Community of Educators)
In the following [three] areas, the President has primary responsibility. The President initiates actions and, after receiving Community of Educators and College Council recommendations, takes final action.
- Community
Covenant (President, Board)
- College
Mission and Identity; Foundational Values; Statement of Faith
(President, Board)
- The
general structure of the governance system (i.e., governance
responsibilities and protocol and the nature and function of
the major governance bodies) (President, Board)
- Membership (38 members)
- Elected Membership
- Three Ranked Faculty
- One
representative from the Ranked Faculty Affairs Committee
elected annually by the Ranked Faculty Affairs Committee;
- Two at-large representatives from the Ranked Faculty
elected by the Ranked Faculty to a two-year term.
- Three employees with administrative contracts
- One
representative from the Administrator Affairs Committee
elected annually by the Administrative Affairs Committee.
- One Cocurricular Educator and one administrative
employee (who is not a Cocurricular Educator) elected
by the administrative employees to two-year staggered
terms.
- Three Staff employees
- One
representative from the Staff Affairs Committee
elected annually by the Staff Affairs Committee.
- Two at-large staff representatives elected by the
Staff employees to a two-year term.
- Two students appointed by the Student Government Association,
one of whom will be the SGA President.
- Ex officio
- President, Chair
- Provost
- Vice
President for Administration and Finance
- Vice
President of Planning
- Vice
President for Advancement
- College
Legal Counsel (voice but no vote)
- Director
of Human Resources
- Dean
of the Arts
- Dean
of Education and Social Sciences
- Dean
of Health and Natural Sciences
- Dean
of the Humanities
- Dean
of Mathematics, Engineering, and Business
- Dean
of Curriculum
- Dean
for External Programs
- Vice
Provost/Dean of Students
- Vice
Provost/College Pastor
- Assistant
Dean for Multicultural Programs
- Dean
of Enrollment Management
- Director
of Information Technology Services
- Director
of Public Relations
- Director
of Development
- Director
of Financial Operations and Controller
- Director
of Operations
- Chair
of the Community of Educators
- Chair
of the Ranked Faculty Meeting
- Chair
of the Staff Affairs Committee
- Chair
of the Administrative Affairs Committee
- College Council Leadership and Organization
- The President serves as chair of the College Council. The Provost
serves as chair in the President's absence.
- A College Council Steering Committee
- Membership: President (chair), Provost, Vice Presidents,
Chair of the Community of Educators, Director of Human
Resources
- Functions:
- Advise
the President in setting the agenda.
- Each
spring, oversee the appointment of Council members
to the Council's subcommittees for the following
year.
- Meeting Procedures
- The agenda for all College Council meetings will be set
by the President in consultation with the Steering Committee
and distributed electronically to the full College community
at least two working days prior to each meeting.
- The draft minutes for each College Council meeting will be
distributed electronically to the full College community in
a timely manner after the meeting. Formal approval of all minutes
will take place at the following College Council meeting.
- A quorum must be present to take official action. Such
a quorum shall consist of more than 50 percent of the Council
membership.
- Robert's Rules of Order shall be the guiding framework
for sessions of the College Council.
- Subcommittees of the College Council. The College Council subcommittees are designed to be standing working groups within the College Council. They differ from other standing committees related to the College Council in that the membership of the subcommittees is made up almost exclusively of Council members. The College Council has the authority to add, delete or modify this sub-committee structures as necessary to effectively fulfil its responsibilities. In the spring of each year after elections have taken place, the College Council will appoint members of the subcommittees for the following year.
- Institutional Planning
- Membership
- Vice
President for Planning, Chair
- Provost
- Vice
President of Administration and Finance
- Vice
President for Advancement
- Three
members of the College Council
- Responsibilities
- At
least every five years, review and propose changes
in the College's Long-Range Plan (College Council)
- Annually
review and update the current long range plan and
set institutional priorities for building budget
parameters for the following budget year, including
the approval of major programmatic initiatives and
staffing needs (College Council)
- Review
all major institutional programmatic initiatives
in light of the long range plan, institutional priorities
and college mission (College Council)
- Finance
- Membership
- Vice
President for Administration and Finance, Chair
- Director
of Financial Operations and Controller
- Director
of Institutional Finance
- Three
members of the College Council
- Responsibilities
- Develop
and annually update a long-range financial forecast
within the assumptions of the long-range plan (College
Council)
- Develop
recommendations for operating budget parameters
for the following academic year, in accordance with
priorities established by the College Council. The
process and timetable for this function shall be
as follows:
- In
the early fall of each academic year, using
the institutional priorities established by
the College Council, the Finance subcommittee
shall recommend budget parameters to the College
Council.
- This
proposal, with an accompanying rationale,
will include comparative compensation data
and will be presented to the Community of
Educators Senate by November 15.
- The
College Council, after consideration of input
from the Community of Educators Senate, will
make a recommendation to the President before
the end of the Fall Semester.
- In
the spring, the Finance Subcommittee will make a
final recommendation for the budget to the College
Council who makes a recommendation to the President
- Personnel
- Membership
- Director
of Human Resources, Chair
- Vice
President of Planning
- College
Counsel
- Chairs
of the three personnel committees
- One
member of the College Council
- Responsibilities
- Periodically
review all College-wide personnel policies as published
in the Personnel and Policies Manual and
recommend changes and additions (College Council,
President).
- Develop
and recommend College-wide policies and guidelines
related to full-time and part-time employee benefits
(College Council).
- Develop
and recommend general guidelines and parameters
covering all full-time and part-time employees related
to terms of initial hire, evaluation, and professional
development (College Council after input from three
personnel committees, President).
- Monitor
employee morale and well-being.
- College Council Standing Committees. College Council Standing Committees are those standing committees whose primary responsibility is to make recommendation to the College Council.
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