Faculty Senate
The Faculty Senate at Mercy University
The Faculty Senate is an elected representative body for shared governance, with one senator apportioned for every 13 full-time core faculty members in each of the Schools (including the Libraries). In addition, there are four Senators elected at-large by the entire full-time core faculty body.
Shared governance gives faculty a voice in the decisions regarding academic management and operation of the University.
The Faculty Senate is empowered to form and charge standing and ad hoc Committees of the Faculty. The Senate, through its Committee on Committees, oversees faculty elections and appointments to fill faculty seats on these committees, as well as those charged by the President of the University.
Senate Executive Committee 2024-2025
President : Amanda Gunning- Professor, School of Education
Vice President: - Stephen B. Ward, Associate Professor, School of Liberal Arts
Secretary: Elise Arnold-Levene - Associate Professor, School of Liberal Arts
Treasurer: John Fuller - Assistant Professor, School of Business
Faculty Senate Constitution
A Constitution for faculty participation in the governance of Mercy University
Preamble:
The Faculty of the University are both members of the academic profession and employees. As such they have varied rights, competencies and responsibilities. In educational and academic matters they have as members of the academic profession, rights, competencies and responsibilities such that consultation with them and, by ordinary custom and practice, a formal expression of opinion by them is indispensable to the deliberative process. In managerial and fiscal matters they have a right, as professional academics in an academic institution, to a consultative partnership in that process. As employees, moreover, they have a right to be heard as to the terms and conditions of their employment. The arrangements laid down in what follows are intended as channels for action pursuant to these rights, competencies, and responsibilities.
