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The City University of New York
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Please see the UFS, Discipline Council, and College Statements on General Education and Transfer!

The roster of the UFS General Education Committee is here; CUNY Discipline Councils are here.

Also, the final version of the revised CUNY Bylaws, passed on October 31, by the Board Committee on Faculty, Staff and Administration and going to full Board on Nov 28, will be available shortly on the CUNY website, www.cuny.edu, follow the link to Trustees, then Board of Trustees Meetings.

The University Faculty Senate is the faculty governance body in academic matters of university-wide concern at The City University of New York. The Chair is an ex-officio CUNY Trustee and members of the Executive Committee serve as voting members of CUNY Board of Trustees Committees. The Chair of the University Faculty Senate also presides at meetings of the CUNY Council of Faculty Governance Leaders. The 136 elected Senators represent 12,000 full- and part-time faculty, and provide a representative, collective faculty voice from each of the 20 campuses. Senators are charged with responsibility in issues of curriculum, degree requirements, and institutional mission at the University level. Senators serve on various university-wide committees, including those dealing with academic governance of the CUNYBA, the School of Professional Studies, the Research Foundation, and the CUNY Academy. The University Faculty Senate and its Committees work with the Senates on the CUNY campuses and the CUNY Discipline Councils.

The UFS holds conferences on topics of general academic interest. The most recent UFS conferences were on Higher Education in the Prisons and General Education & Faculty Authority: CUNY’s Future. Please also look at our other past conferences.

The University Faculty Senate also informs the University Community of new documents & proposals up for consideration before the Board of Trustees, and helps provide for appropriate consultation on the issues. One recent example is our Academic Freedom Document; another is an analysis provided by our Budget Advisory Committee on this year's Senior College Allocations. Please see our General Information Site for more faculty governance information.

Also of interest: latest issue of the Senate Digest; the 2009 Faculty Experience Survey; and the 2005 Perez v. CUNY Decision.

UFS	The University Faculty Senate of the City University of New York 535 E. 80th Street, New York, NY 10075 - 212-794-5538 (phone), 212-794-5508 (fax) - Email: cunyufs@gmail.com
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