PREAMBLE

We, the faculty of Le Moyne College, regard ourselves as a Faculty Senate to function as the instrument whereby we may properly discharge our professional responsibilities in the governance of the College. Among the components of the College community the governing Board of Trustees is understood to exercise the final institutional authority in the interpretation and preservation of the traditional goals outlined in the charter of the College and to protect the mission of the College. The President, as Chief Executive Officer, is responsible for leadership, operation and administration, policy, procedure, communication between faculty and Board, and creation and preservation of institutional resources. The faculty has responsibility to propose, deliberate and recommend the implementation of academic policy, procedures and programs consistent with the mission of the College in such fundamental areas as curriculum, subject matter and methods of instruction, research, faculty status, and those aspects of student life which relate to the educational process.