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Faculty Governance
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- Delegations of Responsibility from the Earlham By-Laws
Fundamental responsibility for the operations of Earlham College
rests, by law, with the Earlham Board of Trustees. The Earlham
By-Laws, which are enacted by the Board of Trustees, set the basic
framework of governance at the college. Article II of the Earlham
By-laws, concerning "The Faculty," delegates important responsibilities to the
Faculty and to the President. This article reads as follows:
Section 1. ORGANIZATION OF THE FACULTY
The members of the Earlham Faculty shall be classified as follows:
Administrative officers, responsible for organization and carrying
forward the work of Earlham. Instructional staff, consisting
of professors, associate professors, assistant professors, instructors,
and lecturers.
Section 2. RESPONSIBILITIES OF THE FACULTY
The Faculty for the purpose of the transaction of business shall consist of both
the administrative and instructional personnel. The Faculty is
authorized and empowered to prescribe courses of instruction, to
adopt academic methods and to carry on all of the educational functions
of the institution for the best interest thereof, except where
the Board may take general or special action in reference thereto.
The Faculty shall have oversight of the non-academic life on the
College campus with such delegation of responsibility to committees
or organizations from the Earlham community, including its student
body, as is deemed appropriate. Section 3. RESPONSIBILITIES OF THE PRESIDENT
The President shall be named by the Board of Trustees to serve as the chief executive
officer of Earlham. The President shall appoint the other administrative
officers of Earlham subject to other provisions of the By-Laws.
The President shall attend the meetings of the Board of Trustees,
with the full power and responsibility of a Trustee except that
the President shall not vote when personally concerned. The President
shall be the Board's
principal advisor on all matters pertaining to the educational programs and the
general welfare of Earlham and shall make recommendations for the proper conduct
of the institution. The President may act with freedom from interference by the
Board within the lines of general policy laid down by the Board, but, upon any
particular matter upon which the Board may have passed, the President shall follow
the specific action taken. Section 4. ADMINISTRATION OF EARLHAM
A major role of leadership in the educational and museum program must inevitably
rest with the President, under the policies of the Board of Trustees. In the
administration of that educational and museum program, as with the fiscal and
developmental aspects, however, responsibilities must be shared among other administrative
officers and faculty committees. The President shall present to the Board once
a year a report on the organizational, administrative, and committee structures
and their functioning, along with the names of those on each committee and in
each major position.
Care shall be taken to see that there are clear delegations and responsibility
and authority for establishing and maintaining educational and museum standards,
for supervising the curriculum and the work of the Registrar, for maintaining
close and helpful associations with the members of the Faculty in their teaching
capacity, their research and field projects, and in relation to their salaries
and working conditions, and for supervision of the fiscal and developmental activities.
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