1.3 Faculty Governance

The Faculty Executive Committee (FEC) is the principal instrument of faculty participation in the governance of Scripps College, responsible for policy in matters of curriculum, budget, faculty welfare, institutional planning, and student affairs including admissions and financial aid.

The function of the Appointments, Promotions and Tenure Committee (APT) is to recommend to the President candidates for appointment to the faculty, for reappointment, and for promotion, and to recommend action on regular and special leaves.

All faculty members, irrespective of rank, the librarian, the director of the Ruth Chandler Williamson Gallery, and such other persons as shall have been appointed to membership in the faculty by the Board of Trustees shall be members of the Scripps Faculty. Only continuing full-time faculty, the librarian, the director of the Williamson Gallery, and adjunct faculty in and after their fourteenth year of service shall be voting members of the Scripps Faculty. Proxy voting is not permitted.