ARTICLE VIII: Definitions

1. The Faculty Senate, as defined by the Regents, consists of all members of the general faculty of the University of Colorado as assigned to the Boulder campus. This group includes faculty with the following titles: professor, associate professor, assistant professor, senior instructor, instructor, scholar in residence, and artist in residence. Adjoint, attendant, clinical and research faculty with appointments of fifty-percent or more in the above ranks are also members of the Faculty Senate; visiting professors are not. Ex officio members with the right to vote are the Boulder Chancellor, the vice chancellors, all deans; the directors of the budget, libraries, and museum; and professors emeriti and emeritae. Campus officers should not exercise their right to vote if they are in a position to act on a recommendation.

2. The term Senate year means July 1 through June 30.

3. The term Academic Year means the period during which faculty report to campus (August 15) through spring semester commencement.

4. The term Academic Unit means schools, colleges, Boulder Campus libraries, the University Museum, and the ROTC.

5. The term Administration refers to the administration of the University of Colorado at Boulder, including deans, vice chancellors, and the Chancellor.

6. The term Assembly means Boulder Faculty Assembly, as defined in the Senate Rules.

7. The term Committee refers only to committees set forth in these bylaws, unless otherwise specified.

8. The term Department or Division means an immediate formal organizational subunit of the faculty of an academic unit, whether bearing either such name or any similar name, if the academic unit has such organized subunits of its faculty members.

9. The term Executive Committee means the Executive Committee of the Assembly.

10. The term Faculty Council means the Faculty Council that represents faculty of all four campuses of the University of Colorado.

11. The term Rules of the Senate means the Rules of the Boulder Faculty Senate.

12. The term Senate means the Boulder Faculty Senate as defined in the Rules of the Senate.

13. The terms UCSU and UGGS mean, respectively, the University of Colorado Student Union and the United Government of Graduate Students, of the University of Colorado, Boulder. A student is defined in the Constitution of the University of Colorado Student Union (UCSU), as follows: "Student shall be defined as any student-fee-paying member of the University of Colorado Student Union."

14. The term University Administration refers to the group of administrative officers whose responsibilities cover the several campuses of the University of Colorado.

15. The term university Faculty Senate means the Faculty Senate that represents faculty of all four campuses of the University of Colorado.