23-9.2:4.1 - Faculty representatives to the State Board for Community Colleges, local community college boards, ... - Virginia Statutes

§ 23-9.2:4.1. Faculty representatives to the State Board for CommunityColleges, local community college boards, and boards of visitors.

A. The State Board for Community Colleges, local community college boards,and the boards of visitors of any four-year state institution of highereducation may appoint one or more nonvoting, advisory faculty representativesto their respective boards. In the case of local community college boards andboards of visitors, the representatives appointed by the boards shall bechosen from individuals elected by the faculty or the institution's facultysenate or other equivalent group of the relevant institution. In the case ofthe State Board for Community Colleges, representatives appointed by theBoard shall be chosen from individuals elected by the Chancellor's FacultyAdvisory Committee. Such representatives shall be appointed to serve terms ofnot less than one 12-month period, which shall be coterminous with theinstitution's fiscal year, or for such terms as may be mutually agreed to bythe State Board for Community Colleges and the Chancellor's Faculty AdvisoryCommittee, or by the local community college board or the board of visitors,as the case may be, and the institution's faculty senate or other equivalentgroup.

B. Nothing in this section shall prohibit the State Board for CommunityColleges, local community college boards, or any boards of visitors fromexcluding such representatives from discussions of faculty grievances,faculty or staff disciplinary matters, or salaries, or other matters, at thediscretion of the relevant board.

(2004, cc. 499, 519.)