Adopted by the Faculty Assembly on September 22, 2010<\/p>\n
The intent of these rules is to provide for constructive and democratic meetings, to facilitate the business of the Faculty Assembly, and to encourage full participation. These rules shall be construed accordingly, and may be suspended by a majority vote of the Faculty Assembly.<\/p>\n
Rule 1: Beginning of the meeting:<\/strong> The Chair begins the meeting by calling the Assembly to order, immediately followed by a motion for approval of the previous minutes. The Chair then proceeds via the agenda published on the Faculty Assembly website one week in advance. Deviations from this agenda are permitted only by motion of the Assembly.\u00a0 Only items requiring a decision of the Assembly may be placed on the agenda, and shall contain a proposed motion.\u00a0 There are two exceptions: (1) The President of the College, the Provost, and the Faculty Assembly Executive Council President may each address the Assembly, if they so desire, for five minutes at the beginning of the session.\u00a0 (2) Oral reports from faculty committees or faculty that are designated liaisons to administration offices or boards, limited to five minutes each, which are appropriate to a decision item, shall be permitted prior to consideration of the motion, if the report is noted on the agenda. If these speakers would like to make written materials available to the Assembly, they may do so by providing them to the Faculty Assembly President in advance of or at the meeting, who will arrange to have them posted on the Faculty Assembly website.<\/p>\n Rule 2: Proceeding Through The<\/strong> Agenda:<\/strong><\/p>\n Rule 3:\u00a0 Speaking in Assembly:<\/strong> After the agenda item has been read by the Chair, each member of the Assembly may obtain the floor (the right to speak) by being the first to stand or raise a hand when the Chair has finished, or after subsequent speakers have finished. The persons recognized by the Chair will be given a microphone and speak in the order indicated. Microphone usage is mandatory and the Chair will direct those speaking to wait for and use the microphone. Each person may speak for up to two minutes when recognized, after identifying themselves and their position, without use of acronyms, and the Chair shall mark the end of the two-minute period by stating \u201cthank you.\u201d If the speaker does not conclude their remarks, the Chair shall state \u201cYour time is up.\u201d If the speaker continues nonetheless, the Chair shall note failure to yield the microphone at this time, to be recorded by the Secretary. If the Chair fails to enforce the time limit, any member of the Assembly may stand and call attention to the time limit. A speaker who fails to adhere to the time limit twice in one meeting shall result in a loss of speaking privileges for the duration of the meeting. The two-minute period is personal, and may not be yielded to others. No member can speak twice to the same issue until everyone else wishing to speak has spoken to it once. All remarks must be directed to the Chair, and not to individual members of the Assembly.<\/p>\n Rule 4: Secondary<\/strong> Motions:<\/strong><\/p>\n Modified for Ramapo College Faculty Assembly Adopted by the Faculty Assembly on September 22, 2010 The intent of these rules is to provide for constructive and democratic meetings, to facilitate the business of the Faculty Assembly, and to encourage full participation. These rules shall be construed accordingly, and may be suspended by a majority vote […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":502,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"page_leftCol.php","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-16","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"yoast_head":"\n\n
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