The Rules Committee is the guardian of the faculty rules. The rules are a part of the Ohio Administrative Code, and proposals to change the rules must be vetted by the Rules Committee, in collaboration with other committees, including Faculty Council. The specific rule language must be finalized by the committee before any rule change is proposed to the University Senate for approval.
Leadership
Robert HughesNewark, Faculty Senator 2026-2029Rules Chair, 2026-2027
| Member | Source | Term Ends |
|---|---|---|
| Brian Turner | Faculty Council | 2027 |
| Mary Breckenridge | Faculty Council | 2028 |
| Rob Hughes | Faculty Council | 2029 |
| Caroline Clark | Faculty Council | 2029 |
| Susan Gershman | Faculty Council | 2029 |
| Joal Beane | Faculty Council | 2029 |
| Kevin Petrilla | USAC | 2027 |
| IPC | 2027 | |
| CGS | 2027 | |
| USG | 2027 | |
| Ivy Hammond | Recording Secretary | |
| Sara Watson | Senate Secretary |
Rule 3335-5-47.3 Rules Committee
(A) Membership
The rules committee shall consist of eleven members.
- Six faculty senators appointed by the executive committee of the faculty council
- Three student senators.
- One graduate student.
- One professional student.
- One undergraduate student.
- One staff senator, appointed by the university staff advisory committee.
- One administrator. The secretary of the university senate.
(B) Terms of Service
- Faculty members shall serve three-year terms and are eligible for immediate reelection or reappointment to a second term. Faculty may serve no more than 2 consecutive terms (6 years) on the committee.
- Staff members shall serve three-year terms and are eligible for immediate reelection or reappointment to a second term. Staff may serve no more than 2 consecutive terms (6 years) on the committee.
- Student members shall serve one-year terms.
- Members shall be senators during the first year of their term but may continue to serve on the rules committee after their senate term concludes.
- The chair shall be a faculty member and may not serve as chair for more than three successive years.
- A chair-elect is elected every spring to serve as chair-elect during the following academic year. The chair-elect serves as chair the academic year thereafter.
(C) Duties and Responsibilities
- Be responsible, in cooperation with the secretary of the university senate, for the monitoring of the "Rules of the University Faculty" and of all statutes and bylaws pertaining to the senate.
- Ensure that all published rules and bylaws within the senate's purview are up to date, and recommend their republication at such intervals as may be desirable.
- Make recommendations for the revision of the procedural rules of the senate.
- Before senate action, the committee shall receive all proposed new rules and changes in existing rules. It shall review them and recommend such editorial or other changes it deems necessary to avoid conflict with other rules, to enhance clarity and precision, and to avoid ambiguity.
- Initiate rules or changes in existing rules and recommend them to the steering committee for scheduling for senate action.
(D) Organization
As an organizing committee of the senate, this committee is also governed by the provisions of rules 3335-5-46 and 3335-5-47 of the Administrative Code.
(Board approval dates: 5/1/1986, 7/11/1986, 2/5/1988, 2/4/1993, 11/4/1994, 5/3/1996, 2/2/2001, 6/7/2005, 5/14/2010, 6/6/2014, 5/31/2019)