11.1    The Faculty shall consist of the President, the Provost, the academic officers, the tenured and tenure-track faculty, and the Lecturer Ranks.  The tenured faculty shall consist of the Professors and tenured Associate Professors, and the tenure-track faculty shall consist of the non-tenured Associate Professors and Assistant Professors.  The Lecturer Ranks shall consist of the University Lecturers, Professors of the Practice, Senior Lecturers, Lecturers, Instructors, Lecturers with the Rank of Professor, and Lecturers with the Rank of Associate Professor.  The President, the Provost, the academic officers, the tenured and tenure-track faculty, and members of the Lecturer Ranks on full time appointment shall be entitled to vote at meetings of the Faculty and in any circumstances where votes of the Faculty are taken.

11.2    The tenured and tenure-track faculty, as specified in Section 11.1, shall be elected by the Board upon the recommendation of the Committee on Academic Affairs.

11.3    Members of the Lecturer Ranks, including holders of visiting appointments and secondary appointments in the Lecturer Ranks, shall be appointed by the President (who may delegate such power to the Dean of the Faculty).  When on full time appointment, holders of visiting appointments and members of the Professional Library, Research, and Specialist Staffs shall be entitled to attend each meeting of the Faculty but shall not be entitled to vote, except that members of the Professional Staffs who are assigned teaching duties and given the additional designation of “Lecturer with the rank of Professor” or “Lecturer with the rank of Associate Professor” shall be entitled to vote during the period of such additional designation.

11.4    The President, when present, shall preside at meetings of the Faculty.  In the President’s absence, the Provost shall preside.

11.5    The Faculty shall appoint certain of its members as a standing committee, who shall attend a conference with the Committee on Academic Affairs, as necessary, upon the call of the Chair of the said Faculty committee or the Chair of the Committee on Academic Affairs, or shall attend a conference with another standing or ad hoc Trustee committee, as necessary, upon the call of the President or the Chair of the Board, to consider such subjects as may be presented involving both administrative and educational matters.