The Senate Speaks Out on Anti-Racism, Chinese Visa Restrictions
The Faculty Senate addresses the concerns of faculty members, most recently through position statements on anti-racism and Chinese visa restrictions.
Get to Know Your Faculty Senate Representative
Share ideas about Faculty Senate initiatives. Voice your concerns or provide suggestions for issues you would like the senate to consider.
A Voice for Faculty
The Baylor College of Medicine Faculty Senate is the primary venue for faculty participation in shared governance and planning at the College.
Senate responsibilities include:
- Making recommendations to College administration on issues deemed to be important to the faculty
- Developing, evaluating and endorsing petitions, recommendations or resolutions from the faculty or others concerning faculty issues
- Appointing members to the College’s Institutional Policy Committee
- Nominating faculty to serve on senate and College committees
Education, faculty affairs and benefits, strategic planning, communications and public affairs, and administrative operations are the subjects of the senate's standing committees.
Faculty Senate Officers
Dr. Christie Lincoln
Chair
Dr. Kim Worley
Chair Elect
Dr. Jonnae Atkinson
Secretary
Dr. Steve Scherer
Basic Sciences Representative
Dr. Tamara Ortiz-Perez
Clinical Sciences Representative
Membership
The faculty senate has 101 voting members.
- Forty-four represent the College’s departments (at least one for each department with larger departments having proportionally more positions)
- Ten represent the College’s research/clinical centers (one for each center)
- Four represent the schools (one for each of the four schools)
- Seven represent the hospital affiliate sites (one for each of the affiliates)
- Thirty-six are at-large faculty members
Ex-officio officers: the College’s president, provost, the deans of each of the four schools and the past chair. Baylor’s general counsel serves as advisor to the senate.
TMC Library Resource
The TMC Library now has a dedicated page on the intranet (and a link under Resources in the intranet’s purple footer) to keep users updated on resource access issues. This information is made possible by the Faculty Senate Administrative Operations Committee, the Office of the Provost and the TMC Library.
Faculty Senate Information
You can find Faculty Senate minutes, committees, reports and resolutions on the senate's intranet site. (Baylor login required). The senate handbook, faculty handbook, faculty constitution, faculty bylaws and policies and procedures manual also are available through this site.
Faculty Handbook
This edition is a web-based compilation of the policies, procedures and resources pertaining to faculty members across all the College's mission areas. By linking to source documents, the handbook is intended to reference the most current information available.
Faculty News
Read Faculty Commons for the latest news for and about faculty members at Baylor College of Medicine. From need-to-knows to faculty kudos, research resources to events for clinicians, we've got you covered!
