The Texas Tech University System Board of Regents has created and adopted rules for the creation of faculty senates on each of the five component universities.

This comes after the Texas Legislature passed Senate Bill 37 , which is aimed at moving control of the faculty senate under the discretion of the university's governing boards and the university pres idents.

The Lubbock Avalanche-Journal was able to obtain an advance copy of the new rules and guidelines that would allow the formation of faculty senates. Here's a look at what the rules from the TTU System stipulate and how current faculty senates operate at the five universities in the system.

Regents' rules restrict faculty senates to comply with new state law

Entitled Texas Tech University Regulation 07.20, the Board of Reg

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