Documents
2025-26 Academic Year
- Faculty Senate Orientation Documents
- Frequently Asked Questions
- Introduction to the Faculty Senate: Jurisdiction, Procedure, and Committees
- Parliamentary Procedure: Guidance for Officers & Elected Members
- Procedure for Submitting Proposals
Faculty Senate Documents: Managing the Senate
- Constitution and Bylaws
- Faculty Senate Committee Agendas 2011-2012
- Faculty Senate Initial Committee Agendas 2010-2011
- Faculty Senate Initial Committee Agendas 2009-2010
- PCRRC Policy and Procedures Manual (Approved by faculty senate vote of 11/19/08; Chapter 2 revised by Faculty Senate vote on 10/16/19)
- PCRRC Appendix to Chapter 2 Process for Approval of New Academic Degree Programs (Approved by Faculty Senate vote on 10/16/19)
- Parliamentary Procedure Chart
- Quick-Start Document for Editing Faculty Senate Web Pages
Documents: Campus-wide Interest
- Faculty Senate Recommended Mid-semester Teaching Evaluation Form (Word Document)
- Campus Strategic Plan 2000-2005 (PDF)
- Faculty Handbook 1983
- Faculty Handbook 2003 See Motion to Adopt the Faculty Handbook dated April 2003 (Approved by vote of 48 for and 1 abstention)
- Faculty Handbook Draft 2006
- Shared Governance Policy: University of Maine
- Statement on Shared Governance: UMS Board of Trustees
- University of Maine System Statement of Policy Governing Patents and Copyrights (pdf)
- Faculty Partner Accommodation Program
- UMaine Retention & Graduation Rates 1997-2011 & Retention Chart 1985-2011
2011-2012
- Strategic Implementation Plan for Enhancement of Research, Scholarship, and Creative Activity (Jan 2012)
- Faculty Responses to the UMaine Strategic Implementation Plan for Enhancement of Research, Scholarship, and Creative Activity (150 faculty survey responses, April 2012)
(pdf file) (Excel file) - The University of Maine Information Technology Strategic Plan (Final Draft 23 Feb 2012)
- Faculty Responses to the UMaine Information Technology Strategic Plan
(127 faculty survey responses, April 2012)
(pdf file) (Excel file) - University of Maine General Education Requirements – Revised (Approved April 2012 by Faculty Senate)
2012-2013
- Blue Sky Plan (2012)
- Board of Trustees Goals and Actions
- Asynchronous web-based courses at UMaine: From the students’ perspective (Oct 2012 Survey)
- Results from the UMaine New Student Survey (Oct 2012)
- Who Teaches What: Report (Oct 2012)
- Who Teaches What: Appendices (Oct 2012)
- University of Maine Brand Standards (Nov 2012)
- Improving the UMS Performance-Based Funding Approach by Faculty Senate (Nov 2012)
- Graduate School Presentation
- UMS Administrative Review:Information Technology Services (Jan 11, 2013)
- Poll of UMaine Faculty on Potential Work to Rule Actions
- Life After UMaine 2010-2011
- Commission on Regulation of Postsecondary Distance Education
- President Ferguson Blue Sky Progress Letter on Faculty Senate Priorities (4/14/2013)
- Provost Hunter on Academic Status of UMaine (Slides: 4/17/2013)
- Spread Sheet Images for Academic Status of UMaine (4/17/2013)
- Faculty Senate Annual Report for 2012-2013 (6/2013)
2013-2014
2014-2015
DOCUMENTS FOR FACULTY SENATE MEETINGS
2012 -2013 Documents for Meetings of the Full Faculty Senate
- 19 September 2012 Packet
- 17 October 2012 Packet
- 14 November 2012 Packet
- 12 December 2012 Packet
- 30 January 2013 Packet
- 27 February 2013 Packet
- 3 April 2013 Packet
- 1 May 2013 Packet
2013 – 2014 Documents for Meetings of the Full Faculty Senate
- 18 September 2013 Packet
- 16 October 2013 Packet
- 13 November 2013 Packet
- 18 December 2013 Packet
- 29 January 2014 Packet
- 26 February 2014 Packet
- 2 April 2014 Packet
- 30 April 2014 Packet
2015 – 2016 Documents
Public Statements
- Inaugural Address Welcoming Dr. Paul Ferguson as 19th President of the University of Maine, By Dr. Michael Grillo, President, Faculty Senate, University of Maine