From its founding in 1881 as a college, Marquette University has evolved into one of the largest Jesuit universities comprising 11 colleges and professional schools serving 11,500 students.

Just as the ownership, size and complexity of the institution have changed over the past 125 years, the governance pattern has moved toward increased faculty collaboration, particularly in recent decades as a larger number of lay faculty have joined a decreasing number of Jesuits in carrying out the mission of the university.

Marquette University's University Academic Senate (UAS) serves as a deliberative body with responsibilities for academic policy formulation of an all-university character and for the review and evaluation of academic programs and academic planning.

 

University Academic Senate

• Statutes for the University Academic Senate (last revised Sept. 21, 2009)
• Bylaws for the University Academic Senate (last revised Mar. 10, 2008)

 

Approved Committee Minutes:

       

• University Academic Senate (UAS)
• Faculty Council
• University Board of Graduate Studies (UBGS)
• University Board of Undergraduate Studies (UBUS)
• Committee on Academic Policies and Issues (CAPI)
• Committee on Faculty Welfare (CFW)
  • Subcomittee on Equity (SE)
  • Subcommittee on Part-time Faculty (SPTF)
• Committee on Research
• University Library Board

SHARED GOVERNANCE AT MARQUETTE

Task Force on Faculty Governance

• Final Report
  
  
• Report of the Joint Academic Senate/Committee on Faculty Task Force on Shared Governance       

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Research and Scholarships

Over the past four years, Marquette faculty have increased external research funding to 36 percent. See what our experts and students are currently researching from unraveling the mysteries of proteins, to why child's play is history, and much more.