More than four years after Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute suspended its Faculty Senate, faculty members on the New York campus will soon once more have a voice in the institution’s governance.
The faculty approved a new senate constitution on Friday—in at least its fourth attempt to rebuild shared governance since 2007—after talks with the university’s board, provost, and president. It was the senate’s near vote of no confidence in the president, Shirley Ann Jackson, that some said had prompted the suspension in 2007.
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