Portland State University
PA-3: Governance

ASPSU welcomes all students to be involved and participate in the Senate, Judicial Board and many other committees who serve PSU Students. ASPSU: Advocate for and represent the interest of students before internal and external bodies; Facilitate formal needs of communication and interaction between students, student organizations, faculty and University administration; Identify and develop services not offered by other divisions of the University; Provide a process for students to fully participate in the allocation of student incidental fees. This Student Fee Committee is composed of 8 members and is responsible for recommending the allocation of the Student Fee to the ASPSU Student Government and the University President. It is the job of the SFC to allocate money to student funded programs and services that further the cultural and physical development of the students at large. There are student members on the board of trustees.

Before the first regular Board meeting of the calendar year, the Secretary of the Board will poll trustees for comments and recommendations to nominate either current officers for re-election or new officers for election to one-year officer terms to begin July 1. The Secretary will notify nominees of their nomination, inform them of Board officers’ responsibilities, and confirm nominees’ willingness to serve. The Secretary will report these findings to the Executive and Audit Committee. At the first regular Board meeting of the calendar year, the Executive and Audit Committee will make recommendations to the Board regarding the election or re-election of Board officers. Officers are elected by a simple majority of those present at the first Board meeting of the calendar year, a quorum being present. Nominations may be made at the time of election. Election will be by written ballot upon the request of any two (2) trustees present at the election. The one-year terms of incoming officers will begin on July 1. Officers will continue in office until their successors are elected. No officer will be eligible for election to more than two (2)consecutive full one-year terms in the same office.

There is one student on the Board of Trustees, as well as project teams for the President's strategic planning process. All students were invited to participate in a current campus strategic planning process by providing feedback. Students also shape programming, planning, and use of resources through the Student Fee Committee and ASPSU. Students were also able to take part in the Provost's ReThink program which worked to design new academic programs and certifications.

Faculty Senate: The Faculty shall consist of the Chancellor, the President of Portland State University, and all persons who hold State Board appointments with the rank of professor, associate professor, assistant professor, or instructor, and whose full-time equivalent is at least fifty percent teaching, research, or administration at Portland State University. Unranked members of Portland State University who are certified by the Provost to have academic qualifications sufficient to justify appointment at one of the above mentioned ranks, whose primary responsibility is for such fundamental areas as curriculum, subject matter, and methods of instruction, research, faculty status, and those aspects of student life that relate to the education process, and whose full-time equivalent is at least fifty percent teaching, research, or administration at Portland State University shall also be included in the faculty regardless of title. The University Faculty reserves the right to elect to membership any person who is employed full-time by the Oregon University System. From Article II, PSU Faculty Constitution. http://www.pdx.edu/faculty-senate/home

Before the first regular Board meeting of the calendar year, the Secretary of the Board will poll trustees for comments and recommendations to nominate either current officers for re-election or new officers for election to one-year officer terms to begin July 1. The Secretary will notify nominees of their nomination, inform them of Board officers’ responsibilities, and confirm nominees’ willingness to serve. The Secretary will report these findings to the Executive and Audit Committee. At the first regular Board meeting of the calendar year, the Executive and Audit Committee will make recommendations to the Board regarding the election or re-election of Board officers. Officers are elected by a simple majority of those present at the first Board meeting of the calendar year, a quorum being present. Nominations may be made at the time of election. Election will be by written ballot upon the request of any two (2) trustees present at the election. The one-year terms of incoming officers will begin on July 1. Officers will continue in office until their successors are elected. No officer will be eligible for election to more than two (2)consecutive full one-year terms in the same office.