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Committee on Rules and Jurisdiction (CRJ)

Committee Chair: Cindy Archer
Committee Analyst: Stephanie Makhlouf

Requests for review submitted by the 20th of each month will be reviewed by CRJ during the following calendar month.

Membership
The Committee on Rules and Jurisdiction shall consist of five Division members.

Duties
The duties of this Committee shall be:

  1. Publish and edit the Manual of the Irvine Division of the Academic Senate when necessary, under the guidance of the University Committee on Rules and Jurisdiction.
  2. Review legislation to be presented for action to the Divisional Senate Assembly by agencies or members of the Division to verify and to ensure the conformity of such proposed legislation with the format and content of the Code of the Academic Senate.
  3. Review Faculties’ bylaws and regulations to verify and ensure conformity with the format and content of the Code of the Academic Senate, prior to their submission as informational items to the Division and adoption as appendices to the Manual of the Irvine Division of the Academic Senate.
  4. Advise the Chair of the Division as to whether proposed legislation is solely of Divisional concern.
  5. Make editorial and conforming non-substantive changes in the Manual of the Irvine Division of the Academic Senate.
  6. Advise the Division, its Officers, Committees, Faculties, and members in all matters of organization, jurisdiction, and interpretation of legislation of the Academic Senate and its agencies.
  7. Issue, upon a formal request from a member of the Division, legislative rulings interpreting the Code of the Irvine Division of the Academic Senate (defined in IBL 175). Such rulings shall have the status of legislation until modified by legislative or Regental action. Rulings of the Committee in these matters must be published in the call for the first regular Divisional Senate Assembly meeting following the Committee’s decision, and all rulings of the Committee on Rules and Jurisdiction not superseded by legislative or Regental action shall appear in an Appendix of the Manual of the Irvine Division of the Academic Senate.
  8. Instruct the University Registrar on behalf of the Division with respect to disposition of the University Registrar’s responsibilities in administering the Regulations of the Academic Senate and its agencies.
  9. Hear an appeal which contends that a committee has acted contrary to the Code of the Academic Senate [defined in SBL 80]. Such appeal shall be submitted in writing by no fewer than ten (10) initiators of the appeal (SBL 206B), without limitation of time, to the Divisional Committee on Rules and Jurisdiction, which shall hear both sides, orally or in writing or both, before reaching a decision. The Committee on Rules and Jurisdiction shall report its findings to a meeting of the Division and to the University Committee on Rules and Jurisdiction. Either the plaintiffs or the defendants may then ask the latter committee to consider the issue. A decision of the University Committee on Rules and Jurisdiction, if rendered, shall be final. If that Committee decides not to hear the issue, the decision of the Divisional Committee on Rules and Jurisdiction shall stand.
  10. Maintain liaison with the University Committee on Rules and Jurisdiction.

Subcommittees: None

Policies and Procedures:

The Academic Senate is governed by the Code of the Academic Senate, which comprises: