FACULTY CONSTITUTION
PREAMBLE
We, the faculty of Pacific Lutheran University, acting under the authority and responsibilities delegated by the Board of Regents, cognizant of our professional responsibility to provide for the education of our students, and in order to define the qualifications and duties, privileges and obligations pertaining thereto; to establish a system of faculty governance; to prescribe the powers of the faculty in educational policy; to advise in educational fiscal policy; and to govern all our academic affairs more effectively in fulfillment of the Articles of Incorporation of the university and its stated educational goals, pledge our support to, and adopt this constitution.