About University Governance at KU

The structure of faculty, staff, and student participation in University government is based on the following charter, granted March 20, 1969, by the Board of Regents:

WHEREAS, for many years there has been in operation a validly created Senate of the University of Kansas composed of the faculties and staff of the University and a validly created All Student Council composed of representatives of the student body of the University; and

WHEREAS, it now seems desirable that the faculties, staff, and students of the University form a coordinated governmental structure;

NOW, THEREFORE, the Board of Regents of the State of Kansas hereby (1) approves the University of Kansas Senate Code duly adopted by the appropriate constituencies of the University and recommended to it by the Chancellor; (2) charters the various governmental bodies provided for in said Code as it may be amended from time to time with the approval of the Chancellor; and (3) decrees that this charter supersedes the Charter of the Senate of the University of Kansas of March 21, 1968.