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25.		(a)		The Committee on Academic Priorities shall consist of the Provost and Dean of the Faculty (Chair) (nonvoting), five members of the faculty, three of whom shall be tenured members representing each of the three divisions, elected for staggered terms of three years, the Associate Provost and Dean for Academic Development (nonvoting), the Dean of the College (nonvoting), and one member of Faculty Council (nonvoting), who shall be named by Council to serve as liaison between Faculty Council and the Committee on Academic Priorities and be eligible to participate in all the business of the Committee on Academic Priorities. Faculty members elected to the Committee on Academic Priorities for a three year term shall have agreed, to the extent that it is practical, to serve all three years of the terms for which they are elected. Elected members who have served a full term shall be ineligible to serve for consecutive terms. Faculty members elected to substitute for elected members on leave or who have resigned shall be eligible for election to a full term after a period equal to their time of substitute service has elapsed.
(b)				The Committee on Academic Priorities shall establish the educational and curricular priorities of the College, and shall engage in systematic, long-range curricular planning. The Committee shall solicit, generate and review new academic initiatives, and shall periodically assess ongoing programs to insure that they continue to contribute to the academic priorities of the College. The Provost and Dean of the Faculty shall consult regularly with the Committee about plans and decisions regarding faculty appointments. This consultation shall include both long-range planning for the number, type and distribution of faculty appointments, and yearly authorizations for hiring into tenure-track appointments. The Provost and Dean of the Faculty shall inform the Committee of all requests for tenure-track positions received from departments and programs, and shall make available to the Committee all the information received concerning those requests. The Committee shall establish and review the fundamental educational policies of the College. It shall serve as an appeal board when individual faculty, departments and programs require exceptions to educational policies legislated by the faculty and administered by the various officers of the College. The Committee shall determine the standards and policies for the College's programs of interdepartmental, independent and graduate study, and for departmental and program honors. The Committee shall oversee the decennial and midterm reviews of departments and programs. In addition, the Committee shall undertake whatever studies and assessments it deems necessary for carrying out its mandates, including ad hoc meetings with departments and programs, or their representatives.
(c)				The Committee on Academic Priorities shall meet at least twice each year with the Committee on Mission and Priorities to discuss the long-range financial and staffing implications of academic priorities. In addition, the Committee shall meet at least twice each year with the Student Curriculum Committee.
(d)				The Committee shall receive detailed reports and/or meet annually with the committees and administrative staff concerned with the maintenance of academic standards for established academic programs and Interterm.
(e)				The Committee shall through its (sub) Committee on Study Abroad oversee the academic programs and standards for study abroad under the College's own Junior Year Abroad programs, the consortial study abroad programs in which the College participates, and the Approved Study Abroad Program.
(f)				The Provost and Dean of the Faculty (or designate) shall provide a report of the deliberations of the Committee on Academic Priorities at the regular monthly meetings of the faculty.
(g)				Elected faculty members who serve three successive years on the Committee shall receive one semester of credit toward the total number of teaching semesters required for eligibility for the next sabbatical. Next