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2013 SESSION
13100828DBe it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:
1. That §§ 23-9.2:4.1 and 23-9.2:5 of the Code of Virginia are amended and reenacted as follows:
§ 23-9.2:4.1. Faculty representatives to the State Board for Community Colleges, local community college boards, and boards of visitors.
A. The State Board for Community Colleges, local community
college boards, and the boards of visitors of any four-year state
public institution of higher education may shall appoint one
or more nonvoting, advisory faculty representatives to their respective boards.
In the case of local community college boards and boards of visitors, the
representatives appointed by the boards shall be chosen from individuals
elected by the faculty or the institution's faculty senate or other
equivalent group of the relevant institution. In the case of the State Board
for Community Colleges, representatives appointed by the Board shall be chosen
from individuals elected by the Chancellor's Faculty Advisory Committee. Such
representatives shall be appointed to serve terms of not less than one 12-month
period, which shall be coterminous with the institution's fiscal year, or for
such terms as may be mutually agreed to by the State Board for Community
Colleges and the Chancellor's Faculty Advisory Committee, or by the local
community college board or the board of visitors, as the case may be, and the
institution's faculty senate or other equivalent group.
B. Nothing in this section shall prohibit the State Board for
Community Colleges, local community college boards, or any boards of visitors
from excluding such representatives from discussions of faculty grievances,
faculty or staff disciplinary matters, or salaries, or other matters, at
the discretion of the relevant board.
§ 23-9.2:5. Student representatives to boards of visitors.
A. The board of visitors of any four-year state
public institution of higher education shall appoint one or more students
as nonvoting, advisory representatives. Such representatives shall be
appointed under such circumstances chosen from individuals elected by
the institution's student [ body, student ] government, or other
equivalent group of the relevant institution and serve for such terms as
the board of visitors of the institution shall prescribe.
B. Nothing in this section shall prohibit any board of visitors from excluding such representatives from discussions of faculty grievances, faculty or staff disciplinary matters or salaries, or other matters, at the discretion of the board.