---

For any questions please send e-mail to: NDSU.Policy.Manual@ndsu.edu

---

SECTION 714: POLICY COORDINATION COMMITTEE

SOURCE: NDSU President, SBHE Policy 305.1

1. A Policy Coordination Committee is established as a permanent, advisory committee to the President to coordinate the adoption of policies for their placement into the NDSU Policy Manual.

2. The membership of the Policy Coordination Committee is made up of the following individuals or their designees:
   1. Controller
   2. Executive Director, Chief Diversity Officer, Office for Equity & Diversity
   3. Director, Human Resources/Payroll
   4. General Counsel
   5. President Elect, Staff Senate
   6. President, Staff Senate
   7. President Elect, University Senate
   8. Provost/Vice President for Academic Affairs (President, University Senate)
   9. Vice President for Finance and Administration
   10. Vice President for Student Affairs
   11. Vice President for Agriculture and University Extension
   12. Vice President for Research, Creative Activities and Technology Transfer
       
   13. Vice President for University Relations
   14. Vice President for Information Technology
       
       

   The Vice President for Finance and Administration shall appoint the committee chair.

3. All policies of a permanent nature affecting the University as a whole should be published in the electronic NDSU Policy Manual. Before approval by the President and placement into the policy manual, such policies must be presented to the Policy Coordination Committee for review. Failure to present a policy to the Policy Coordination Committee will not invalidate a policy, but may result in unnecessary delay in its implementation or having a policy resubmitted to the proposing body or department for potential revisions. The Policy Coordination Committee does not approve or disapprove policies but advises the President on their placement in the manual and potential conflicts or problems created by the proposed policy, if any.

4. After a policy is reviewed by the Policy Coordination Committee and placed in policy manual format, it will be submitted to the President for approval. Following such approval the policy will be returned to the Office of the Vice President for Finance and Administration for distribution and publication in the manual (available on the NDSU web site at www.ndsu.edu/policy).

5. The President has the authority to adopt interim policies and procedures concerning matters for which legislative authority is delegated by the State Board of Higher Education to campus legislative bodies. Any adoption of an interim policy or procedure must include notice to the University Senate prior to or at the time the policy or procedure takes effect. Not later than six months of its effective date, the President shall present the interim policy or procedure to the University Senate for review and its decision, subject to the President's approval or veto, concerning whether the policy or procedure should be continued, revised or discontinued.

HISTORY: November 1992; Amended May 1996; January 1998; March 2002; February 2003, October 2004, May 2005, September 2007, January 2008.