Academic Purview

Lesley faculty - core, management, and adjunct - are responsible for setting academic standards, for awarding academic credit, and for recommending conferral of degrees when those standards are met. The faculty has primary responsibility for deciding the academic standards and integrity of such fundamental areas as curriculum, subject matter, methods, design and models of delivery of instruction.

Lesley faculty, including management faculty, have primary responsibility for the content, quality, and effectiveness of the curriculum. Faculty have a substantive voice in matters of educational programs, faculty personnel, and other aspects of institutional policy that relate to their areas of responsibility and expertise.

Inherent in the responsibilities of the faculty is a duty to preserve and transmit the values of academic standards and integrity through example in their own academic pursuits, and through the learning environments that faculty create for students. As part of creating a strong and unique learning environment, the faculty body is also responsible for mentoring of adjunct professors, instructors and graduate teaching fellows.

The University’s Provost is directly responsible to the President, and in concert with the faculty and other academic administrators, is responsible for the quality of the academic program. The University’s organization and governance structure assure the integrity and quality of academic programming however and wherever offered. Off-campus, continuing education, distance education, correspondence education, international, evening, and weekend programs are clearly integrated and incorporated into the policy formation, academic oversight, and evaluation system of the University.

The power of review or final decision for academic matters is lodged in the governing board or delegated by it to the President and Provost. The President and/or the Provost will give careful consideration before overriding faculty decisions and the President and/or the Provost’s reasons will be communicated in a timely fashion to the faculty. The faculty shall, following such communication, have opportunity for further consideration and further transmittal of its views to the President or the Provost.

The above enumeration of academic purview is not exhaustive and does not exclude other areas of academic purview not specified above.