UNM-LA Faculty Constitution
In September, 2022, a meeting was held to discuss creating a new faculty governance structure for UNM-LA, with the intention to streamline faculty governance to make it less burdensome, while still ensuring a strong faculty voice. In response to the consensus at that meeting, our then Faculty Senator, Dr. Peninah Wolpo, consulted with the UNM Faculty Committee on Governance to determine how to proceed. The Committee on Governance recommended that the then Vice-President of the Faculty Assembly, Dr. Irina Alvestad, call for a vote on a draft constitution. On October 26th, 2022, seventy-nine percent of the voting faculty of UNM-LA, ratified this new faculty constitution, modeled on the UNM-Albuquerque constitution, creating a University Branch Faculty body, acting as a Committee of the Whole, with a smaller Faculty Operations Committee, with Temporary Part-time faculty representation, to carry on required day-to-day faculty operations.