Academic senate
![A meeting of the Academic Senate at [[Georgia Southern University](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/2/2d/GeorgiaSouthernUniversityFacultySenateMeetingNovember2008.jpg)
Models of university governance can be unitary (also called unicameral) or dual (also called bicameral). Unicameral models may involve leadership by either an academic senate-type body or, more commonly, a lay-led board/council-type body. In this arrangement, a senate-type body may still exist but in an advisory role to the board-type body that has full responsibility for governance. Bicameral models almost always involve both a senate and a board; these can be 'traditional' with the two bodies have distinct but equally important portfolios, typically a senate-type body having responsibility for academic matters and a board-type body having responsibility for finance and strategy, or 'asymmetric' with one body (typically the board) being dominant in the decision-making process. Provided by Wikipedia
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