The Faculty Senate voted yesterday to recommend postponing approval of Arizona International Campus programs until guidelines and regulations for the new campus comply with UA policies.

The Senate voted to require the new campus to follow UA and regent policies for hiring faculty, offering programs and courses, and other campus activities, backing a Committee of Eleven resolution released last month.

In that resolution, the committee, a faculty committee within the Senate, declared the new campus' administration in violation of university and regents' policies because it had created multi-year contracts for faculty rather than provide tenure and had established a curriculum without academic department approval.

The Faculty Senate will forward its decision to the administration, who can consider or ignore it, said Faculty Senator Fredrick Hill, professor of electrical and computer engineering.

The Senate, he said, only has decision-making power on curriculum issues.

The question of whether policies were violated depends largely on whether AIC is a "branch campus" of the UA or an independent institution.

The committee's resolution says it is a branch, citing the Arizona Board of Regents' decision to name it Arizona International Campus of the UA last year.

But President Manuel Pacheco disagreed with that interpretation. AIC, he said, falls under the "umbrella" of the UA, but does not meet the requirements to be a branch campus.

Brach campuses are required to gain approval on curricula and faculty hiring practices from appropriate UA departments.

Some senators went even further with their criticism, questioning the need for a new campus altogether.

Sen. Edward Williams, political science professor and chair of the Senate's oversight committee looking into AIC, denounced the new campus, citing problems with the tenure issue and describing its site near the Microsoft Corp. as an "unmitigated catastrophe."

Robert Feltham, chemistry professor, said, "There is no educational or economic reason for putting this campus into being."

But Pacheco supported the new campus, saying enrollment at Arizona universities will only increase with no new universities to house students.

According to a study conducted by the Arizona Board of Regents, the UA can expect nearly 150 more students per year to its already-capped student population.

In another matter, the Faculty Senate postponed further discussion on co-governance pending a review of two documents by committees comprised of faculty and administration.

Rather than adopting a declaration prepared by the Committee of Eleven that outlines principles for co-governance, the majority of the Senate voted to synthesize two statements on the issue.

Co-governance would require participation from faculty and administration in governing the university. The Faculty Senate drafted a proposal for creating a system of co-governance early last semester but are still negotiating among themselves and with administrators on the specifics.

An ad hoc task force will review the Committee of Eleven declaration and another document, created by the Co-Governance Working Group, made up of administrators and faculty, that outlines principles and guidelines and merge common elements, such as approval of new faculty administrators, from the two documents.

The new combined document will go to the Academic Personnel Policy Committee, a committee within the Faculty Senate that also includes some administrators, for review and the committee will later recommend whether the Faculty Senate should approve it.

Sen. Marlys Witte, a surgery professor, said she does not want the administration involved in the raw decision-making process of co-governance policy and condemned the formation of hybrid committees to review the documents.

"We are undermining the faculty governing body. We're not here to be given guidelines," she said.

Sen. Miklos Szilagyi, electrical and computer engineering professor, said he objected to the review. He said he saw the Committee of Eleven document as a set of principles that should not be tampered with by other committees.

"We do not have to get permission to have these principles. Let us declare what we believe," he said.

But Sen. Jacqueline Sharkey, journalism professor, praised the willingness of the administration to work with the faculty on the issue. She encouraged the Senate to take advantage of the cooperative effort of the administration to ensure faculty voices in academic decisions.

In other matters, the Senate voted to change the name of the College of Arts and Sciences to University College and voted to develop a procedure to inform Arizona Community Colleges of changes in UA undergraduate lower-division courses and requirements.