Approving committee policy changes

[Guest Dan O'Neill]

A standing committee has enacted several new policy changes.  Doen't the committee need to propose a new policy to the full membership of the

organization, in this case the university senate before the policy change can go into effect?

[Josh Martin]

A standing committee has enacted several new policy changes.  Doen't the committee need to propose a new policy to the full membership of the

organization, in this case the university senate before the policy change can go into effect?

 

Generally, yes. Committees don't have the authority to act on their own unless they have been authorized to do so by the parent assembly or the society's rules.