We, the faculty of Le Moyne College, regard ourselves as a Faculty Senate to function as the instrument whereby we may properly discharge our professional responsibilities in the governance of the College. Realizing that the variety and complexity of the tasks performed by institutions of higher education produce an inescapable interdependence among governing board, administration, faculty, students and others, we wish by this Senate to achieve a more effective means of faculty contribution to the cooperative formulation of policies and procedures applicable to the total educational effort of the College. We bear in mind not only the welfare of the faculty itself, but also the best interests of students and alumni, and the corresponding prerogatives and obligations, in these matters, of the administration. Working through the Faculty Senate, then, in the spirit of mutual assistance and cooperation with all other bodies and agencies of Le Moyne College, we address ourselves and our labors to the general welfare of the College and the goal of excellence toward which it strives.