The University at Buffalo Faculty Senate serves as an independent governance body representing the voting faculty on educational policies as stipulated in the Bylaws of the Voting Faculty, the Charter of the Faculty Senate, and the Standing Orders of the Faculty Senate. The University at Buffalo Faculty Senate currently represents more than 1,700 full-time voting faculty. The Faculty Senate has thirteen standing committees that do a herculean amount of work for the senate.

-Dr. Philip L. Glick, Chair of the Faculty Senate