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ROLE OF FACULTY, STAFF, AND STUDENTS

The expertise or viewpoints of individual faculty, staff, and students are frequently essential in developing assessments of the potential impact on the University of proposed legislation. In this context, when consistent with institutional objectives, the staff of the Office of Governmental Relations may facilitate direct communication to elected officials by University faculty, staff, and students.

While faculty, staff, and students are also free to communicate individually with elected representatives about their personal views, it is important that any communication which is not coordinated through the Office of Governmental Relations be carefully framed so as not to imply that the individual is communicating an institutional position or viewpoint on behalf of the University (see Operations Manual II-14 Use of University Name).

The Board of Regents is a group of nine citizen volunteers who govern the state’s three public universities and two special K-12 schools – the School for the Deaf and the Iowa Braille and Sight Saving School – through policymaking, coordination and oversight.