The Faculty Senate is the representative body of the Faculty Assembly designed primarily to express the views of the teaching and research members of the faculty. It is one branch of the “shared governance” of Texas Christian University.

Views may be expressed upon any matter affecting the university, including educational policies, degree requirements, curricula, questions of academic freedom, student-faculty relations, faculty-administration relations, and practices of the University. Resolutions and recommendations voted by the Faculty Senate are passed on to the Provost and Chancellor and, when appropriate, the Board of Trustees.