In order to foster an environment at Texas State University which promotes continual improvement toward excellence, the Faculty Senate has as its basic purposes:

• Advocating for faculty viewpoints on all issues in which faculty perceive themselves as stakeholders;
• Promoting communication between faculty and other groups on campus;
• Making recommendations on University policy and governance issues of concern to faculty;
• Soliciting faculty perceptions, suggestions, and recommendations;
• Seeking accurate data for use in advocating positions taken by faculty;
• Improving faculty salaries and working conditions;
• Facilitating budgetary education and assuring the opportunity for faculty participation in fiscal planning and decision making;
• Assuring appropriate faculty participation at all levels of University governance.