Resolution 2025-2026-1
Call for Withdrawal from UCF’s 287(g) Agreement
The UCF Faculty Senate endorses the Florida Advisory Council of Faculty Senates Resolution on 287(g) Memoranda of Agreements between State University System Institution Campus Police Departments and United States Immigration and Customs Enforcement by also urging the University of Central Florida and the University of Central Florida Campus Police to withdraw from this 287(g) agreement.
Addendum 2025-2026-1
Florida Advisory Council of Faculty Senates Resolution on 287(g) Memoranda of Agreement
between State University System Institution Campus Police Departments and United States
Immigration and Customs Enforcement
The Advisory Council of Faculty Senates calls on State University System institutions to withdraw from the Memoranda of Agreement (MOA) signed by Florida’s public universities with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) under the 287(g) program. These partnerships are unnecessary and harmful to student, faculty, staff, and the broader communities our universities serve. To effectively protect our universities, campus police cultivate a unique relationship with campus communities. They come to know our students, our educational spaces, and our communities. They are present at peaceful protests, in classrooms, and at student events. Repurposing this unique trust for federal immigration enforcement makes our campuses less safe, puts our officers in an untenable position, and chills students’ access to the support services they critically need to succeed. The 287(g) agreements create an array of challenges, including the following.
- These agreements unnecessarily sacrifice campus safety. Engaging in immigration enforcement will require campus police to divide resources that need to be fully focused on the core issue of campus safety. Moreover, it will undermine the hard-earned trust they need to work effectively with our communities in ensuring campus safety. Recent events in Florida highlight, more than ever, the need to maintain Campus Police focus on critical safety activities and on ensuring that campus populations trust them enough to share safety and security concerns.
- With these agreements in place, every individual on campus – even citizens – will need to carry papers documenting their legal status at all times to avoid the possibility of immigration detention. These MOAs empower a campus police officer to detain any individual based solely on the officer’s belief regarding their immigration status and without a warrant [287 (g) Task Force Model MOA, Section V]. The recent detention of a Hispanic United States citizen by Florida law enforcement at ICE’s request illustrates the reality that even U.S. citizen students, faculty, and staff will face the possibility of detention by campus police acting at ICE’s direction.
- These agreements risk chilling students’ willingness to seek medical, mental health, and educational support services at our institutions out of fear of ICE-affiliated police presence. In a post-COVID era in which students have become increasingly isolated, engagement with these services and with the university community is more critical than ever in enabling student success – the core mission of our institutions.
- The fear of ICE-aligned immigration actions by campus police that is created by these MOAs erodes the environment of trust and safety needed for effective student learning and free expression. Students and scholars living in continual fear that campus police may engage in arbitrary immigration-oriented actions cannot effectively learn, create new ideas, speak freely, and innovate – the very activities at the heart of our Universities’ missions.
- These agreements are not necessary for the federal government to enforce immigration law. ICE and other federal and state agencies already possess broad authority to operate independently.
For all of these reasons, we call on the Board of Governors of the State University System to urge
Florida Universities to withdraw from these agreements.
- Approved by the Faculty Senate Steering Committee on April 23, 2025
- Approved by the Faculty Senate on September 4, 2025
- Submitted to Provost Michael D. Johnson for action on April 25, 2025
- Denied by Provost Michael D. Johnson on May 8, 2025 with the following comments:
“When any law enforcement agency operates within our jurisdiction, the UCF police department liaises with them. The 287 (g) MOU only engages the UCF police when ICE comes to campus.”
Resolution 2025-2026-2
Constitution and Bylaw Amendments: Faculty Senate Membership Expansion from 75 to 100 Senators
Whereas, Article II.A of the Constitution of the Faculty of the University of Central Florida establishes the membership of the Faculty Senate as seventy-five (75) elected members; and
Whereas, increasing the size of the Faculty Senate from seventy-five (75) to one hundred (100) would improve representation and shared governance by more accurately reflecting the growth and breadth of the university’s faculty; and
Whereas, implementing a 25-seat expansion in a single year would result in an imbalance in the Senate’s staggered election cycle, causing 35 senators to be elected in one year and 65 in the next, placing uneven burdens on academic units and creating volatility in Senate membership and year to year overlap; and
Whereas, phasing in additional seats over two years (10 seats in 2026 and 15 seats in 2027) will establish a long-term, balanced system in which approximately 50 senators are elected each year, preserving balance and stability across academic units; therefore
Be It Resolved, that Article II.A of the Constitution and Section II.B of the Bylaws shall be amended to state that the Faculty Senate shall be composed of one hundred (100) elected members; and
Be It Further Resolved, that all formulas and language in the Bylaws that currently use seventy-five (75) as the total number of senators shall be updated to use one hundred (100); and
Be It Further Resolved, that the Faculty Senate shall implement a phased expansion as outlined in the Proviso below, and this Proviso, in its entirety, shall be added below the list of Constitution and Bylaw amendments until such time as the Proviso conditions are completed after spring 2027 senate elections.
Proviso on Phased Senate Membership Expansion:
Even though the apportionment provisions stated in Article II.B of the Constitution and Section II.B of the Bylaws describe how Senate seats should be divided and calculated, the total number of elected Faculty Senate members shall be increased in two phases:
Phase 1: In spring 2026, the number of elected senators shall be increased from 75 to 85. The 10 additional seats shall be apportioned among academic units using the existing formula and constraints in the Constitution and Bylaws.
Phase 2: In spring 2027, the number of elected senators shall be increased from 85 to 100. The 15 additional seats shall likewise be apportioned using the existing formula and constraints in the Constitution and Bylaws.
The full apportionment system using a base of 100 senators shall take effect with the spring 2027 elections. All elected senators shall be subject to the regular eligibility, election, and term procedures as outlined in the Constitution and Bylaws.
- Approved by the Faculty Senate Steering Committee on September 18, 2025.
- Approved by the Faculty Senate on October 2, 2025.
- Submitted to Provost on January 16, 2026
Resolution 2025-2026-3
Bylaws Amendment: Faculty Senate Student Success Council
Whereas, student success encompasses a broad array of departments, programs, initiatives, and policies that require administration and faculty working together to help our students complete their studies and prepare for the future; and
Whereas, the faculty at UCF have a critical role in guiding and enhancing the success of our students as they take classes and progress through degree programs; and
Whereas, the Faculty Senate Student Success Council that was created in Spring of 2023 had a large membership, with 36 council members, of which only 12 were faculty; and
Whereas, the original Duties and Responsibilities of the Faculty Senate Student Success Council included areas that were already the focus of other Faculty Senate committees; and
Whereas, the voting members of the Faculty Senate Student Success Council have considered and debated how changes to the Council Bylaws couldenhance the consideration and open discussion of issues and ideas between faculty and the Vice President for Student Success and Well-Being; therefore
Be It Resolved, that the Bylaws of the Faculty Senate Student Success Council be amended as detailed below:
1. Duties and Responsibilities
a. To promote the development and implementation of programs, policies, including admission policies, and practices that help students succeed in their academic pursuits and personal wellbeing.
b. To advise and assist the Division of Student Success and Well-Being (SSWB), and other relevant councils/committees/units/ departments/ individuals in developing student success and well-being focused initiatives and recommending actions to meet student success goals.
c. To review and monitor the performance and progress of state performance- based funding, preeminence, and other strategic student success metrics that are important for UCF and its students.
d. To serve as an advisory and recommending body for the Faculty Senate on strategies and procedures that relate to student success and well-being.
e. To support and collaborate with programs, units, initiatives and offices across UCF to help facilitate student success and well-being efforts.
2. Membership
The voting members of the Faculty Senate Student Success Council shall consist of at least one faculty member from each academic unit (selected by the Committee on Committees), at least two of whom are current members of the Faculty Senate, and two students (nominated by the president of the Student Government Association).
The regularly invited ex officio (non-voting) members of the committee will include the vice president for Student Success and Well-Being, the Vice President for Access & Community Engagement or designee, one representative of the Student Success and Well-Being Executive Team (selected by the vice president for Student Success and Well-Being), one representative from the College of Graduate Studies (appointed by the Dean of the College of Graduate Studies), and one representative from the Office of Undergraduate Studies (selected by the senior vice provost of academic affairs or designee).
The vice president for Student Success and Well-Being (or designee) shall invite others from SSWB or other entities to participate in meetings when their presence is germane to the topics of discussion for a particular gathering. The chair and vice chair shall be elected annually from the council’s faculty membership. Terms of service shall be two years, staggered
- Approved by the Faculty Senate Steering Committee on September 18, 2025.
- Approved by the Faculty Senate on November 6, 2025.
- Submitted to Provost on January 16, 2026