The APP is a comprehensive document that defines the academic personnel policies for all UMass Chan faculty. The concept of shared governance means that major campus documents like the APP and the campus Governance Document should be accepted and approved by the administration and by the faculty as a whole. To achieve that goal, it is essential that the APP revision is fully discussed—and concerns answered—before a vote by the faculty. To break the APP into parts to be voted on by particular groups of faculty would be difficult, divisive and not in the best interests of shared governance.