The current APP states that “amendments and modifications to these academic personnel policies may be recommended by the appropriate UMass Chan Medical School faculty governance bodies prior to submission to the Trustees”. This statement can be interpreted to mean that amendment of the APP requires discussion and approval by Faculty and Executive Councils. No faculty vote is required according to the current APP. But, because major campus documents like the APP and the campus Governance Document are a product of shared governance, and to be consistent between all such documents, it was decided that the approval process for the revised APP would follow the process defined for the campus Governance Document, which includes approval by a simple majority vote of the Faculty-at-Large. This process has been written into the revised APP.