The Bloomington Faculty Council (BFC) is a representative body of elected members from the Bloomington campus of Indiana University. During the early 1970s, Indiana University experienced a reorganization of the system administration which created a University Faculty Council responsible for faculty governance of the eight IU campuses and a Bloomington Faculty Council responsible for faculty governance on the Bloomington campus. With the adoption of the Constitution of the Bloomington Faculty of Indiana University on May 6, 1975, the authority of faculty members on the Bloomington campus was solidified.

The Constitution of the BFC affords the faculty legislative and consultative authority over the following matters:

• The campus academic mission
• The faculty governance structure
• Academic matters affecting more than one school on the campus
• The academic calendar
• Creation, reorganization, merger, and elimination of programs and units affecting more than one school on the campus
• Appointment, promotion and tenure, compensation, conduct and discipline, and grievances of campus faculty
• Appointment and review of campus academic officers and administrative officers affecting the academic mission
• Campus facilities and budgets
• Student conduct and discipline
• Intercollegiate and intramural athletics
• Other matters affecting the academic mission of the campus
• Academic programs not within the authority of a school faculty. In such cases the campus faculty exercises the same authority as would be vested in a school faculty.

Similar authority has been afforded the individual school faculties (i.e. College of Arts and Sciences, School of Library and Information Science, etc.). These school faculties, in turn, may delegate authority to faculties of departments, divisions, or other academic units. The authority of the Bloomington faculty has been delegated to a body of elected representatives called the Bloomington Faculty Council. The BFC maintains a committee structure where most policy, legislative, and consultative authority is exercised. Committees are comprised of both elected BFC members and volunteer members from among the faculty, students and staff. The following is a list of current BFC committees:

• Agenda Committee
• Budgetary Affairs Committee
• Constitution and Rules Committee
• Distributed Education Committee
• Diversity and Affirmative Action Committee
• Educational Policies Committee
• Faculty Affairs Committee
• Foundation Relations Committee
• Fringe Benefits Committee
• Library Committee
• Nomination Committee
• Research Affairs Committee
• Student Academic Appointee Affairs Committee
• Student Affairs Committe
• Technology Policies Committee

Nominations for BFC members occur in the fall semester for the following academic year and elections occur each spring for faculty council members.

Officers. The officers of the Bloomington Faculty Council include the Presiding Officer (the IU Bloomington Provost), the President Pro Tempore, the Secretary, the Parliamentarian, and three Agenda Committee members. The President, Secretary, Parliamentarian, and Agenda Committee members are elected from among the elected Council members each spring.

Representation of the Faculty and Librarian Units. The following units have representation on the BFC:

• College of Arts and Sciences (divided into sub-units)
• Kelley School of Business
• School of Education
• School of Health, Physical Education, and Recreation
• School of Journalism
• Maurer School of Law
• School of Library and Information Science
• School of Music
• School of Optometry
• School of Public and Environmental Affairs
• Library
• School of Informatics & Computing
• Other Bloomington Faculty from smaller academic units

In addition, there are at-large campus representatives, clinical, lecturer, research and Emeriti faculty representatives, administrative representatives, graduate and undergraduate student representatives, an ROTC representative, and a professional council representative included as voting members of the BFC.

The Bloomington Faculty Council operates within the established faculty governance structure and guidelines approved by the University Faculty Council (UFC). The UFC has membership from across the eight IU campuses and the University President is the presiding officer, with the Bloomington Faculty Council President and the IUPUI Faculty Council President presiding as Co-Secretaries of the University Faculty Council. There are currently fifteen representatives from Bloomington on the University Faculty Council.