Commentary: Purdue Senates govern Purdue’s curricula, not the Trustees Lafayette Journal & Courier View Comments EDITOR'S NOTE: The following is a commentary submitted to the Journal & Courier regarding the Purdue University Board of Trustees' proposed adoption of a graduation requirement without Faculty Senates' consent, according to the authors. Many faculty at Purdue are critically worried about the decision of the Purdue Board of Trustees to do two things: 1) vote to adopt an undergraduate graduation requirement without consent of the University Senate; and 2) apply it system-wide without engaging faculty at the regional campuses. That the graduation requirement is about civics literacy, when the Board is not following its own governance procedures, is a particularly vicious irony.