Each faculty member is a member of a learned profession and an academic member of the University responsible for the mastery of and a continuing commitment to a subject discipline, the competent transmission of it to students, and the exercise of professional judgment concerning curriculum, instructional content and methods, research, faculty status, and those aspects of student life which relate to the educational process. Faculty members of each department of the College and of the Schools are responsible to the Dean of those academic units for the orderly and competent conduct of classes within the department or the school concerned.