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POLICY: |
STUDENT REPRESENTATION ON FACULTY AND SCHOOL COUNCILS AND DEPARTMENTAL COMMITTEES |
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Effective Date: |
April 7, 1970 |
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Revised Date: |
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Review Date: |
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Approving Body: |
Senate |
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Authority: |
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Implementation: |
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Contact: |
University Secretary |
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Applies to: |
Academic Staff and Students |
The following Senate regulations governing student representation on faculty and school councils and departmental committees are minimum requirements and are not to be taken as guidelines:
- A. There shall be a minimum of three students included on each faculty and school council.
- B. There shall be established in each faculty and school an ad hoc committee (unless a standing committee of this character already exists) composed of fifty per cent students whose purpose shall be to recommend to the faculty or school council concerned:
- the number of students, over and above three, to sit on faculty and school councils;
- any limitations upon full student participation on faculty or school councils including any limitations on voting rights;
- the faculty or school committees upon which students are to be represented, the number of representatives thereon, and any limitations upon full student participation, including any limits on voting rights;
- the method of selection of student representatives on faculty or school councils and committees thereof.
- Notes:
- Graduate students are eligible to serve on this committee;
- Students are to be selected by the Student Council of the faculty or school concerned;
- The first meeting of the committee is to be called by the dean or director concerned;
- The chair is to be elected at the first meeting of the committee.
- C. Each faculty and school council, on consultation with the 50-50 committee, shall submit for Senate approval a bylaw governing the number of student members it proposes to have, the way in which they are to be chosen, and their rights of participation in the affairs of the council.
- D. After bylaws governing student representation on a given faculty or school council have passed, council shall then proceed in a manner similar to that recommended above, with due consultation with departments, to formulate standing rules governing student representation on departmental committees. Such rules formulated shall be submitted for approval to the faculty or school council and thence to Senate.
- E. If students are neither able or willing to fill the positions available on faculty and school councils or committees thereof, these bodies shall in no way be limited in the performance of their functions.