King
Faisal University Council System:
The University Council is responsible for managing academic,
administrative, and financial affairs, and implementing the general policy of
the university, and in particular:
1- Approval of the training and scholarship plan.
2- Proposing the establishment of colleges, institutes, departments,
research centers, and supporting deanships, and proposing to amend their
names, merge them, or cancel them.
3- Approval of scientific specializations and graduate studies
programmes.
4- Granting academic degrees to university graduates.
5- Granting honorary doctorates.
6- Determine the details of the academic calendar according to the general
framework for the beginning and end of the study and determine the vacations
that fall between them.
7- Loaning faculty members, seconding them, sending them on scientific
missions, granting them sabbatical leave, and terminating their services in
accordance with the rules regulating that.
8- Approval of curricula, study plans, prescribed books, and references
based on the proposal of the councils of the relevant colleges and
institutes.
9- Proposing rewards and subsidies of various types to students.
10- Approval of the university’s draft budget and submitting it to the
Minister of Education.
11- Approving the university’s internal regulations, which does not entail
financial or functional benefits.
12- Approving or amending the university’s regulations.
13- Discussing the annual report in preparation for presenting it to the
temporary committee in charge of the Higher Education Council.
14- Determining the amounts to be allocated to each college, institute,
support deanship, and future research center for spending within the limits
of the financial regulations.
15- Discussing the university’s final accounts in preparation for
submitting it to the Prime Minister.
16 - Approval of the university’s extracurricular activity plans.
17- Deciding on the appointment of faculty members based on the
recommendation of the Scientific Council.
18- Accepting donations, gifts, bequests, etc., provided that they do not
conflict with the basic purpose for which the university was
established.
19- Establishing rules governing students visiting or transferring to and
from the university.
20- Considering the issues referred to it by the Minister of Higher
Education or the University Director, or which any member of the Council
proposes to present. The Council may form permanent or temporary committees
from among its members or from others to study what it assigns to them.
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