Amendments to AMU Act approved at Academic Council meeting

Amendments to AMU Act approved at Academic Council meeting

Aligarh: A special meeting of the Academic Council of the Aligarh Muslim University (AMU) on Monday reviewed the current status report of the action taken by the university with regard to the establishment of the Special Centers under Section 12(2) of the AMU Act, 1981.

The Academic Council has approved unanimously the amendment and addition in the statutes and ordinances exclusively relating to the establishment of the two regional campuses, one at Malappuram and another at Murshidabad.

Appointment of Directors for these regional campuses, its modus operandi, functional powers, etc., and appointment of coordinators to head theacademic units through which the courses will be offered in these regional campuses along with their functions and relationship with the Department of Study located at AMU's main campus.

The Academic Council has also approved the terms and conditions of the Director of the regional centers who will now be a whole time salaried officer of the university holding a five-year term and eligible for one more term reappointment.

The Coordinator of the Units of the regional campuses shall be a professor of the concerned subject. Their duties and functions and terms and conditions of appointment will be similar to that of the Chairman of the department of studies in the main campus and as prescribed in the status and ordinances of the university.

In order to ensure certain degree of autonomy to the academic units at the regional campuses, the Academic Council has suggested a Committee of Studies which should comprise of all the teachers involved in the teaching of the subjects in the units to decide such academic matters like work allocation and other academic matters specific to the regional campus.

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