Responsibilities :Serves as the chief academic policy advisory body in matters relating to academic budgeting, curriculum revision and development, academic program planning, faculty personnel matter, academic standards, the graduate program, and faculty research. The committee serves as the forum for the final review and discussion of policies, procedures and practices that involve collaboration and coordination among and between the departments and divisions. The committee shall also organize interdepartmental meetings like grand rounds, statistical meeting and clinic-pathological meetings.
Objectives :the council is vested with the authority to:
Propose the appointment of faculty members, graduate students, and lecturers and propose their secondment, delegation and promotion.
Propose degree plans, or their amendment in consideration with academic departments.
Propose curricula, textbooks, and references for the department of the college or institute.
Encourage conducting academic research, coordinate research activities between the departments of the college or institute, and undertake its publication.
Propose examination schedules and make arrangements for conducting the exams.
Propose the internal code for the college or institute.
Propose plans for training and sponsored study by college or institute personnel at other institutions.
Propose the extracurricular activities plan for the college
Resolve issues related to students that are within its jurisdiction, and forward others to the university council.
Consider matters forwarded by the university council, its chairman or deputy chairman and provide its