The Senate is one of the leading
bodies of the University, with 27 members. Its President is the Rector.
The ex officio members of the
Senate are: the Rector, the Chancellor, the Vice-Rectors, the Deans, and the Head
of the Corvinus Doctoral Council. It also has elected and delegated members.
Area of responsibility:
- Determines the educational and
research tasks of the University, by hearing and discussing the Vice-Rectors’
annual report supervises their implementation.
- Reviews the Rules of Organization
and Operation, the Institutional Development plan and all institutional
strategies.
- Consolidates the educational
programmes.
- In agreement with the
Presidential Committee decides upon commencing, terminating educational
programmes, or initiating such action toward those concerned according to the
following:
- In agreement with the
Presidential Committee, decides upon opening and closing a doctoral school.
- Proposes content for the call
for applications for Rector’s scholarships, assesses such applications.
- Reviews the Rector’s executive
activities, including hearing the Rector’s annual report.
- Decides upon initiating the
discharge of the Rector.
- Reviews applications for
university dean, professor, senior research fellow, scientific advisor,
research professor positions as proposed by the Rector.
- Reviews, and when necessary, shortlists
applications for academic leadership positions as proposed by the Rector.
- Elects members of the University
Doctoral Council.
- Decides upon initiating court
procedures against any action of the University’s controlling body, requesting
judgement that the it violates the university’s independence secured by the
National Higher Education Act.
- Determines the system of
student consultancy.
- Determines the system of student
evaluation of the teaching staff’s work.
- Decides upon founding and
granting titles and awards.
- Decides upon setting up a Senate
committee.
- Determines its own rules of
practice.
