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The main roles of the Senate (Claustre) are:

  • drawing up and approving the University Regulations;
  • reforming the University Regulations when changes have been agreed by the rector, the Governing Council and a fifth of the senate members;
  • approving its own internal regulations;
  • summoning extraordinary elections for the position of rector, in accordance with article 59 of the Regulations;
  • choosing and dismissing the ombudsman, and approving the regulations by which approval is given to the annual report written by the ombudsman on his or her activity;
  • choosing the representatives of the Governing Council;
  • understanding and debating the general policies of the University;
  • requesting information on any aspect of the university's activity from the rector and from other areas of management, governance and administration;
  • requesting that representatives of the university's academic and institutional bodies appear before the Senate;
  • presenting recommendations, proposals and institutional declarations;
  • debating reports presented to it and assessing the management of the university bodies and services;
  • drafting proposals, to be sent to the Governing Council, on changes to the regulations;
  • carrying out the other responsibilities awarded to it by current laws, the Statutes and the regulations for development.
 

 

 

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