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Faculty of Sciences

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Faculty Board and Committees

Functions of the Faculty Board

The Faculty Board is the highest representative body of the members of the Faculty, with its own powers in matters of organization, coordination, and management. It is composed of representatives from the faculty, students, and administrative and service staff of the Faculty of Sciences. Its composition is renewed in the first few months of each academic year. Its functions include:

To define, approve and coordinate the Faculty's policy of action, both in terms of teaching and research, as well as in terms of its administrative and economic regime
Prepare and approve the Draft Internal Regulations of the Faculty and its amendments.
To approve the teaching organization plans of the Faculty and to propose and report the modification of its study plans.
Approve the distribution of funds allocated to the Faculty charged to the University Budgets.
To supervise the actions of the Faculty's governing bodies and its services, both collective and individual, in accordance with the provisions of the Statutes of the University of La Laguna. These include the powers stipulated for collective bodies in Article 98 of the University Statutes.
To perform any other functions assigned to him by the higher governing bodies of the university or recognized by the current regulations.
And, in general, to perform the other functions provided for collegiate bodies in article 139 of the University Statutes.

According to the Internal Regulations of the Faculty of Sciences, it is established that:

In order to ensure a more agile and efficient operation of the Faculty of Sciences, the Sections of Biology, Physics, Mathematics and Chemistry are established.
Each Section will have autonomy to organize its internal operating regime, guided by the principles emanating from this Regulation and without prejudice to the powers in matters of control contemplated in this Regulation and attributed to the Faculty Board.
Each of the aforementioned sections will have a Board that will be chaired by the Dean, who may delegate the chair to one of the people who holds one of the vice-deanships.
The Secretary of each Section Board will be the person who holds the position of Secretary of the Faculty, or the person designated by the Dean, who must be a member of the Faculty Board and meet the same requirements as the former.
The Faculty Board delegates to the Section Boards the powers that refer exclusively to matters of interest to the respective Sections.
Each Section Board is responsible for the knowledge and resolution of any other matter that the Faculty Board expressly delegates to it, with the exceptions set out in this regulation in article 19.4 and in the Statutes of the University of La Laguna and current legislation.

The Faculty of Science Boards will be informed of the agreements adopted by the Section Boards held previously.

The Plenary may revoke the delegation made at any time, recovering the exercise of the delegated powers.

Composition

Commissions

Quality Committee of the Faculty of Sciences

The Faculty Quality Commission will be made up of the Dean, who will preside over it, the Vice-Deans, and the Faculty Secretary, who will assume the Secretariat of the Commission. It will also include two representatives of the Teaching and Research Staff from each of the Faculty's Degree Commissions, two representatives of the administrative and service staff (one of whom must be the person responsible for the Administration of the Faculty), one student representative from each degree program taught at the Faculty, and one representative from society external to the University.

Standing Committee

The Standing Committee of the Faculty Board will be composed of 30 members. Of these, 18 will be representatives of the teaching and research staff. These 18 members include the Dean, the Vice-Deans, and the Secretary. Of these 18 members of the Standing Committee, 15 will have permanent positions at the University and 3 will have temporary positions. In addition, the Standing Committee will include 9 student representatives and 3 representatives from the Administrative and Service Staff, who will be elected by their respective sectors from among the members of the Board.

The Standing Committee may exercise those powers that are expressly delegated to it by the Plenary of the Board for specific cases and for specific periods of time.

OTHER COMMITTEES OF THE FACULTY OF SCIENCES

As established in Article 19, Chapter 2 of the Internal Regulations of the Faculty of Sciences, the Faculty Board may act through Committees. In addition to the Committees that must be established by current regulations, or that the Faculty Board agrees to appoint, at least one Standing Committee will be established. The composition and powers of the Committees will be determined by their founding regulations. Otherwise, the agreement adopted by the Board Plenary will apply. The Dean or the Vice-Dean, to whom they delegate, will chair each of these Committees. Generally, they will only have the power to submit reports or proposals on matters within their competence, unless otherwise expressly agreed by the Board Plenary or specified in the founding regulations.

The following link provides access to the composition of all current and previous Faculty of Science Board Committees. For committees associated with Section Boards, please consult the website of each degree program.