AU Academic Council meet today

The much-awaited first meeting of the Allahabad Central University's Academic Council will take place in the Senate Hall on Saturday. The meeting will begin with the AU Vice-Chancellor Prof Rajen Harshe welcoming the members and sharing his views of the academic state of the varsity as well as the developments in the academic sphere since the restoration of the Central status on July 14, 2006.

The much-awaited first meeting of the Allahabad Central University's Academic Council will take place in the Senate Hall on Saturday.

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The meeting will begin with the AU Vice-Chancellor Prof Rajen Harshe welcoming the members and sharing his views of the academic state of the varsity as well as the developments in the academic sphere since the restoration of the Central status on July 14, 2006.

He will also spell out the academic imperatives and objectives of the institution as a Central University.

This will be followed by the Registrar reporting all the notification of the Government of India received during the past one year. The Registrar will also report the decisions taken by the AU Admission Committee during its meetings on February 25, March 26, April 17 and May 12.

An important task that is expected to be achieved by the Academic Council is the recommendation of a panel of experts to the Executive Council for serving on the selection committees for filling up the 198 vacant posts of teachers in the varsity.

The Academic Council members will appoint a standing committee on admissions and another standing committee on research degrees in terms of statutes 19 (1) and 19(2).

This will enable the varsity to get on with many of its day-to-day activities without having to wait for a meeting of the Academic Council. The decisions of these standing committees will, however, be dependent on the formal approval of the Academic Council to be permanently effective.

The Council members will also assign the recently sanctioned 69 posts of teachers to various departments, institutes and independent centres of the varsity during the meeting. The Registrar is expected to present a note on future academic contours, programmes and vision of the varsity too.

It is to be recalled that the provision for having a mandatory presence of at least 25 members for holding a meeting of the Allahabad Central University's Academic Council has already been amended.

For the next three years, presence of just 16 members will suffice for completing the quorum and empower the present members to take decision on behalf of the entire Council.

The change, however, will be effective with respect to a meeting of only the first Academic Council that has been nominated by the Union Government for a period of three years. Following the appointment of the first regular Academic Council, the clause requiring 25 members to form the quorum for a meeting will once again become effective.

This vital change has been implemented on the instruction of the Union Ministry of Human Resource Development and will be reported as well as implemented at first meeting of the AU Academic Council

Though the Academic Council is free to take up any issue coming within its domain with the permission of the AU VC, who will be chairing the meeting, the agenda as such makes no mention of any of the pending academic programmes that are continuing to hang in the balance for the past many months. The issue of compulsory attendance of students in classes and introduction of rotational headship in the varsity too can figure during deliberations of the Council
members.