Powers and Duties of Board of Deans.

The Maharashtra Public Universities Act, 2016

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Chapter IV AUTHORITIES OF THE UNIVERSITY

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(1) The Board of Deans shall have the following powers and duties, namely :-
- (a) to make recommendations to the Academic Council for the conduct of post-graduate courses in university departments and post-graduate departments in colleges and recognized institutions;
- (b) to consider and recommend to the Academic Council, new courses, inter-disciplinary courses and short-term training programmes referred to it by the faculty;
- (c) to control, regulate and co-ordinate research activities to maintain standards of teaching and research in the university departments and post-graduate departments in colleges and recognized institutions;
- (d) to recommend to the Academic Council, the norms of recognition of post-graduate teachers and research guides in colleges and recognized institutions;
- (e) to grant recognition to the post-graduate teachers and research guides as recommended by the Research and Recognition Committee in accordance with the norms prescribed by the Academic Council;
- (f) to recommend to the Vice-Chancellor recognition of private skills education providers and empowered autonomous skills education colleges by following the procedure as prescribed under this Act;
- (g) to consider and recommend to the Academic Council the proposals submitted by the private skills education providers and empowered autonomous skills development colleges in respect of starting new certificate, diploma, advanced diploma and degree programmes and designing the curricula thereof;
- (h) to prepare a comprehensive perspective plan of five years for integrating therein the plan of Development in a manner ensuring equitable distribution of facilities for higher education, as per the guidelines framed by the Commission;
  - (i) to prepare the annual plan for the location of colleges and institutions of higher learning, in consonance with the perspective plan;
- (j) to conduct academic audit of the university departments, institutions, affiliated colleges, autonomous university departments and institutions, empowered autonomous colleges, cluster of institutions, empowered autonomous skills development colleges and recognized institutions, which shall be carried out by an Academic Audit Committee, having an equal number of internal and external members;
- (k) to oversee the continuation of affiliation to colleges and continuation of recognition to institutions through a system of academic audit;
- (l) to recommend proposals to the Academic Council for the establishment of conducted colleges, schools, departments, institutions of higher learning, research and specialized studies, academic services units, libraries, laboratories and museums in the university;
- (m) to consider and make recommendations to the Academic Council for creation of posts of university teachers and non-vacational academic staff required by the university, from the funds of the university and from the funds received from other funding agencies, and prescribe their qualifications, experience and pay-scales;
- (n) to make proposal to the Management Council for the institution of fellowship, travelling fellowship, scholarship, studentship, medals and prizes and make regulations for their award;
- (o) to recommend to the Management Council through the Academic Council, the proposal for the conduct of inter-faculty and area or regional studies, common facilities, such as instrumentation centers, workshops, hobby centers, museums, etc.;
- (p) to recommend to the Academic Council the proposals to prescribe fees, other fees and charges through a Fee Fixation Committee;
- (q) to draft Ordinances and place them before the Management;
- (r) to draft regulations and place them before the Management Council and the Academic Council, as the case may be, for its approval.
(2) The Board of Deans shall appoint a Research and Recognition Committee for each Board of Studies,-
- (a) The Research and Recognition Committee shall consist of the following members, namely :-
  - (i) the Pro-Vice-Chancellor, Ex-officio Chairman;
  - (ii) Dean of the faculty concerned and Associate Dean of the concerned group of subjects, if any;
  - (iii) the Chairperson, Board of Studies;
  - (iv) two experts in the subject, to be nominated by the Vice-Chancellor, not below the rank of Professor, who have successfully guided at least three Doctorate of Philosophy (Ph.D.) students and have published research work in recognized or reputed national or international journals, anthologies, etc., one of whom shall be from outside the university;
- (b) the Research and Recognition Committee shall have the following powers and duties, namely :-
  - (i) to approve the topic of thesis or dissertation in the subject;
  - (ii) to recommend to the Vice-Chancellor a panel of referees for thesis or dissertations for awarding post-graduate, doctorate and higher degrees, based on the criteria as approved by the Academic Council;
  - (iii) to recommend to the Board of Deans, by following appropriate process, names of post-graduate teachers, research scientists in the recognized research and other institutions, active research and development experts having of not less than ten years' experience in research and development laboratories or centres in variety of industries, for recognition as approved research guides;
  - (iv) to undertake any other task in academic and research and development matters, as may be assigned to it by the Board of Deans, the Faculty and the Academic Council.

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