*ALIGARH, June 5:* A Special meeting of the Academic Council of the Aligarh
Muslim University today reviewed the current status report of the action
taken by the University with regard to the establishment of the Special
Centers under Section 12(2) of the AMU Act 1981.
The Academic Council has approved unanimously the amendment/addition in the
statutes and ordinances exclusively relating to the establishment of the two
regional campuses, one at Malappuram and another at Murshidabad. Appointment
of Directors for these regional campuses, its modus operandi, functional
powers, etc., and appointment of Coordinators to head the academic units
through which the courses will be offered in these regional campuses along
with their functions and relationship with the Department of Study located
at AMU’s main campus. The Academic Council has also approved the terms and
conditions of the Director of the regional centers who will be a whole time
salaried officer of the university holding a five-year term and illegible
for one more term reappointment.
Coordinator of the Units of the regional campuses shall be a Professor of
the concerned subject. Their duties and functions and terms and conditions
of appointment will be similar to that of the Chairman of the department of
Studies in the main campus and as prescribed in the status and ordinances of
the University.
In order to ensure certain degree of autonomy to the academic units at the
regional campuses, the Academic Council has suggested a Committee of Studies
which should comprise of all the teachers involved in the teaching of the
subjects in the units to decide such academic matters like work allocation
and other academic matters specific to the regional campus.
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