Academic Senate



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                                     Welcome to Website of Academic Senate of

                                         Charles University in Prague!

                                                                                                      
                     Information for the public [ URL           Information for the CU AS members and 
                    "http://www.cuni.cz/UK-901.html#1"]        CU AS member [ URL "http://www.cuni.cz/

            The Academic Senate of CU in Prague is a self-regulating representative academic organ. It

            after the velvet revolution in 1989 when a modern university life started to rise. The mea
            Ministry of Education, Youth and Sports aimed at decentralization of the management of uni

            the beginning of January 1990 enabled the rise of Academic Board of CU on the basis of Pri
            Education Act from January 5th 1990. The Academic Board consisted of representatives of 15
            First meeting of the Board was held on January 12th 1990 during which the Board organized 

            the rector and accepted the interim University Statute which contained  the basic regulati
            activity.
            MSc (Ing.) Ivan Wilhelm, Csc., was elected first president of the Academic Board. The elec

            rector was held on January 18th 1990, and subsequently on January 16th 1990 the Board acce
            prorectors suggested by rector Doc.PhDr.Radim Palouš, CSc. On March 9th 1990 there was oth
            measure-adoption of proposal change of the Interim Statute which caused a title change fro

            Board to Academic Senate of Charles University. On May 4th 1990 the Federal Assembly of th
            Federal Republic passed a Higher Education Act “No 172/1990 Coll. which defined in §8-§10 
            the Academic Senate as an Academic organ of the university. The Senate was to be elected b

            community of a university in the way that all faculties could participate in with the same
            members. This Act came into force on July 1st 1990. On May 11th the Academic Senate passed
            of Procedure of CU AS. In the beginning of its existence the Academic Senate established a

            legislative, pedagogical, and social board. On March 31st 1991 the first senate term ended
            time the first CU Academic Senate elections took place. On March 22nd 1991 the first repor
            activity in term of January 1990-1991 was published. In addition to the boards above menti

            established on February 4th 2000 other two: editorial board and foreign board. 
            At the present time the Academic Senate consists of 70 members ( 34 students, and 36 teach
            list [ URL "http://certik.ruk.cuni.cz/ADRASUK.html"] - only in Czech).

            CU AS members are elected regularly in November by the academic community of a particular 
            University for a three-year term of office. Faculties are divided in three parts because o
            A six-member presidium is elected for the coordination of the senate activity.

            The Academic Senate establishes service boards for preparation of documents and standpoint
            sessions, and for detailed solving of particular problems. It is not necessary that the bo
            CU AS member. At the present time the senate has  editorial, economic, legislative, social

            foreign boards.
            The Academic Senat acts according to relevant laws of the Czech Republic and inner regulat
            especially the Statute of Charles University in Prague [ URL "http://certik.ruk.cuni.cz/as

            predpisy/registrovane/statut.html"] (only in Czech), and Election and Procedure Regulation
            "http://certik.ruk.cuni.cz/asuk/statutarni/predpisy/registrovane/uz-vjras.html"] (only in