Board of Directors

I. ORGANIZATION OF THE ADMINISTRATIVE BOARD

• The Administrative Council consists of the Rector, vice-rectors, deans, the general administrative director and a representative of the students, designated by the representative student organization at the university level.
• The membership of the Board of Administration is acquired by right with the function provided for in paragraph. (1) and ceases with the termination of this function. .
• A delegate of the representative union at the level of the UVT has the capacity of guest at the meetings of the Board of Directors in the event that problems regarding labor relations between the UVT and its employees are discussed. .
• The joint consultative structures are established following the approval of the Board of Administration and the UVT Senate. Under these conditions, the following advisory councils are established: .
  1. The academic advisory council, made up of personalities from the academic, cultural and professional environment;
  2. The economic and social advisory council, made up of representatives of the economic and social environment;
  3. The alumni advisory council, made up of representatives of UVT graduates.
• The established consultative structures are invited by the Rector of UVT to the meetings of the Board of Directors and are consulted on issues concerning strategies and policies in their field of competence.
  
  

II. FUNCTIONING OF THE ADMINISTRATIVE BOARD

• The Rector of UVT leads the meetings of the Board of Administration and represents this body in relations with the Senate of UVT. In case of the absence of the Rector of UVT, the meeting of the Board of Administration is led by the vice-rector appointed by him.
• The Board of Directors meets in ordinary meetings, monthly, and in extraordinary meetings.
• The Board of Directors can be convened by the UVT Rector or at the request of at least one third of its members.
• The agenda is established by the Rector of UVT or by the members who request the convocation and is sent to the members of the Board of Administration by the Rector of UVT, through the convener.
• Each member of the Board of Directors can request the Rector of UVT to introduce some items on the agenda, at least 5 days before the date of the ordinary meeting.
• The notice, together with the draft decisions, are sent to the members of the Board of Directors in electronic form at least 3 days before the date of the meeting.
• The decisions of the Board of Administration are adopted with the vote of the majority of the members present, under the conditions of the presence of at least two thirds of the total number of members.
• All members of the Board of Directors have equal voting rights.
• The right to vote is exercised personally and directly.
• The right to vote cannot be delegated to another member of the Board of Directors.
• The Board of Directors appoints a Steering Committee that ensures its functioning between two meetings.
• The executive committee of the Administrative Council consists of: Rector, vice-rectors, the general administrative director and the student representative.
• The executive committee of the Board of Administration meets weekly.
• The executive committee of the Board of Administration adopts measures to manage the current activities of the university, which it submits to validation in the next meeting of the Board of Administration.
• The executive committee of the Board of Administration establishes the priority of introducing the items requested by the members of the Board of Administration on the agenda.
• The Board of Directors can delegate the solution of some problems that fall within its attributions to the Steering Committee of the Board of Directors.
  Management of the support activity of the Board of Administration is carried out by the Chancellery of the Rector of UVT.
• The board of administration makes its decisions public through the UVT website.
• The board of administration transmits to the President of the UVT Senate and the presidents of the specialized commissions of the UVT Senate the requested information and documents regarding the activity of the Board of administration.
• The regulation on the organization and operation of the UVT Board of Directors can be modified by the UVT Senate.

DUTIES OF THE ADMINISTRATIVE COUNCIL OF UVT

• elaborates and submits for approval to the UVT Senate long-term and medium-term strategies of the university, as well as policies on fields of interest of the university;
• elaborates and forwards the UVT's scientific research strategy to the UVT Senate for approval;
• proposes to the UVT Senate the establishment, division, merger and/or dissolution of the university's educational and research organizational components;
• elaborates and submits for approval to the UVT Senate the regulations and methodologies regarding the organization and functioning of the university and all its organizational components, regarding the assurance of institutional capacity, educational efficiency and quality management;
• prepares the institutional budget;
• proposes for the approval of the UVT Senate the budget execution and the annual balance sheet;
• subject to the approval of the UVT Senate, the performance of financial operations that exceed the ceilings established by the UVT Senate, regarding expenses that can be approved by the UVT Rector, in correlation with the provisions of OG 34/2006 with subsequent amendments and additions
• approves proposals for new study programs and formulates proposals to the UVT Senate for the abolition of those that no longer fit into the university's mission or that are unsustainable from an academic and financial point of view;
• approves the annual plans for scientific research and university creation developed by the councils of departments, doctoral schools, faculties and functional units that carry out scientific research and university creation activities;
• analyzes and submits to the UVT Senate for approval the educational plans related to university study programs;
• proposes to the UVT Senate the study formations and their dimensions, in compliance with quality standards;
• proposes to the UVT Senate the regulation for the organization of admission, the methodology for evaluating students along the way, the methodology for the recognition and equating of studies or periods of study carried out in the country or abroad and the regulation for the organization and conduct of final exams;
• proposes to the UVT Senate for approval the structure of the academic year and the calendar of educational activities;
• approves proposals for competition for teaching and research positions;
• analyzes the positions of teaching and research staff and the number of positions for teaching and auxiliary research staff;
• approves the order notes on the basis of which the job descriptions of the departments with disciplines at several faculties are drawn up;
• proposes to the UVT Senate the approval of the assignments of doctoral students as research assistants or university assistants for a determined period and, in special situations, upon the proposal of the doctoral supervisor and within the limits of available funds, submits to the Senate for approval the extension of the duration of the program by 1-2 years of doctoral university studies;
• proposes to the UVT Senate, based on the criteria of professional performance and the financial situation, the approval of the continuation of the activity of a teaching or research staff after retirement, based on a contract for a fixed period of one year, in accordance with the law;
• elaborates and submits to the UVT Senate for approval the methodology for the periodic evaluation of the results and performances in the research and didactic activity of the teaching and research staff and the methodology for sanctioning the staff with low professional results;
• submits to the UVT Senate for approval the framework for carrying out national and international cooperation actions;
• proposes to the UVT Senate the establishment, differentiated, of the effective university norm, depending on the field, specialization, the weight of the disciplines in the specialized training of students and the size of the study formations, and the increase, by regulation, of the minimum weekly didactic norm, with the respect the quality assurance standards, namely the reduction of the didactic norm by no more than 30% for the staff who exercise a management function within the university or of guidance and control within the relevant ministry;
• proposes to the UVT Senate the approval of the support of teaching and research activities in other higher education or research institutions by the UVT staff, respectively the invitation for a determined period within the university of university teaching staff and other specialists with recognized value in the field, from country or from abroad, as invited associate university teaching staff;
• submits proposals for granting the sabbatical year to the UVT Senate for approval;
• approves requests for unpaid leave of teaching staff who request to specialize or participate in scientific research and university creation programs in the country or abroad;
• proposes to the UVT Senate for approval the vacation periods for all tenured teaching staff, according to the law;
• organizes the competition for the post of general administrative director and approves the Rector's proposal to dismiss the general administrative director;
• proposes to the UVT Senate for approval the structure and composition of the ethics and professional deontology commission of the UVT, as well as the commission for the evaluation and quality assurance of the UVT;
• approves the change of the destination of the spaces affected by teaching, research or administrative activities, as well as their redistribution, with the consent of the faculty or other functional unit that used the respective space, with the inclusion of the requirements for spaces allocated to the educational process and the current related activity for all UVT faculties and the other functional units of UVT;
• proposes to the UVT Senate the establishment of spin-offs and start-ups, commercial companies, foundations or associations and the granting, by contract, of the right to administer and use the patrimonial assets;
• approves the annual reports presented by the deans;
• fulfills other duties established by the UVT Senate, according to the law.
• The board of administration can formulate amendments to the draft decisions of the UVT Senate proposed by the members of the UVT Senate.