Powers and duties

The Faculty Board is the faculty’s highest decision-making body. The Faculty Board is the decision-making and preparatory body for first, second and third-cycle education and research conducted at the faculty. The Board works in a forward-looking way and identifies long-term goals and visions for the faculty. On certain matters, the Faculty Board delegates decision-making rights to various sub-bodies or individual officials.

Composition  

The position of chair is held by the dean and the vice chair is the deputy dean.

The Faculty Board consists of six teaching staff with research expertise and two representatives of other staff, who are selected by the faculty’s employees after a proposal by the Nominating Committee. Besides this, the Faculty Board has two  external representatives, and two student union representatives who are appointed according to a separate procedure. 

Required qualifications for board members 

A Faculty Board member is expected to 

• be a good representative for the faculty as a whole 
• have a high level of personal integrity and the ability to set aside individual interests
• have a good ability to cooperate and safeguard collegial leadership 
• possess expertise or experience from either research, education, external engagement and/or administration that is particularly valuable for the development of the faculty’s different areas of activity 
• have an understanding of how present and overall conditions of the organisation can vary between the faculty’s various departments 
• have an overall view of the faculty and an interest in, and the ability to contribute to, the faculty’s strategic development and to solutions for common problems.