Election for the Academic Senate of AMU
Pursuant to Section 8 of Act No. 111/1998 on tertiary education and to Article 4 Statutes of AMU and to Article 2 of the Election Rules of the Academic Senate of AMU, I hereby stipulate that the election for the Academic Senate of AMU for the term of office from 2021 to 2024 shall be held on 3 and 4 March 2021.
Under clause 2(3) of the Election Rules of the Academic Senate of AMU, I appoint MgA. Mgr. Doubravka Svobodová, Dean of DAMU, the Chairperson of the election panel. The election panel shall inform the academic community of AMU with regard to the further details including the information on the manner in which the election will be held in accordance with the Election Rules of the Academic Senate of AMU depending on the current epidemic situation.
AS AMU has 15 members in two chambers, a teachers’ chamber and a students’ chamber. The members of the teachers’ chamber are elected from among the academic personnel of AMU. The members of the students’ chamber are elected from among AMU students. The teachers’ chamber has 9 members and the students’ chamber has 6 members. For each Faculty, 3 members are elected for the teachers’ chamber and 2 members for the students’ chamber.
Candidates for AS AMU for a Faculty may be nominated by any member of that Faculty’s academic community and of school-wide teaching workplaces outside the Faculty, and any member of the Faculty’s academic community and school-wide teaching workplaces outside the Faculty may run for the position. The candidateship for the teachers’ chamber of AS AMU is not interchangeable with the candidateship for the students’ chamber of AS AMU.
The deadline for candidate nominations for both chambers of AS AMU is 15 February 2021. Candidate nominations should be submitted to the Chairperson of the election panel, MgA. Mgr. Doubravka Svobodová in hard copy with a signature of the proponent and with a written consent of the nominee to: Malostranské náměstí 259/ 12, 118 00 Praha 1.
Doc. Mgr. Jan Hančil
Rector