(1) The Academic Council shall consist of the following members; namely:-
(i) the Vice Chancellor, who shall be the Chairman thereof;
(ii) three persons from amongst the educationists of repute or men of letters or members of any profession or eminent public men, who are not in service of the University nominated by the Chairman in consultation with the Governing Council;
(iii) the Principal Secretary/Secretary of Judicial Department, Government of Uttarakhand or his nominee not below the rank of Additional Secretary;
(iv) the Principal Secretary/Secretary of Higher Education Department, Government of Uttarakhand or his nominee not below the rank of Additional Secretary;
(v) Registrar General, High Court of Uttarakhand;
(vi) Director, Uttarakhand Judicial and Legal Academy;
(vii) a nominee of the Bar Council of Uttarakhand;
(viii) all the Heads of the Department of the University;
(ix) all Professors other than the Heads of the Department, if any;
(x) two members of the teaching staff, one each representing the Readers and the Lecturers of the University.
(2) The terms of the members other than ex-officio members shall be three years.
(3) Where a person has become a member of the Academic Council by reason of the office or appointment he holds, his membership shall terminate when he ceases to hold such office of appointment.
(4) A member of the Academic Council shall cease to be a member thereof if he resigns or becomes of unsound mind or becomes insolvent or is convicted of a criminal offence involving moral turpitude or if a member other than the Vice Chancellor or a member of faculty accepts full time appointment in the University or if he fails to attend three consecutive meetings of the Academic Council without the leave of the Chairman of the Academic Council.
(5) Unless the membership of the Academic Council thereof is previously terminated as provided in the foregoing sub-sections, members of the Academic Council shall relinquish their membership on the expiry of three years from the date on which they become members of the Academic Council but shall be eligible for re-nomination or re-appointment, as the case may be.
(6) A member of the Academic Council other than an ex-officio member may resign his office by a letter addressed to the Chairman of the Academic Council and such resignation shall take effect as soon as it has been accepted by the Chairman of the Academic Council.
(7) Any vacancy in the Academic Council shall be filled either by appointment or nomination, as the case may be, by the respective authorities to make the same.
Powers and duties of the Academic Council
21. Subject to the provisions of this Act or the regulations, the Academic Council shall in addition to all other powers vested in it, have the following powers; namely:-
(i) to report on any matter referred to or delegated to it by the Governing Council or the Executive Council;
(ii) to make recommendations to the Executive Council with regard to the creation, abolition or classification of teaching posts in the University and the qualifications emoluments and duties attached thereto;
(iii) to formulate and modify or revise schemes for organisation of the faculties and to assign to such faculties their respective subjects and also to report the Executive Council as to the expediency of the abolition or subdivision of any faculty or the combination of one faculty with another;
(iv) to promote research within the University and to require, from time to time, report on such research;
(v) to consider proposals submitted by the faculties;
(vi) to lay norms and to appoint committees for admission to the University;
(vii) to recognize diplomas and degrees of other Universities and Institutions and to determine their equivalence in relation to the diplomas and degree of the University;
(viii) to fix, subject to any conditions accepted by the Governing Council, the time, mode and conditions of competitions for fellowship, scholarship and other prizes and to award the same;
(ix) to make recommendations to the Executive Council in regard to the appointment of examiners and if necessary their removal and the fixation of their fees, emoluments and travelling and other expenses;
(x) to make arrangements for the conduct of examinations and to fix dates for holding them;
(xi) to declare the results of the various examinations or to appoint committees or officers to do so, and to make recommendations regarding the conferment or grant of degrees, honours, diplomas, licences, titles and marks of honour;
(xii) to award stipends, scholarship, medals and prizes and to make other awards in accordance with the regulations and such other conditions as may be attached to the awards;
(xiii) to publish list of prescribed or recommended text books and to publish syllabus of the prescribed courses of study;
(xiv) to prepare such forms and registers as are, from time to time, prescribed by regulations; and
(xv) to perform, in relation to academic matters, all such duties and to do all such acts as may be necessary for the proper carrying out the provisions of this Act and the regulations.
Meeting of the Academic Council