Responsibilities of the Faculty of Dental Medicine Council:
  • approves, at the Dean’s proposal, the structure, organization, and functioning of the faculty;
  • approves the study programs managed by the faculty;
  • controls the Dean’s activity and approves his annual reports on the general state of the faculty, quality assurance, and compliance with university ethics and deontology within the faculty;
  • fulfills other duties, established by the University Charter or approved by the University Senate and in accordance with current legislation, as per the Regulation for the organization and functioning of the Faculty Council of Dentistry (CFMD).
  • defines the mission, objectives, and development strategy of the faculty;
  • approves, at the Dean’s proposal, the establishment or abolition of department subdivisions and departments, as well as their structure;
  • approves the study programs managed by the faculty;
  • endorses proposals for new study programs and proposes to the Board of Directors the abolition of those that no longer align with the university’s mission or are academically and financially inefficient;
  • endorses the staffing plans for teaching and research staff within the faculty’s departments and submits them to the University Senate for approval;
  • analyzes the opportunity to modify the staffing plans proposed by some department subdivisions or departments when justified by the strategic interests of the Faculty;
  • endorses the Dean’s annual proposals regarding enrollment numbers and study formations;
  • decides, at the proposal of the department director, the increase in the teaching load of academic staff who do not engage in scientific research or equivalent activities, and, in exceptional cases, the reduction of the minimum teaching load and its supplementation with scientific research activities, in accordance with the law;
  • analyzes and submits to the Board of Directors, for endorsement, the curricula of university study programs;
  • approves the evaluation and re-evaluation committees for the teaching and scientific activities of the faculty’s teaching and research staff;
  • endorses the departments’ proposals for advertising teaching and research positions and endorses the competition committees for filling teaching positions;
  • analyzes the opportunity to modify the positions proposed by departments for advertising, in line with the Faculty’s development strategy, and the opportunity to modify the composition of the competition committees proposed at the department level;
  • endorses the results of elections conducted at the department level within the faculty;
  • endorses candidates for the selection competition for the position of dean, in accordance with the law;
  • endorses the employment of specialists with recognized scientific value in various fields, from the country or abroad, as guest teaching staff or researchers with associate status, in accordance with the law;
  • annually approves the offers of postgraduate courses proposed by the Department Councils;
  • endorses the request for employment of auxiliary teaching staff formulated by the department management;
  • approves the organization of the Faculty’s scientific events and measures to support student scientific events;
  • proposes to the university’s Rector the dismissal of the faculty dean when it finds that he has violated current legal provisions and the Code of Ethics and Professional Deontology;
  • establishes disciplinary sanctions within its legal competence;
  • develops and adopts strategies and policies in areas of interest to the faculty;
  • fulfills other duties approved by the University Senate in accordance with the current legislation.
Members
Council decisions 2024
Council decisions 2023
Council decisions 2022