Universities Law · Article 17

1.Propose the university’s vision, mission, and objectives, and set its academic, financial, and administrative policies.

2.Propose the university’s organizational structure.

3.Propose the implementation procedures for the university’s financial and administrative regulations.

4.Approve the implementation procedures for the university’s academic regulations.

5.Set the power delegation rules for the various councils at the university.

6.Appoint faculty members.

7.Approve the secondment and assignment of faculty members to the public sector, private sector, or civil society organizations, as well as the contracting therewith.

8.Propose the establishment, merger, cancellation, or amendment of names of colleges, deanships, institutes, centers, and academic departments.

9.Propose titles of academic degrees.

10.Approve academic programs and plans for the academic degrees granted by the university.

11.Approve the regulations for issuing academic periodicals.

12.Approve the training and scholarship plan.

13.Set the particulars of the academic calendar according to the beginning and the end of the academic year.

14.Approve the admission policy and determine the number of students to be admitted in each academic year.

15.Determine the fees for academic programs, diplomas, and courses, including related and supporting services.

16.Approve the student activity plans.

17.Approve the university’s social responsibility plan.

18.Award academic degrees to graduates.

19.Propose the recipients of honorary doctorate degrees.

20.Approve academic and technical cooperation agreements and memoranda of understanding between the university and local institutions.

21.Propose academic and technical cooperation agreements and memoranda of understanding between the university and foreign institutions.

22.Propose the formation of the university’s international advisory board and determine its powers.

23.Approve the formation, powers, and work procedures of the university’s advisory board of faculty members.

24.Approve the formation, powers, and work procedures of the university’s advisory board of students.

25.Propose the university’s annual budget.

26.Propose the regulations governing investment, self-generated revenues, and waqf management at the university, in accordance with the regulations issued by the Council of University Affairs.

27.Propose the university’s incorporation of companies or participation therein, or the joining of existing companies as partner or shareholder, in accordance with legal procedures.

28.Accept donations, gifts, and bequests, and disburse therefrom according to the regulations approved by the Council of University Affairs.

29.Allocate part of the university’s lands to university awqaf, upon coordination with the General Authority of State Real Property, in accordance with relevant laws and regulations.

30.Establish academic chairs and set their regulations.

31.Appoint one or more comptrollers for university accounts.

32.Review the university’s final accounts and submit the same to the board of trustees.

33.Review the university’s annual report prior to submission to the board of trustees.

34.Review matters referred to it by its chairman or proposed by any of its members.