Senate

The Senate's statutory authority derives from the Education and Training Act, which empowers Council to establish an Academic Committee (in the case of this University the Academic Committee is called Senate) to:

• Advise the Council on matters relating to courses of study or training, awards, and other academic matters
• Exercise powers delegated to it by Council.

• Vice-Chancellor – Chair
• Provost
• Deputy Vice-Chancellor Research and Innovation
  
• Deputy Vice-Chancellor Strategic Engagement 
• Deputy Vice-Chancellor Operations and Registrar
• Pro Vice-Chancellor Education
  
• Pro Vice-Chancellor Equity
  
• Pro Vice-Chancellor Māori
• Pro Vice-Chancellor Pacific
• All distinguished professors, professors and emeritus professors employed on 0.1 full-time equivalent (FTE) or more
• Academic heads
• Deans
• One deputy dean from each faculty and School of Graduate Studies
• One associate dean academic, associate dean teaching and learning, associate dean research and associate dean postgraduate research from each faculty
• One associate director academic, associate director research, associate director postgraduate research from each Large-Scale Research Institute (LSRI)
  
• One deputy director from each LSRI
• Directors of LSRIs
• Director of Learning and Teaching
• Director of Learning Design Services
• Director of Libraries and Learning Services
• The two elected permanent members of academic and professional staff on Council, if not already members
• Elected members of the sub-professorial staff:
  • Two faculty members of each faculty
    
  • 11 sub-professorial staff at large
    
• President Auckland University Students Association or alternate
• Five student members nominated by Auckland University Students' Association
  • Four undergraduate
  • One postgraduate

Senate reports to Council.

Ex-officio members

Elected members of sub-professorial staff

Note: No meeting in December.

Wendy Verschaeren
Phone: +64 9 373 7599 ext 85782
Email: w.verschaeren@auckland.ac.nz

• Academic Programmes Committee
• Auckland University Press Board
• Board of Graduate Studies
• Education Committee
• University Equity Leadership Committee
• International Committee
• Library Committee
• Research Committee
• Rūnanga