Universidad de Colima

This is the highest collegiate organism of government and authority within the University of Colima according to what is indicated in the Organic Law of our institution (Article 8 of Organic Law). Taken part, under article 9 of the Organic Law, the University Council is composed of:

The Rector, who will serve as president of the council and shall have the right to speak, in the case of a tie, as the casting vote.
The Secretary General, who will act as the rapporteur and notary, with voice but without a vote.
The directors (principals/deans) of the schools and faculties.
A representative of the Federation of Students from Colima (Federación de Estudiantes Colimenses also known as FEC) and by another labor organization recognized by the University Council.
A representative of professors and a representative of students must be appointed in schools which offer various careers or work in various shifts, so that each career from the University of Colima in turn may count with parity representation within the University Council.

REQUIREMENTS

The student adviser and the professor adviser shall be elected in a democratic manner in a general assembly summoned by the Rectory, whose election must be sanctioned by a representative of the Rector.

An alternate must be elected by a board member in like manner for the same lapse of time and fulfilling the same requirements as said board member.

In order to become a student adviser one must:

Be a regular student at the time of the election.
Be Mexican.
Have a general grade average of at least 8.0.
Have seniority of at least one year as a student of the university.
Not work in service of the university.
Not have committed any serious offense or misconduct against the university.

In order to become a professor adviser one must:

Be Mexican.
Be in active duty as a professor.
Have seniority of at least two years in service of the institution.
Not have committed any serious offense or misconduct against the university

A student adviser will cease being one:

Upon losing the grade of student of the University of Colima.
When the student adviser changes school.
Due to committing serious offenses or misconducts against the university or by encouraging insults towards the university or its authorities.
By participating in acts which intention is to attack the University of Colima or endangering the autonomy of the institution, as well as be willing to commit acts which may jeopardize it.
Upon losing the grade of regular student.

A professor adviser will cease being one:

If they are no longer professors of the university.
If and when the professor changes to another school.
Due to committing serious offenses or misconducts against the university or by encouraging insults towards the university or its authorities.
By participating in acts which intention is to attack the University of Colima or endangering the autonomy of the institution, as well as be willing to commit acts which may jeopardize it.

FACULTIES

Shall issue legal norms, regulations and general dispositions oriented towards a better organization and functioning of the university which may not be reserved by this law for other authorities.
Shall create, and if needed, modify or suppress the schools, faculties, or institutes of the university.
Shall appoint the Rector of the designated shortlist of three candidates presented by the Board of University Electoral Auscultation.
Must know and sanction the local taxation plan and the annual expenditure Budget, which will be submitted by the Rector and the Treasurer.
Must know of the applications for salary increase, revision of collective labor contract and the summons to a strike, presented by the union organization, through the commission which establishes this law for this reason.
Shall resolve any petition of incorporation of private educational establishments.
Shall deal with any other issue approved by the Council itself and, in general, come to know any issue, which according to law is not of express competence of any other authority.

The representatives of the University shall be in office for two years, this will be renewed according to the respective regulation. In order for the agreements to have legal effects, they must be made by way of vote and by simple majority, which is understood as 50% plus one of the council attendants of the meeting legally installed.

In order for a meeting of the University Council to be declared legally installed and its agreements to be valid, the legal University of Colima quorum is required, which consists of the attendance of 50% plus one of the members of the Council.

SESSIONS

These are the meetings that the Honorable University Council, be it to make decisions, pay tributes, or receive information.

Types of Sessions::

Ordinary – Carried out approximately every six months.
Extraordinary – Celebrated any time that the issues dealt with require it.
Solemn (Formal) – These are the galas, where a tribute is offered to a special guest, an acknowledgment or award is presented, or the Rector gives his official report or a new rector period begins.

COMMISSIONS

According to what was determined by article 14 of the organic law, the University Council, in order to improve its functions, will have the following commissions:

The Commission of Finance and Budget
The Commission of Labor Relations
The Technical Pedagogical Commission
The Commission of Honor and Justice
The Commission of Regulations
The Commission for University Patrimony

The University Council may create other commissions according to the needs of the institution.

Every commission must be formed by seven members, designated by the University Council upon proposal from the Rector of the University, with the powers specified by the organic law.

A commission session of the council is considered installed once the majority of its members concur, making their decisions by way of majority vote.

Every Commission shall have a president and a secretary, the aforementioned must summon to commission sessions. If once summoned, the majority of the members do not concur, a second summoning and the commission will make its resolutions by majority of attendees.