UOH Senate

UOH Senate

Powers, Duties & Responsibilities of the University Of Hargeisa Senate:

  • Examine and approve the academic calendar of the University
  • Approve the University’s various academic programs
  • Decide on the conferring of degrees, diplomas and certificates as well as medal
  • Approve criteria for admission and enrollment of students
  • Set criteria for the determination of academic standards
  • Oversee quality assurance and excellence of programs
  • Provide governing guidelines for the settlement of disciplinary problems
  • Determine criteria for graduation and its ceremony processions
  • Formulate guidelines for determining student assessment methods and standards
  •  Recommend to the Board the conferring of the rank of full Professorship and approve promotions to other academic ranks
  • approve tuition fees to be charged by the University
  • Issue guidelines on conditions and procedures of competitions for grants, fellowships, and scholarships

  • Formulate policies and guidelines for planning and utilization of resources
  • Formulate, modify and revise the organization of Colleges, schools, centres, institutes and departments of the University, and decide on the establishment of new units, merger or dissolution of existing ones.
  • Establish committees, which may include persons who are not members of the Senate, to carry out and exercise any of the powers of the Senate
  • Propose policies regarding employment, salaries, allowances and other benefits of the University staff to the board
  • Formulate policy and devise mechanisms for staff requirement, retention and promotion
  • Determine its own rules and procedures
  • Set budgetary areas of priority, device mechanisms for generating and retaining internal financial resources for the university, and administer the same as well as revise plans and budgetary appropriation schemes
  • provide an overall governing policy for external funding; and
  • Perform such other duties as may be given to it by the President.

The Members Of The University Of Hargeisa Senate:

  • The President who shall be the Chairperson;
  • The Vice-president for Academic and Research ;
  • The Vice President for Administrative and Development
  • University Registrar
  • Deans of Colleges, Schools, institutes Directors, Center Directors of the university
  • Student Service and Counseling Director
  • Academic Program Development and Promotion Director
  • Chief librarian;
  • Examination Center Director
  • Human Resource Management and Development Director,
  • Finance and Planning Director.
  • Research, Publication, and Community Services Director
  • Institutional Transformation and Quality Assurance Director
  • Head of Laboratories
  • Director of Corporate Communications
  • Director of General Services and Logistics