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The Senate

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		What is it? What is its role? Who belongs to it? Boards The main roles of the Senate (Claustre) are: drawing up and approving the University Regulations; reforming the University Regulations when changes have been agreed by the rector, the Governing Council and a fifth of the senate members; approving its own internal regulations; summoning extraordinary elections for the position of rector, in accordance with article 59 of the Regulations; choosing and dismissing the ombudsman, and approving the regulations by which approval is given to the annual report written by the ombudsman on his or her activity; choosing the representatives of the Governing Council; understanding and debating the general policies of the University; requesting information on any aspect of the university's activity from the rector and from other areas of management, governance and administration; requesting that representatives of the university's academic and institutional bodies appear before the Senate; presenting recommendations, proposals and institutional declarations; debating reports presented to it and assessing the management of the university bodies and services; drafting proposals, to be sent to the Governing Council, on changes to the regulations; carrying out the other responsibilities awarded to it by current laws, the Statutes and the regulations for development.

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