University of Turku Department Councils seek student members and deputy members for a two-year term beginning 1 April 2010

 Department councils are fundamental bodies of the academic affairs of students. In selecting student members, previous student representative work experience in higher education administration will be taken into account.

TYY will be organising a training seminar on the jobs and activities of the department councils for all those interested on 25 February at 16.15 in Turku-sali.

You can become a candidate by filling out an application. The application and free-form letter of motivation must be submitted to tyy-koposihteeri@utu.fi by 24.00, Friday, 12 March 2010. The TYY Executive Board will make selections at its meeting on 25 March 2010. A selection committee appointed by the Student Union Council will present a well-founded proposal of applicants if there are more applicants than department council seats. In addition, students from the subject or faculty associations that represent the faculty (incl. Turku School of Economics) or department in question will be asked to give a statement on the applicants.

The job of the department councils includes: giving comments to the director of the department on the proposal for the operational and financial plan, the annual budget, the use of resources in the budget and the curriculum; giving comments to the dean on the decision of selecting a director; handling other possible business brought to the council’s attention. One third of the department council members are students.

Under the TYY Regulations, students eligible for application are those who have the right to complete a Bachelor’s, Master’s, Licentiate or Doctoral degree, specialist medical studies or specialist dentistry studies at the University of Turku. Furthermore, students are required to have been registered as attending at the University of Turku in order to be eligible. An applicant is eligible only in the department at which he/she has primarily registered with, for the academic year, for the completion of a degree. Those who have had a full-time working relationship with the University of Turku for at least six months are not eligible to apply. For this position, 20 hours of work is considered full-time.