No. 5/2016 GWANDA STATE UNIVERSITY Cap. 25: 30 committee appointed by the Vice-Chancellor and consisting of senior academic staff and administrative staff. Termination of appointment of deans or directors 12. (1) A dean or director may resign his or her office by giving die ViceChancellor three months’ written notice or such longer or shorter notice as he or she and the Vice Chancellor may agree. (2) Subject to subsection (3), die Vice-Chancellor may suspend or terminate the appointment of a person as dean or director— (a) on the recommendation of a committee referred to in Statute 11; or (b) for other good cause. (3) A dean or director whose appointment has been terminated in terms of subsection (2) may appeal to the Council within fourteen days of being notified of the suspension or termination, and on any such appeal the Council may confirm, vary or rescind the suspension or termination, as the case may be, or give such other direction in the matter as it thinks appropriate. Composition of faculty or institute hoards 13. For each faculty or institute there shall be a faculty or institute board which shall consist— (a) (b) (c) (d) all the full-time members of the academic staff of the faculty or institute; and such persons as may be assigned to the faculty board by the Senate; and two students elected annually by the students in the faculty or institute; and one member elected annually by and from among the non-academic fulltime staff of the faculty or institute. Functions of faculty or institute hoards 14. A faculty or institute board shall have the following functions — (a) to regulate, subject to the approval of the Senate and the dean or director of the faculty, the teaching and study of the subjects assigned to the faculty or institute; (b) to report through the dean of faculty, to the Senate on any matter specifically relating to the work of the faculty or institute; to deal with any matter referred or delegated to it by the Senate; to appoint committees, which may include a minority of persons who are not members of the faculty or institute board, to carry out any of the duties or exercise any of the powers of the board. (c) (d) Meetings of faculty or institute boards 15. (1) The dean of each faculty or director of each institute shall call regular meetings of die faculty or institute board at which matters relating to the policy of the faculty or institute and appointments shall be discussed and recommendations adopted for submission to the appropriate authorities on appointments. 180