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"The Dean is the highest representative of the Faculty of Arts and acts and makes decisions for MU in the affairs of the Faculty of Arts. He/she is responsible for his/her activities to the faculty's Academic Senate and the MU Rector. (...) The term of office of the dean is four years; the same person may serve as dean for a maximum of two consecutive terms. The dean is appointed by the MU Rector on the basis of a proposal of the FA AS. The FA AS decides on the proposal for the appointment of the dean in the manner prescribed by law and the Rules of Procedure of the FA AS. The proposal for the appointment of the FA Dean is submitted by the FA AS President to the MU Rector no later than one month before the end of the term of office of the current Dean."
From the Statute of the Faculty of Arts of Masaryk University, Article 10
8 November 2021
The official announcement of the dean's election and the opening of the collection of applications for candidacy will take place at the MU Faculty of Arts Academic Senate meeting on Monday 8 November 2021.
8-30 November 2021
The collection of sealed applications for candidacy will take place on 8-30 November 2021 in the mailbox of the Student Chamber of the Academic Senate of the Faculty of Arts MU at the FA MU Registry.
The application for candidacy must include a written consent to candidacy, a lustration certificate (a declaration by the candidate that he/she fulfills the provisions of Section 2(1)(a-h) of Act No. 451/1991 Coll., laying down certain other prerequisites for the performance of certain functions in state bodies and organizations of the Czechoslovak Republic, the Czech Republic and the Slovak Republic, as amended), the program with which the candidate intends to run and a preliminary list of vice-deans.
December 2021
Academic debates with the candidates or nominees will take place during December 2021. We will inform you of the details in due course.
January 2022
The first and possible second rounds of election will take place at the AS FA MU meeting in the first half of January 2022, and the possible third round of the election will then take place a week later.
The official collection of applications for candidacy will be opened on 8 November 2021. Before this date, those interested in publishing their intention to run (with a link to the forthcoming election programme) should contact AS FA MU at akademicky.senat@phil.muni.cz.
Doc. Václav Štěpánek, former and current chairman of the Academic Senate of the Faculty of Arts, addresses the faculty public. He recaps the circumstances that accompanied the beginning of the new Senate's term of office, looks forward to the important tasks that await the Senate and invites the entire academic community to discuss them.
The collection of nominations will start in November, the election itself will take place in January. The Senate also recommended the latest conversions of degree programs for forwarding to the Science Board.