What is the Faculty Student Academic Affairs Committee (FSAAC)?
The Faculty Student Academic Affairs Committee is a committee of the Faculty Board. It has been delegated powers to make recommendations to the Faculty Board on matters relating to the academic affairs of students, collectively and/or individually.The Committee considers student matters relating to, but not exclusively, the following:
- Deferral of registration
- Cancellation of registration
- Fee refund
- Leave of absence
- Permanent withdrawal from programme
- Re-admission
- Re-instatement
- Programme completion
- Deferral of examination
- Interfaculty transfers.
The following shall pertain as indicated in the “Terms of Reference” of the FSAAC:
–“The Committee shall consider requests from students submitted to the Dean of the Faculty copied to the Student Relations Officer. (See “Schedule of Faculty Meetings” on page 16).
– Requests that are within policy shall be decided on by the Committee and the decisions forwarded to the Student Relations Office for dispatch. – Requests that are outside of policy shall be referred to the Faculty Board for a resolution or to the Board of Undergraduate Studies (BUS) or the Board of Graduate Studies, Research and Entrepreneurship(SGSRE), if not resolved by the Faculty Board.
– On matters that require Academic Board’s review or approval, the Committee shall refer those matters to the BUS or SGSRE for submission to the Academic Board
Student Affairs Review Panel.
– In discharging its duties, the Committee shall be guided by the appropriate University Policies and Regulations, as well as the relevant Faculty Regulations.”