The Election of a New Dean

(1) The Dean is appointed by the Rector of Masaryk University based on nomination by the Senate.

(2) The candidate for the Dean of the Faculty is nominated based on resolution of the Senate.

(3) The date of the Senate meeting where a debate will be held on a nomination for the Dean will be determined by the Senate so that it is held not earlier than four months and not later than two months before expiry of the current Dean’s term in office.

(4) To prepare the debate on the nomination for the Dean of the Faculty and the procedure in the actual voting, the Senate will elect a committee composed of members of the academic community of the Faculty (hereinafter the “Committee”). Each electoral district (pursuant to Art. 10 of the Statute) is represented in the Committee by one member. A member of the Senate may not be a member of the Committee. The chairperson of the Committee will be elected by the Senate.

(5) At least one month before the date of the Senate meeting where a debate will be held on the nomination for the Dean, the Committee will invite the academic community on the Faculty’s website to propose candidates for the position of Dean. Proposals for candidates will be accepted by the Committee during a period of at least 14 days; the acceptance of the proposals will end not later than 14 days before the date set for the debate on the nomination for the Dean.

(6) A candidate for the position of Dean of the Faculty may be proposed to the Committee by any member of the academic community of the Faculty. No one may propose more than one person. No one may propose him/herself.

(7) Candidates are proposed to the Committee electronically through the Information System of Masaryk University by an e-mail sent to volba.dekana@sci.muni.cz. The Committee will confirm the acceptance of each proposal to its proponent and will ask the candidate, without undue delay, whether he/she accepts the candidacy.

(8) Each proposed candidate who agrees with the candidacy must provide the Committee with all the following underlying documents by the set deadline:

1. written consent to the candidacy;
2. professional curriculum vitae.
3. recent photograph;
4. brief formulation of the goals that he/she would like to achieve if elected as the Dean of the Faculty, including the means to achieve them;
5. brief proposal for an update to the Strategic Outlook for Educational and Creative Activities of the Faculty which he/she would strive to achieve;
6. an affirmation on his/her membership of the academic community at a different faculty or higher education institution, membership of governing bodies of legal persons, his/her own business activities and employment with an employer other than Masaryk University.

If all the required underlying documents are not delivered within the set deadline, the Committee will annul his/her candidacy.

(9) The complete underlying documents provided by all the candidates will be published by the Committee on the Faculty’s website, all at the same time, not later than 7 days before the debate on the nomination for the Dean of the Faculty by the Senate.

(10) The debate on the nomination for the Dean of the Faculty held at the Senate’s meeting will be preceded by an assembly of the Faculty’s academic community, which will be convened and chaired by the Chairperson of the Senate (Art. 7 (3) of the Statute) and whose objective will be to provide space to members of the academic community of the Faculty to hold a debate with the candidates for the position of Dean. At this assembly, each candidate will present a concise statement corresponding to the items listed in paragraph 8 (d) and (e) of this Annex, and will engage in a debate with the members of the academic community, which will be moderated by the chairperson of the Committee or a member of the Committee authorised by the chairperson, as appropriate.

(11) The Chairperson of the Senate will inform the Rector sufficiently in advance of the announcement of elections, acceptance of candidates and the dates of the assembly of the academic community of the Faculty and meeting of the Academic Senate of the Faculty to debate and resolve on the nomination of the Dean, including the presentation of candidates and their programme declarations; the Rector may then participate in the assembly and in the meeting (according to the applicable provisions of the MU Statute).

(12) If the debate with the candidates continues and also takes place during the meeting of the Senate, the chairperson of the Committee or a member of the Committee authorised by the chairperson, as appropriate, will again moderate the debate and will direct the actual voting on the nomination of the Dean.

(13) Following the presentation of candidates for the office of Dean of the Faculty and the subsequent debate, the Senate will vote by a secret ballot on the nomination of the Dean. Voting will take place using ballots with a full, alphabetically ordered and numbered list of all the candidates. Each member of the Senate will express his/her vote by marking a number of a single candidate. Any ballot that is otherwise modified is invalid. A nomination for the Dean is adopted if a majority of all members of the Senate vote for one of the candidates.

(14) If none of the candidates receives the necessary number of votes in the first round pursuant to the preceding paragraph, the second round of secret ballot takes place immediately; the procedure in voting is the same in the second round, but it involves only two candidates who have received the highest numbers of votes in the first round. In case of equality of votes cast for more than two candidates in the first place or for two or more candidates in the second place, all these candidates will advance to the second round.

(15) If a decision on a nomination for the Dean of the Faculty is not made even in the second round, the Senate will appoint, during the same meeting, a new date for a debate on the nomination for the Dean; the new date will be at least one month after the present meeting. Without delay, the Committee will invite the academic community of the Faculty on the Faculty’s website to submit further proposals of candidates (pursuant to paragraphs 6 and 7) not later than two weeks before the set date of the new debate on the nomination for the Dean in the Senate. The further procedure will be governed by paragraph 8 et seq. The previous candidates must again give their consent to the candidacy and may modify the underlying documents they have previously submitted under paragraph 8. The provisions of paragraph 3 of this Annex shall not apply in this case.

(16) If the Senate does not agree on a nomination for the Dean of the Faculty following the new debate, the meeting will be repeated pursuant to paragraph 14 of this Annex to the Statute.

(17) The Committee will draw up a record of all the acts under paragraph 5 et seq., including the result of voting on the nomination for the Dean; the original counterpart of the record will be confirmed by signatures of all its members. The Senate will publish and archive the minutes in the same manner as the minutes of the actual meeting.

(18) The Chairperson of the Senate will submit the nomination for the Dean to the Rector of Masaryk University not later than three days of approval of the nomination by the Senate. If the Senate is unable to submit a nomination for the Dean not later than one month before the end of the term of office of the Dean, the Chairperson of the Senate will inform the Rector of the situation and of the further steps to be taken.