Faculty Board FSW

The Faculty Board is the highest administrative body in the Faculty.

Tasks Faculty Board

establishing the course programmes, after approval by the Faculty Council, and issuing more detailed regulations concerning the set-up and scale of examinations;
establishing the Faculty regulations, after approval by the Faculty Council;
approving research programmes;
drafting the annual Faculty budget
advising the University Board on the appointment of professors.

Members

The Faculty Board consists of 4 members of the Faculty community, all appointed by the University Executive Board. The chairperson, with the title of ‘Dean’, is recruited from the professors. The Faculty Board includes at least one student member (called "assessor):

Faculteitsbestuur van FSW — Left to right: Robin Buijs, Bart Barendregt, Sarah de Rijcke, Egon Houben, Kristiaan van der Heijden

Robin Buijs Assessor FSW
Kristiaan van der Heijden Vice Dean / Associate Professor
Egon Houben Director of Operations
Sarah de Rijcke Dean / Professor Science and Evaluation Studies
Bart Barendregt Vice-dean of Research/ Professor Anthropology of Digital Diversity

Responsibilities

The Faculty Board is accountable to the University Executive Board, and is responsible for:

the organisation and coordination of education and research in the disciplines subsumed under the Faculty
monitoring the execution of course and research programmes
preparing the consultative meetings with the Faculty Council, and
announcing and carrying out the decisions taken there.

Management

The Faculty is run according to the principles of Integral Management. The Faculty Board is head of the Faculty, and is ultimately responsible for policy and administration. The Dean is Chair of the Faculty Board.