UVIC Senate

The Senate governs academic matters at the University of Victoria (while the Board of Governors oversees operational management of UVIC). The Senate website is here:

http://www.uvic.ca/universitysecretary/senate/

16 students are elected to senate. Effective 2010, three of these seats are reserved for graduate students**

In addition, there are several senate committees with seats for graduate students, including:

Academic Standards, Libraries, Appeals, Awards, Continuing Studies, Learning & Teaching and Planning.

Elections of students to senate take place annually each Spring, while committee seats are filled by the GSS in the Fall.

**(Until November 2009, only one seat was reserved for graduate students. The increase in graduate student seats is a result of a GSS campaign to increase graduate representation at UVIC. To learn more about GSS campaigns, see the Events & Campaigns and About sections of this website).