Academic Council

Academic Council Meeting Schedule 2025/2026

• AC Submission Form
• Academic Council Standing Orders
• Award of Aegrotat and Posthumous Awards
• Propose Title for Professor and Full Professor
• Change in Title for Professor and Full Professor
• UCD Subject Register - Forms and Procedures
• AC Schedule of Reserved Decision-Making

Chair
Professor Orla Feely, President

Secretary
Professor Colin Scott, Registrar

Academic Council Membership 2025-2026

Please note: UCD Academic Council membership has changed following the approval of a revised composition (approved Autumn 2020, for effect in September 2021).

• AC Minutes 12 February 2025
• AC Minutes 23 October 2024
• AC Minutes 20 September 2024
• AC Minutes 30 April 2024
• AC Minutes 23 November 2023
• AC Minutes 27 April 2023
• AC Minutes 24 November 2022
• AC Minutes 21 April 2022
• AC Minutes 25 November 2021

The purpose of Academic Council is to:

1. Direct the educational matters of the University such as curriculum, education provision, academic policy and regulatory oversight through approval of Academic Regulations, Student Code and new academic policies. Oversee and assure the quality and standards of academic matters of Recognised Colleges in general and in particular where programmes and activities lead to the award of degrees and qualifications of the University.
   
   
2. Consider matters of academic governance of the University.
   
   
3. Advise and make recommendations to the University on academic institutional and sectoral initiatives and strategic priorities such as education strategy, HEA policy and other institutional and national initiatives.
   
   
4. Oversee the academic governance framework: constitute, reconstitute and discontinue committees.
   
   
5. Maintain oversight of functions undertaken by subcommittees with a key role in approving an annual work programme for subcommittees and prescribing annual reporting requirements.

• AC Terms of Reference