POWERS OF THE SENATE
The Senate has the power to establish the educational policies of the University and to make recommendations to the Board of Governors with respect to any matter relative to the operation of the University and without restricting the generality of the foregoing, this includes the power,
(a) to make recommendations to the Board of Governors relative to the creation, establishment, maintenance, modification, or removal of organizational structures such as faculties, schools, institutes, departments or chairs within the University;
(b) subject to the approval of the Board of Governors, in so far as the expenditure of funds is concerned, to establish, maintain, modify or remove, curricula of all courses of instruction including extension courses;
(c) to determine policies concerning the qualifications of faculty members within the University with respect to appointments or promotions in rank, or to the granting of tenure, in connection with research or teaching or academic administration;
(d) to determine standards of admission of students to the University;
(e) to consider and determine the conduct and results of examinations in all faculties or academic units;
(f) to hear and determine appeals from the decisions of the faculty councils on applications and examinations by students;
(g) to confer degrees, diplomas and certificates or other awards in any and all branches of learning and in any subject taught in the University or its federated or affiliated colleges;
(h) to confer honorary degrees in Divinity, without fees, upon the recommendation of any theological college federated or affiliated with the University;
(i) to confer honorary degrees in any department of learning;
(j) to undertake, consider and co-ordinate long-range academic planning;
(k) to consider and to recommend to the Board of Governors policies concerning the internal allocation or use of University resources;
(l) to consider and to recommend to the Board of Governors the federation or affiliation of the University with any college for teaching any branch of learning;
(m) to create councils and committees to exercise its powers;
(n) to provide, if considered necessary, for an executive committee which shall act in the name and on behalf of the Senate between regular meetings of the Senate; and
(o) to enact by-laws and regulations for the conduct of its affairs.