In accordance with all requirements and guidelines specified in the UPEI Centres Policy and its Appendix A, the CKS shall be managed properly and transparently as follows. In accordance with the Centres Policy: Appendix A-IV (Constitutions/By-Laws), the Centre
a) is governed by “the pertinent regulations of the Senate,”
b) “will maintain liaison with the University” according to “the procedures that are specified in its by-laws,” and
c) will submit its report annually or every two years according to the regular schedule and guidelines.
The CKS consists of and is managed by the Centre Director and five or six members of the Centre Advisory Committee including the Director.1 These Arts faculty members shall be members of the Asian Studies Coordinating Committee as well.2 All 5–6 members of the Advisory Committee have the voting rights. This is to be done according with the UPEI Centres Policy.
The Centre Director shall be a tenured professor in the Faculty of Arts who is a KS expert with knowledge and experience in handling Korean/Asian Studies and international programs, projects, funding applications, and grant agreements. To be selected within and by the Centre Advisory Committee, and this recommendation shall be submitted to the Dean of Arts and Associate Vice-President Research. The Director’s term is a 5-year period and the incumbent Director is eligible for re-appointment to a maximum of five more years. The Director chairs the Centre Advisory Committee in all regards.
The CKS Director ensures that all research, scholarly, and related programs, activities, and events of the Centre “operate in a manner consistent with University policies and procedures, and supportive of the positive reputation of the University.” The Director shall also maintain effective communication with the Dean of Arts, AVPR, and VPAR, especially with respect to “funding, staffing, and negotiations concerning contracts and grants from funding organizations” (Centres Policy, Appendix A, sec. 8, p. 7).
No external parties will interfere with the Centre’s mission, structure, by-laws, management, and functions. Although the Centre is to be mostly funded externally, UPEI will exercise its “overarching principles” and rights, including academic freedom, intellectual property, publication rights, support of students, and so forth. The Centre will follow the Collective Agreement and UPEI’s Human Resources policies. procedures, and guidelines regarding faculty or sessional hiring, faculty/staff review, budgeting, accounting, and so on.
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- Centres Policy, sec. 3 (Centre Director) and sec. 4 (Centre Advisory Committee), pp. 4–5, and Appendix A, sec. 7 (Management of Centres), p. 5. ↩︎
- Current five members of the Asian Studies Committee are Professors Edward Chung (Asian Studies Director; Religious Studies), Henry Srebrnik (Pol Sci), Scott Lee (Modern Languages), and Ian Dowbiggin (History), and Peter Koritansky (Philosophy). ↩︎