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Other AV���� Council Standing Committees provide in-depth curriculum (the CPR committees), academic policy (ARP), and calendar review (CCC). These standing committees make recommendations to AV���� Council and Council relies on its standing committees to ensure appropriate program area expertise as well as the independent perspective provided by additional members from outside the program area. All standing committees report directly to AV���� Council.

In December 2005, the AV���� AV���� Council officially took over from an Interim AV���� Council in place during the transition from Okanagan University College (OUC) to AV����.

AV���� AV���� Council has its roots in the Okanagan University College AV���� Council. The OUC AV���� Council met for the first time in February of 1995 following substantial changes to the College and Institute Act of British Columbia (“the Act ”). These changes to the Act included the establishment of a bicameral system of institutional governance in which the Board of Governors and AV���� Council were assigned roles and responsibilities.

OUC AV���� Council met monthly on a regular basis from February 1995 until April 2005. On March 17, 2004, the BC government announced the 2005 dissolution of OUC and the institution was placed under the control of a government-appointed Public Trustee.

The South Kelowna, Vernon, Penticton, and Salmon Arm campuses of OUC became the new AV���� and the AV���� Interim AV���� Council was formed with faculty, staff and students elected to the former OUC AV���� Council and moving to AV����. To ensure representation from all regions and representative groups, a small number of volunteers were also named to the Interim AV���� Council. These members, as well as administrators named by the AV���� President, met from May to November of 2005.

Following elections, the formally-constituted AV���� AV���� Council began work on December 7, 2005. 

The bylaws under which AV���� Council operates are available.

While some members of AV���� Council are appointed, others are elected. Faculty (10 seats) and support staff (two seats) elections take place in the spring; student (four seats) elections take place in the fall. The Election rules are available online.