The Rector is the chief executive officer and representative of the College. The Rector acts and makes decisions in all matters not delegated by law, the Deed of Foundation or the Organisation and Operation Regulations (OOR) to another person or body [OOR 2.4].
Senior Leaders [OOR 2.1.2.5]
The Library is headed by a Director, appointed jointly by the Maintaining Church and the Rector, who also jointly exercise the employer’s rights over the Director [OOR 2.5.5.4].
The College’s strategic advisory body for quality assurance and quality development is the seven-member Quality Assurance Committee [OOR 2.2].
The College’s seven-member College Council [OOR 2.3] is responsible for preparing, implementing, initiating and reviewing economic decisions, and for taking operational decisions in matters delegated to it by the Senate.
The College’s principal academic body is the five-member Scientific Council [OOR 2.5.3.2], which also serves as the College’s research body and the strategic governing body of the East–West Research Institute [OOR 2.5.1].
The six-member Education Council [OOR 2.5.2.7] is the professional advisory body to the Vice-Rector for Education, who is also the Head of the Dharma Gate Education Institute [OOR 2.5.2].
In the preparation of professional decisions related to curriculum development, the Education Council, extended with the Programme Directors, the Rector and the Director of Academic Affairs, acts as the Programme Committee, whose recommendations must be taken into account by the Vice-Rector for Education when making decisions [OOR 2.5.2.8].
The chief governing body of the College is the 29-member Senate (Szenátus, [OOR 2.1]). Making use of the option provided in Section 92 (6) bc) of the Higher Education Act for church institutions of higher education, the Senate functions as a community forum based on Buddhist tradition. In practice, nearly the entire faculty of this small institution is represented as elected members, with fair representation of students and the administration. Student delegates are elected for a one-year term, while all other members serve a four-year term. Ex officio, only the representative of the Maintaining Church is a member; the Rector may be elected as a member in his or her capacity as a faculty member. The Senate does not have a permanent chair but elects a presiding chairperson for each meeting. The Senate may place any matter on its agenda. It elects the Rector, as well as the faculty and administrative members of both decision-preparing and decision-making bodies, and participates in the election and recall of senior officers.
Among the bodies dealing with student affairs, the three-member Student Affairs Committee (SAfC [OOR 2.6.1]), chaired by the Director of Academic Affairs, plays a prominent role. In addition to serving as the general first-instance decision-making body [GSPR 2.2.2], it also performs the functions of the College’s credit transfer committee and the social and scholarship committee. Together with the Rector, and chaired by the Rector, it also functions as the institutional ERASMUS Committee.
The first-instance body for student disciplinary cases is the three-member Student Disciplinary Committee (SDCR [OOR 2.6.2]), which operates in disciplinary panels and whose procedures are regulated by the Student Disciplinary and Compensation Regulations.
The second-instance student body is the Student Appeals Committee (SApC [OOR 2.6.3]), chaired by the Rector, which rules in three-member panels on appeals against the decisions of first-instance bodies, in accordance with the second-instance procedural rules set out in Chapter 3 of the GSPR.
Matters of professional ethics concerning the Rector, as well as faculty and non-faculty staff of the College, fall under the jurisdiction of the Employee Ethics Committee (EEC [OOR 2.7]).
The operation of the Student Government (SG [OOR 3.2.4]) is regulated by its own Statutes. The President of the Student Government is a member of both the Senate and the College Council. Delegates of the Student Government’s Student Representation, for the duration of their mandate, participate in the work of the Senate, the College Council, the student affairs bodies ([OOR 2.6]), the Quality Assurance Committee, the admission examination boards, and the organisation of the Scientific Students’ Association. The Student Government has the right of consent in the adoption of the Academic and Examination Regulations, the Student Fees and Benefits Regulations, and the rules governing student evaluation of teaching. In the College budget, an amount is earmarked for the functioning of the Student Union representation. The Rector decides on its use, within the framework of legislation, on the basis of the Student Union’s proposal [STBR 3.2.2.1.9].
At the College’s Mánfa campus, the organisational framework for educational activities is provided by the Mánfa Educational Institute (abbreviated: DGBC-MEI) [OOR 2.5.2.B.1].
The Secretariat is responsible for administration, finance, academic affairs management, IT, and facility operations at the Mánfa campus [OOR 2.5.2.B.5].
For students enrolled at the Mánfa campus, the Mánfa Textbook Library provides free access to library infrastructure and services. It forms an integral part of the information system and services of the central Library, located at the Budapest headquarters [OOR 2.5.5]. Its collection and staff are professionally supervised by the central Library [OOR 2.5.2.B.8].
