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Communication and one representing the Committee of the Vice-Chancellors of Sri Lanka.
The Registrar of the University, who is the chief custodian of the university properties and is
in-charge of the non-academic affairs of the University acts as the secretary of the Council.
Figure 1 illustrates the organizational structure of the OUSL.

The highest academic body of the University is the Senate which is chaired by the Vice
Chancellor and comprises all the Deans of the Faculties, Heads of the Academic Departments,
Directors of the various entities of the university, Librarian, and representatives from Faculties.
Each Faculty of the University will have its own Faculty Board chaired by the relevant Dean to
recommend proposals to the Senate.

Figure 1
Organizational Structure

The university has a Chancellor who is the ceremonial head of the institute who presides over
the annual convocation of the University. The first ordinance (legal governance document
passed by the parliament of Sri Lanka which stipulates the legal conduct of the university) of
the OUSL based on which the university was established was later replaced by a new ordinance

The Open University of Sri Lanka (OUSL)