The meeting was opened and the agenda was presented by the Chairman of the Academic Council of the YSU IB, Director of the branch M. Otaryan. Referring to the elections of the deans of the two departments of the YSU IB, the Faculties of Humanities and Economics, Mr. Otaryan presented that in accordance with the established procedure and his order No. 213-1 of December 26, 2025, a competition was announced on the official website of the branch for the filling of the specified vacant positions. The process of nominating candidates began from the moment of publication of the announcement and, according to the established deadlines, ended on January 17, 2026.

According to the information presented by the Scientific Secretary, the following persons submitted applications for the position of dean within the established deadline:

1. For the position of dean of the Faculty of Humanities: Candidate of Historical Sciences, Associate Professor Natella Serozhi Grigoryan. The nomination of the candidate was guaranteed by the structural divisions of the faculty.

2. For the position of Dean of the Faculty of Economics: Candidate of Physical and Mathematical Sciences, Associate Professor Alexan Shamili Margaryan. The candidate was nominated by the departments of the Faculty of Economics.

The documents of both candidates fully comply with the minimum requirements set out in point 3 of the procedure for the selection of the Dean of the Faculty of Humanities of YSU IB and the announcement of the competition. The packages submitted by the candidates include all the necessary documents, and there are all the legal grounds for moving to the next stage of the selection process. Accordingly, the floor was given to the candidates to present their programmatic provisions.

After the candidates presented the development programs of the faculties for 2026-2030, the members of the Academic Council had the opportunity to ask them their questions.

Guided by Part 7 of Article 29 of the RA Law on Higher Education and Science, Sub-paragraph 1 of Clause 23 of the YSU IB Academic Council Statute and Clause 10 of the “Competence of the Academic Council” section of the YSU IB  Academic Council’s Rules of Procedure, as well as taking as a basis Clauses 26 and 27 of the Procedure for the Election of the Dean of the Faculty of the YSU IB Academic Council and Protocols No. 1 and No. 2 of the Counting Commission on the Results of the Closed, Secret Voting, the YSU IB Academic Council decided to approve the protocols on the results of the vote on the election of the Deans of the Faculties presented by the Counting Commission formed at the meeting of the YSU IB Academic Council.

According to the results of the closed (secret) vote, Natella Serozhi Grigoryan was elected as the Dean of the Faculty of Humanities for a period of 5 years, and Aleksan Shamili Margaryan as the Dean of the Faculty of Economics, on which occasion, on behalf of the directorate and all staff of YSU IB, we warmly congratulate them, wishing them fruitful and productive work.

On the other issue, the results of the student surveys for the 2024-2025 academic year on the quality and effectiveness of teaching at YSU IB, were reported by the Head of the Educational and Methodological Department A. Davtyan. In particular, it was noted that the Educational and Methodological Department jointly organized the surveys with the faculties in accordance with the procedure, questionnaire and schedule of the "Student Survey on the Quality and Efficiency of Teaching at Yerevan State University" (the first semester surveys for full-time students were conducted from February 5-20, for distance learning students from March 12-26, and the second semester surveys for full-time and distance learning students from July 1 to September 7). The surveys were conducted online in both the on-site and off-site learning systems, via university email addresses.

The reliability of the survey results is determined by the level of student participation. 650 out of 1098 students of the branch's on-site education (59.20% of the main student body) and 266 out of 857 distance learning students (31.04% of the main student body) participated in the surveys for the 2024-2025 academic year.

The first two questions of the questionnaire, which refer to corruption phenomena, do not constitute a percentage in the branch. The third question refers to the work of educational program supervisors. 900 students answered this question in the on-site and off-site learning system, of which 826 (92%) considered the work of educational program leaders effective. The other questions refer to the assessment of the work of the faculties, dean's offices, professional chairs and lecturers in the organization and implementation of education.

The survey results were sent to faculties and professional departments to discuss them in meetings, present proposals on the opinions expressed, and possible solutions to the problems raised.