The Position of the Board of Trustees in Iranian Higher Education System

Since the beginning of the establishment of the board of trustee of Iranian universities and higher education research institutes, their legal obligations have been challenged by regulatory-executive system.Therefore, the ratification of section a of article (49) of the 4th development plan Act that allows public academies and higher education research institutes and cultural schools to be administered only according to ad hoc organizational, financial, bureaucratic, and employment regulations approved by the relative board of trustees regardless of complying with bureaucratic public laws is known as a turning point of board of trustees obligations, however these legal obligations face with organizational and trans organizational challenges.In this regard the paper defines legal capacities of section a of article (49) of the 4th development plan Act by revising the background and it discusses the main problems face with its enforcement.