Ownership
- Five Northern Savonian municipalities: Iisalmi, Kiuruvesi, Kuopio, Lapinlahti and Varkaus.
Each member municipality has votes in the municipality consortium council depending on the three-year average number of its inhabitants studying at Savonia. Currently Kuopio has slightly over half of the votes.
The consortium council term is three years (current 2005-2008). The council has 17 members, of which seven are from Kuopio, five from Varkaus, three from Iisalmi, one from Kiuruvesi and one from Lapinlahti. Municipality votes are shared between members who are attending the council meeting - e.g., if five members from Kuopio are available, they each have higher amount of votes than they would in case of full attendance.
The consortium council selects a consortium board (2005-2008), which has nine members. They are not listed according to their municipality. The board is more active than the council, but still consists of politicians, not professional managers. This dual structure has been recently seen as a somewhat useless allocation of resources and could be removed in ongoing organisational restructuring. Change to a limited company has been under discussion.
The rector serves in a dual role, as he is also director of the owner consortium of municipalities.
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