The University is obliged to follow the organizing law of governmental universities that entails limited election of the governing body by supreme Committee chosen by the University Council. Assiut University and by low allows its student to elect student union in each facility that is in turn elect the university student board and head.
The governor of Assiut State is a member in the university council similarly, the corresponding head of syndicates are members in the board of corresponding faculties as representatives of stakeholders in the governing board of the faculties and university.
As a governmental body The Department of Central Observation of Governmental Work is continuously monitoring the finance of the university and the university itself has its own policy (published in Arabic) to self-monitor its staff and financial system and yearly publish its financial data.
Assiut University gave her staff priorities for research on which the university itself funds, but the staff and students have to produce any other type of research after having the pertained institutional board approval. NO special policy declared for public or political speech. 
Our university is in a continuous work with the government either on national or local level. It provides free and payed on-job-advice and technical support to the government in all aspects. The state usually depends on the university staff as consultants in putting policies for projects and initiatives to develop Assiut governorate, they provide agricultural, engineering, medical, educational, veterinary and financial consultancies. Moreover, Assiut University got a lot of funded projects from the National and International bodies for building its capacity and develop the quality assurance of its management.