Committee for Teaching & Study

Committee for Teaching and Study

The Senate established the standing Senate Committee for Teaching and Study. It supports the Senate in its duties, receives matters for final consideration and has been given decision-making powers by the Senate. The committee consists of eleven members and is chaired by the Vice-President of Academic and Student Affairs (without voting rights). The committee meetings are not public.

The tasks of the Committee are laid down in the university regulations:

Proposals for the establishment and withdrawal of study areas
Assignment of study programs to study areas
Enactment of examination regulations, enactment of study regulations
Election of the examination boards
Development proposals
Proposals for the allocation of apl professorships and the admission of scientific staff to the group of professors, in agreement with the Committee for Research and Development
Proposals for the establishment and cancellation of study programs and scientific and technical institutions in the field of teaching and study
Decision on working groups in the field of teaching and study
Regulation of the use of facilities for teaching and study within the framework of the user regulations
Proposal for the transfer of honorary professorships in agreement with the Committee for Research and Development

The Committee gives opinions on

target agreements with institutions of Hochschule Geisenheim University
target agreements with the HMWK
the Appeals Proposals of the Appeals Commissions

The Committee participates in

the election of the Vice-President of Teaching & Student Affairs
the election of heads of degree programs
the election of heads of study areas

Members of the Committee for Teaching & Study

The Committee is made up of eleven members: six Professors, two students, two members of the scientific staff and one administrative /technical member of staff. The heads of study areas are additional advisory members of the committee, unless they are among the elected members.

Term of office: 01.03.2020 - 28.02.2023