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University Act 2002—A Disputed Reform Print E-mail

by Kurt Grünewald

Gruenewald_KurtThe federal law for the organization of the universities (University Act of 2002) transformed universities from entities under State regulation to fully legal entities under public law. Simultaneously, their administrative structures were streamlined, and the position ofthe university president ( Rektor) was afforded additional power. Introduced as a complement to the university president and the senate (Senat) was the university’s board of trustees (Universitätsrat), comparable to the board of trustees of a US university. Consequently, most provisions of the University Organization Act (UOG) of 1993 and the Art University Act (KUOG) were rendered ineffective. In the spirit of deregulation, consolidation, and streamlining, the new act regulates not only organizational law, but personnel and academic realms as well.


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