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University Act 2002—A Disputed Reform |
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by Kurt Grünewald
The 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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