Committee for Teaching and Studying
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: 01.03.2023 - 31.03.2026
