Academic Senate

The tasks of the Academic Senate arise from the Lower Saxony University Regulation (NHG):

The Academic Senate decides the rules of the university as far as this responsibility is not otherwise assigned, according to this law, or the basic rules of the faculty or another organ. It can decide on examination regulations for inter-faculty degree programs. It decides on the basic rules and their amendments by a majority of two-thirds of its members. The basic rules and their amendments require approval.

The Academic Senate decides on the development planning according to §1 Para. 3 Sentence 2 NHG, which is the basis for the target agreement as well as the equal opportunity plan with specific targets and timelines in consultation with the University Steering Committee. It adopts opinions on all self-administration affairs of fundamental importance, in particular, for the establishment, significant modification or suspension of faculties, as well as for the introduction, significant modification and closure of degree programs . The University Steering Committee is accountable to the Academic Senate in all affairs of self-administration in its decision jurisdiction. These include, in particular, measures within the meaning of §17, Para. 2, Sentence 1 NHG. The Academic Senate has a comprehensive right to information to the University Steering Committee. It must be given an opportunity to comment in good time before a decision is made on the business plan and prior to the conclusion of a target agreement.

The Academic Senate is made up of 13 members with voting rights. They are elected directly by groups. The University Steering Committee, the management of the Institute of Music, Equal Opportunity officer, the Chairperson of the Staff Council, a representative of the AStA as well as the Legal Affairs Department also participate.

Chair: Prof. Dr. Andreas Bertram
Minutes: Mahmoud Tarabishi

Professors:

• Prof. Dr.-Ing. Jürgen Wübbelmann (Engineering and Computer Science)
• Prof. Dr. Nicole Böhmer (Business Management and Social Sciences)
• Prof. Dr.-Ing. Johanna Schoppengerd (Agricultural Sciences and Landscape Architecture)
• Prof. Dr. Markus Eck (Engineering and Computer Science)
• Prof. Dr.-Ing. Volker Piwek (Management, Culture and Technology)
• Prof. Dr. Dipl.-Sportwiss. Dirk Möller (Business Management and Social Sciences)
• Prof. Dr. Elke Schweers (Engineering and Computer Science)

Research assistants:

• Hiltraut Czygan (Agricultural Sciences and Landscape Architecture)
• Annika Griefahn M.Sc. (Business Management and Social Sciences)

MTV (Technical and Management Services):

• Gerhard Müller (Business Management and Social Sciences)
• Volker Peters (Registrar's Office)

Students:

• Malte Bergmann
• Benedikt Daniel Gottuk

Advisory members of the Academic Senate:

• Prof. Dr. Andreas Bertram (President)
• Dr. Lars Kulke (Senior Vice President)
• Prof. Dr. Andrea Braun von Reinersdorff (Vice President)
• Prof. Dr. Bernd Lehmann (Vice President)
• Prof. Dr. Alexander Schmehmann (Vice President)
• Prof. Dr. Ingmar Ickerott (Vice President)
• Prof. Sascha Wienhausen (Management Institute of Music of the HSOS)
• Bettina Charlotte Belker (Equal Opportunity Officer)
• Ursula Tranel-Tieben (Chairman of the Staff Council)
• Erik Trüün (AStA, report university policy)

The public records and protocol sections of the Academic Senate are available to the university public on the "Gremieninformationssystem". There is a non-public area where all meeting documents are available for members of the Academic Senate.