Faculty Board

The Faculty Board is the highest decision-making body of each faculty and always meets on the second Wednesday of the month. Topics are generally university-related policy issues that affect the faculty. These include, for example, developments concerning teaching staff, distribution of the budget or events. The Dean chairs meetings and leads the discussion. Two representatives from each status group make up the voting members of the Faculty Board: two professors, two technical and administrative staff members, two scientific staff members and two students.

For issues concerning study and teaching, five more professors are included, since the professor status group has a majority by law in such cases. Other people are usually present in the public part of the meeting, such as heads of various institutes or, in the case of acute concerns, experts from the respective departments. Students are directly elected to the Faculty Board. 

For members of the Faculty Board, it is important to attend all meetings, as it is here that important decisions concerning faculties are made. At the meetings, the agenda – which is decided upon in advance – is generally very strictly adhered to; it is not so easy to spontaneously introduce personal points. These must be submitted to the meeting of the Extended Dean’s Office at least one week in advance.

Students are directly elected to the Faculty Board. They form a team of two on the Faculty Board. They discuss the agenda of the upcoming meetings together and, if possible, also with their Faculty Staff Council. 

The Extended Dean’s Office always meets on the first Wednesday of the month and discusses the agenda for the Faculty Board. Many of the members in the Extended Dean’s Office meeting are also in the Faculty Board (and vice versa), although not all of them. Meetings of the Extended Dean’s Office have no set agenda and minutes are not taken. In these meetings, unplanned or ›freer‹ discussions are often held and information is exchanged. Only one of the two students from the Faculty Board takes part in these meetings.