Academic Senate

As the central administrative body of the Hanns Eisler School of Music, the Academic Senate (AS) discusses and makes decisions concerning policy and academic questions that affect the school as a whole. The Academic Senate consists of professors, academic staff, students, and other employees, who are elected at four year intervals by school members. With the exception of meetings concerning personnel an appointment matters, all sessions of the Academic Senate are public.

Tasks of the Academic Senate

To comment on drafts of the budget plan
To propose the establishment, modification, or elimination of organizational units
To establish or eliminate degree programs
To enact statutes
To establish guidelines for teaching, study, and examinations; to define procedural arrangements for school examinations across disciplines; as well as to issue opinions on study and exam regulations for the various departments
To adopt resolutions on school development plans and equipment planning as well as to define objectives regarding the appointment of instructors
To adopt resolutions concerning guidelines for the promotion of women and planning for the advancement of women
To issue opinions on proposals for appointments by the departments
To issue decisions of fundamental import concerning research and the promotion of young artistic talent
To adopt regulations concerning the utilization of school facilities
To determine enrollment figures
To coordinate the activities of the school’s departments and other facilities
To adopt resolutions concerning the selection of school directors as well as vice presidents and prorectors
To accept responsibility for other academic affairs which affect the school as a whole in the event that no other body has jurisdiction

Members

Academic Senate

Chair	Sarah Wedl-Wilson
Professors	Claudio Bohórquez Martin Bruns William Forman Jörg Mainka Wolfgang Redik Claus Unzen Birgitta Wollenweber 1st Deputy: Tabea Zimmermann 2nd Deputy: Sanja Fister 3rd Deputy: Christine Schäfer 4th Deputy: Kolja Blacher
Academic Employees	Patrick Braun Anita Keller 1st Deputy: Alexander Fleisch 2nd Deputy: Gunther Leonhardt
Students	Jonas Kämper Carl-Frederik Zeh 1st Deputy: Irina Bogdanova 2nd Deputy: Lara Meyer-Struthoff
Additional Employees	Johannes Hellmann Judith Linow 1st Deputy: Christine Lüderitz 2nd Deputy: Veronika Schneider

Extended Academic Senate

Professors	Stefan Drees Stewart Emerson Ulf Wallin Antje Weithaas 1st Deputy: Stephan Picard 2nd Deputy: Maria Baptist 3rd Deputy: Anna Korondi 4th Deputy: Byron Knutson
Academic Employees	Anja Freytag Deputy: Behrang Noipour
Students	Raquel Alves avid Marquard 1st Deputy: Johannes Jost 2nd Deputy: Nikita Swiridow
Additional Employees	Peggy Bertaux Deputy: Karin Kickbusch