Tasks of the 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 employees, students, and employees in technology, service and administration, 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.
- 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 | Prof. Andrea Tober |
| Professors | Prof. Byron Knutson (list 1) Sub. list 1: Prof. Anna Korondi |
Academic Employees | Gunther Leonhardt Annika Treutler Sub.: Mikhail Mordvinov |
| Students | Pedro José Cases Sanchez |
| Employees in technology, service and administration | Johannes Hellmann Annemarie Stadler-Janetzki 1st sub.: Svenja Kugel 2nd sub.: Karin Kickbusch |
Extended Academic Senate
| Professors | Prof. Louise Pollock (list 1) Sub. list 2: Prof. Maria Baptist |
| Academic Employees | Ikuko Odai |
| Students | Eléonore Rannou |
| Employees in technology, service and administration | Peggy Bertaux 1st sub.: Heike Nagel 2nd sub.: Eva Gabronova 3rd sub.: Marit Magister |