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	Martin Bruns Claus Unzen Tabea Zimmermann Antje Weithaas William Forman Jörg Mainka Birgitta Wollenweber Deputy: Christine Schäfer Deputy: Anna Korondi Deputy: Claudio Bohórquez Deputy: n.n. Deputy: Sanja Fister Deputy: Wolfgang Heiniger Deputy: n.n.
Academic Employees	Ron Lepinat Anita Keller Deputy: Patrick Braun Deputy: Jonathan Ware
Students	n.n. Julius Engelbach Deputy: Marcel Raschke Deputy: Kristina Krahn
Additional Employees	Alexander Piefke Maren Brinkhues de Valencia Deputy: Heike Nagel Deputy: Edith Reichel

Extended Academic Senate

Professors	Byron Knutson Stephan Picard Ralf Forster Dr. Stefan Drees Deputy: Ewa Wolak Deputy: Stephan Forck Deputy: Marie-Luise Neunecker Deputy: Andrea Tober
Academic Employees	Katrin Dasch Deputy: Sabine Sava
Students	Caroline Schnitzer Jonas Kämper Deputy: Nikita Swiridow Deputy: Janneke Dupre
Additional Employees	Ilona Tornauer Deputy: Michaela Engelbrecht