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 |
| 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 |