University of Fulda

University of Fulda
founding	1974
Sponsorship	state
place	Fulda
state	Hesse
country	Germany
president	Karim Khakzar
Students	9500 (WS 2018/19)
Employee	611 (WS 2015/16)
including professors	149 (WS 2015/16)
Annual budget	€ 61.0 million
Website	www.hs-fulda.de

The Fulda University of Applied Sciences ( HS Fulda for short , formerly Fulda University of Applied Sciences) is a campus university for applied sciences, which was founded in 1974 as the fifth state university of applied sciences in the State of Hesse . With around 9,500 students, it currently covers eight subject areas and, as part of the Bologna Process, has had the courses fully accredited to the academic degrees Bachelor and Master .

It was the first university without the right to award doctorates to be accepted into the European University Association . The international name is "Hochschule Fulda - University of Applied Sciences" . 2016, the university became the first University of Applied Sciences in Germany, doctorates , and indeed for the Graduate Center Social Sciences with a focus on globalization, European integration and interculturalism awarded.

history

The university campus

The founding history is not very far back. It was not until after the Second World War that it was rooted, among other things, in the long traditions of teacher training in Fulda . This revived when the "Pedagogical Institute" was founded in 1949, the director of which was the pedagogue and writer Leo Weismantel . The direct predecessor institution of the Fulda University of Applied Sciences was the Pedagogical Institute, which opened on May 2, 1963 and served the training of teachers in the musical and technical subjects, which was headed by Wilhelm Himmerich until 1965 and then by Franz Handwerk. It had been part of the Giessen University of Applied Sciences since August 1st, 1971 . The first subject areas were " Pedagogy " (the successor to the Pedagogical Institute), " Social Pedagogy ", " Mathematics , Natural Sciences and Data Processing " and " Social and Cultural Studies ". Shortly afterwards, in the 1972/73 winter semester, the “ Social Work ” department was introduced.

On August 1, 1974, exactly three years after the founding of the Giessen University of Applied Sciences, the Fulda University of Applied Sciences was founded under the direction of Tassilo Wettengl. About 750 students were counted in the 1974/75 winter semester and the " Economics " department was also introduced in the same year . The new cafeteria was also opened in the 1970s and the “pedagogy” department was abolished. To date, the departments “ Applied Computer Science ” and “ Household and Nutrition ” (both for the winter semester 1982/83), “ Electrical Engineering ” (March 1993) and “ Care and Health ” (April 1994) have been introduced.

One of the many entrances to the campus of the Fulda University of Applied Sciences

At the 20th anniversary of the university in 1994, 3,500 students were counted. In 1998 Roland Schopf was elected Rector and in 2000 President. In 2002, among others, the social law course was introduced under the later Vice President Christian Schrader .

On May 15, 2006, the university was the first nationwide to go on strike against the tuition fees of the State of Hesse. Fees from 500 euros to 1500 euros per semester were planned. From the winter semester 2007/08, these were uniformly 500 euros plus the semester fee for two semesters . However, these were abolished again in the winter semester 2008/09.

On June 1, 2006, the former Fulda University of Applied Sciences was renamed Hochschule Fulda - University of Applied Sciences . This happened because, on the one hand, the Bologna Process was carried out, as a result of which bachelor and master degrees were introduced and the degrees no longer differ from those of a university and on the other hand because of the larger research offer .

Both at the Fulda University of Applied Sciences and at all other universities in the State of Hesse , the additional tuition fees of 500 euros introduced in the 2007/08 winter semester were abolished nationwide by the 2008/09 winter semester. The 1,000 euros that had been paid up to then were not reimbursed to the students, as these fees were largely determined to be constitutional despite the abolition.

In addition to the current range of subjects, the “ Business Informatics ” bachelor's degree in the Applied Computer Science department and “ Health Promotion ” in the Nursing and Health department will be introduced in the 2008/09 winter semester . In addition, the master's degree in " Systems Design & Production Management " in the electrical engineering and information technology department is planned for the 2009 summer semester .

Despite the rapid expansion to currently eight departments with over 140 positions for professors and almost as many employees, the Fulda University of Applied Sciences with around 8,500 students has remained manageable.

The Fulda University of Applied Sciences is a member of the Hesse Universities of Applied Sciences .

logo

The logo of the Fulda University of Applied Sciences is a three-leaf beech tree and is intended to represent the history of the Buchonia cultural landscape .

campus

From the barracks to the university

Fulda University of Applied Sciences Memorial plaque on the history of use

At the end of the 19th century, the university campus was built on and used as a barracks . With the development of new weapon technology for the German army , the artillery regiment that already existed at that time was restructured and its number increased significantly in the 19th century. As the site of the newly formed artillery regiments - the Regiment. 47 - Fulda was the second Hessian artillery regiment.

The former staff building of the barracks of today's Marquardstrasse

The Fulda barracks was built in neo-Gothic style between 1899 and 1901 by the Berlin architect August Menken under the execution of the Fulda architect Fritz Adam . Even then, when building the barracks, consideration was given to breaking up the barracks, which were divided into buildings. The main reason for this was the idea of ​​ensuring the possibility of using the building as a residential building in the event the garrison withdrew. There, the garrison with around 1,500 people formed a considerable part of the city, which around 1900 had around 17,000 inhabitants.

A total of ten barracks buildings still exist today, five of which are used by the University of Fulda. Some buildings are grouped in such a way that the former entrance area has been redesigned into a central multifunctional inner courtyard and, paved and planted, forms the heart of the campus.

The lamps for the circular lighting on campus sit on supports from the former stables that were demolished at the time. The buildings are largely uniformly designed brick buildings with a two- or three-storey middle section and raised and transverse side wings or corner pavilions. The roof forms are partly hip and partly saddle roofs, and alternately covered with slate or tile. The roofs are provided with differently shaped dormers.

One of the buildings has four floors and was built between 1986 and 1990 by the former Fulda State Building Authority - today's Fulda branch of the Hessian construction management. The old buildings, which were also stables and blacksmiths, were demolished because they were no longer usable.

The design is adapted to the historical buildings with the adoption of style elements and materials with the natural red exposed brickwork. In addition, after the withdrawal of the Federal Border Police to Hünfeld in 1999, another barracks site was acquired.

Expansion and modernization

Fulda offers a university of short distances. Almost the entire campus extends over a radius of around 500 meters around the centrally located cafeteria and its forecourt. Most of the buildings at the Fulda University of Applied Sciences consist of listed brick buildings that were originally built as barracks for a Prussian cavalry regiment.

At the beginning of 2001, the university acquired the adjoining vacant buildings of the Federal Border Guard , which was stationed in Fulda until the mid-1990s to secure the inner-German border . In view of the annually increasing number of applicants and the introduction of further master’s courses , additional rooms were urgently needed. Some of these buildings have already been completely refurbished and integrated into the campus equipped with the most modern instruments.

One of the renovated buildings of the former Federal Border Guard

In the year of the restructuring in 2006, a completely new building was created for the electrical and information technology and food technology departments . In addition to state-of-the-art computer, laboratory and test rooms, it also offers another lecture hall .

Almost the entire campus, including the classrooms and the cafeteria, is equipped with wireless access points , which offer WLAN with high-speed internet access for every student. For this access, every student can apply for their own secure and password-protected user account.

In 2003, another student residence was built directly adjacent to the campus, and two more new buildings were added in 2007. Around 120 students will find accommodation there and, in addition to the not far away cafeteria, also a restaurant integrated into the dormitory . The Student Service Center , which is student concerns of any kind, be they applications , enrollments , exam registration , certificates of study , abroad care, etc., has also been fully integrated there since of 2005.

The new cafeteria and the university and state library

At the same end of the campus is located, in addition to college belonging, for student parents a kind of daycare which is akadeMINIS calls. Here children up to the age of 3 can be left to supervise until the early evening.

Café Chaos has existed since 1984, making it the oldest project at the Fulda University of Applied Sciences.

In 2013 the new buildings of the university and state library, the cafeteria and the “Student Service Center” were inaugurated.

University and State Library

→ Main article : University and State Library Fulda

The new building of the university and state library

The University and State Library of Fulda was established independently as the Hessian State Library in the city center until 2001, but was then also integrated into the university. The library can still be reached at these two locations today. Although it fulfills its state librarianship purpose in the Fulda city center, at the university it primarily offers its services as support for teaching, study and research in the departments.

Today the library, equipped with a modern computer-aided administration, offers not only (music) manuscripts , incunabula , audio books , deposit copies and the nationwide most extensive Hutten collection, but also e-books in order to meet the increasing demand of the increasing number of students.

The so-called online catalog was introduced to simplify and optimize user-friendliness. This can be called up online by all library card holders at any time and is used to search, query the status, renew and reserve books and other media.

The university's archive is kept as a deposit in the Hessian State Archive in Marburg (holdings 440).

Awards and special features

• Together with the Münster University of Applied Sciences , the University of Mainz and the Technical University of Braunschweig, the university was selected from 68 applying universities as a pilot university for the “ Quality Management at Universities” program. Until 2010, Fulda will receive a subsidy of € 300,000 based on the best concept for the development and expansion of a quality management system. Due to the ongoing preparatory work, which is now to be expanded into an exemplary, strategic quality management system, a large part of the optimization has already been mastered. It is particularly positive that the quality management simplifies business processes, saves resources and increases organizational knowledge.

Basic certificate

• The University of Applied Sciences Fulda successfully applied for the audit of the Hessian universities initiated by the Hessian Ministry of Social Affairs. In June 2006, the Fulda University of Applied Sciences received the family-friendly university certificate. The award of the certificate confirms that the university has faced the auditing process and has developed university-specific goals and measures to implement family-friendly study conditions and a family-conscious personnel policy. After the re-audits in 2009 and 2012, the university carried out the re-audit in 2015 and concluded a new target agreement.

• The Germany-wide Bachelor of Laws gap in the Social Law course has been closed for the first time in Fulda since the 2007/08 winter semester. The HS is the only academic institution in the Federal Republic of Germany that offers training to become a social lawyer.

• As a reaction to the Bologna Process , the educational institution was the first German university to introduce the Master of Science in Electronic Business and had it successfully accredited in November 2001 . In contrast to the bachelor's degree , which is similar to a university of applied sciences diploma, the master’s degree basically corresponds to the university diploma and thus entitles the holder to do a doctorate directly .

• At the beginning of the 2004/2005 winter semester, the social sciences course with a focus on intercultural relationships was accredited, which is briefly referred to as BASIB. The HS Fulda is uniquely represented in Germany with this 6-semester course. The aims of the course include: professional handling of the social integration of immigrants, management of intercultural overlapping situations, development and utilization of intercultural resources , participation in companies and organizations with international teams or intercultural functions, as well as work-related stays abroad and their professional preparation.

• The university was accepted into the European University Association on October 22, 2008 by the Council of the EUA as the first university in Europe without the right to award doctorates and has thus fulfilled the requirements for acceptance into the network of European universities.

• The Fulda University of Applied Sciences was the only university of applied sciences in the state of Hesse to make it to the final round of the “ Excellence in Teaching ” competition organized by the Donors' Association for German Science. At the universities of applied sciences, 11 out of a total of 47 applications were selected for the final round - at the universities it was 13 out of 57 applicants.

• In the “ Cum Laude ” competition of the Donors' Association for German Science, the Early Childhood Inclusive Education course at Fulda University took first place. This means that the best course in Germany is represented at the Fulda University of Applied Sciences in the social affairs department.

Departments

• Applied computer science
• Electrical and Computer Engineering
• Food technology
• Ecotrophology
• Care and health
• Social and cultural studies
• Social affairs
• economy

Contributions

Semester fee

The semester fee, which is to be distinguished from the tuition fees, is 292.20 euros (as of: summer semester 2020). It consists of the student union fee (83.70 euros), the fee for the AStA (10.00 euros), the administrative costs (50.00 euros) and the costs for the semester ticket (148.50 euros).

Semester ticket

For the summer semester 2009 at the University of Fulda into the transport associations RMV and NVV and in almost all of Hesse valid Semesterticket introduced contained after Solidar model for every student in the university semester fee. After there was great demand from students since the winter semester 2007/08, it was finally decided after a general assembly in December 2007 and a ballot in December 2008 to introduce the semester ticket. In this vote, almost 60% of the participating students voted in favor of the ticket. Until then, Fulda was the only university in Hesse without a semester ticket.

Clubs and organizations

VWI Fulda

Logo of the VWI Fulda

The VWI Hochschulgruppe Fulda eV (short: VWI Fulda ) is an association for students and graduates of industrial engineering that was founded in the summer semester 2010 as part of a study project under the direction of Katrin Hesse-Schmitz . The association is an independent, student sub-organization of the Association of German Industrial Engineers

The purpose of the association is not aimed at an economic business operation, but to promote the industrial engineering course and the students of this course at the University of Fulda and the members of the VWI Fulda.

The aim of the association is to focus directly on the requirements and needs of prospective and trained industrial engineers and to promote them through excursions , seminars , alumni networks and other events. In addition, the association has set itself the task of bringing together students and companies in various fields and making the university location better known and more attractive.

Fhoch5

The Association of Friends and Sponsors of the Economics Department of the Fulda University of Applied Sciences eV (short: Fhoch5 , formerly: Association of Friends and Sponsors of the Economics Department of the University of Applied Sciences Fulda eV ) is a sponsoring association to support current and former students of the University of Fulda and the members of Fhoch5 . Lutz Schminke has been the chairman of the board since 2009 and Michael Huth is the managing director.

The aim of the association is to intensify the contact between the alumni , the students, the professors of the business department and the companies in the Fulda region , in particular to serve as contact persons for possible sponsors of the department. In addition, the association strives to intensify teaching and research activities in the business faculty and to support students in their studies , internships and stays abroad .

The heart of the university

Others

• The university is a member of the General German University Sports Association . For trainers, it offers various internal training and further training measures as well as inexpensive participation by athletes in national and international competitions.
• Numerous research and development projects are carried out jointly with companies from East Hesse such as EDAG GmbH & Co. KGaA , Jumo GmbH & Co. KG and other institutions. This practical relevance not only benefits the university's cooperation partners, but also the quality of research and teaching.
• According to statistics from the summer semester 2019, around 13 percent of students come from abroad. From Egypt and China to Cameroon and Canada to Vietnam and the United States , from a total of seventy countries. All departments cooperate with partner universities worldwide.

Web links

Commons : Hochschule Fulda  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Official website
• Website of the AStA of the University of Fulda

Individual evidence

1. ↑ [1] . University of Fulda. Retrieved January 18, 2019.
2. ↑ ^{a b} Figures 2015/2016 . Fulda University. Retrieved July 16, 2020.
3. ↑ Fulda University of Applied Sciences. Retrieved July 16, 2020.
4. ↑ First University of Applied Sciences may award doctorates. In: Spiegel Online . October 10, 2016, accessed October 11, 2016 . 
5. ↑ Doctor also from the technical college. (No longer available online.) In: Deutsche Presse-Agentur . today , October 10, 2016, archived from the original on October 11, 2016 ; accessed on October 11, 2016 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
6. ↑ ^{a b} spiegel.de Bye, campus toll
7. ↑ Volker Nies: From today FH Fulda is called university. From June 1st "Hochschule Fulda - University of Applied Sciences". (No longer available online.) In: Fuldaer Zeitung . June 1, 2006, formerly in the original ; Retrieved August 5, 2011 .  ( Page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.    
8. ^ Meaning of the logo of the University of Fulda . University of Fulda. Retrieved March 10, 2017.
9. ↑ Café Chaos. Retrieved July 22, 2017 . 
10. ↑ New university library and cafeteria inaugurated . In: www.fuldaerzeitung.de . ( fuldaerzeitung.de [accessed on March 15, 2017]).
11. ↑ Overview of the inventory of (Fach-) Hochschule Fulda  (HStAM inventory 440). In: Archive Information System Hessen (Arcinsys Hessen), accessed on September 9, 2011.
12. ↑ stifterverband.de:  ( Page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Stifterverband honors four universities for their outstanding quality management concepts  
13. ↑ idw-online.de: Quality management at the universities - Fulda University plays in the top league.
14. ^ Berufundfamilie.de : The Fulda University of Applied Sciences has received the certificate for the “Family-Friendly University Audit”.
15. ↑ family .
16. ↑ innovations-report.de: HS Fulda pioneer in new computer science course.
17. ^ Idw-online.de: Fulda University as the first German university of applied sciences included in the European University Association.
18. ↑ idw-online.de: Stifterverband: Finalists in the “Excellent Teaching” competition have been selected.
19. ↑ Donors' Association . Archived from the original on April 12, 2013. Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
20. ↑ Re- registration / semester fees. November 14, 2019, accessed November 14, 2019 . 
21. ↑ https://asta.hs-fulda.org The students have decided on a semester ticket.
22. ↑ Statistics. Retrieved November 20, 2019 . 

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