Reform University
A reform university is a university that tries to link various scientific disciplines, for example the humanities and the social sciences . Most of the start-ups fall in the 1960s and 1970s. A campus is often the visual expression of networking .
history
As early as the late 17th and 18th centuries, newly founded universities (e.g. in Halle and Göttingen ) described themselves as reform universities in order to set themselves apart from traditional teaching models.
Today's examples
- The University of Bielefeld was developed by the sociologist Helmut Schelsky founded as a reform university to enable interdisciplinary work: In architecture, the close relationship of the individual departments is thus expressed that a central hall connects all the faculties and spatially together.
- The University of Konstanz was founded in 1966 as a reform university: the establishment of institutes was dispensed with; departments were replaced by departments to develop teaching from research. Instead of faculties, there are three sections. In order to be able to overcome the subject boundaries better, the concept of the campus university was adopted from the Anglo-Saxon area , service facilities such as the cafeteria and library were centralized. The reform projects also included the relocation of large parts of the teaching from lectures to accompanying seminars or exercise groups and, as a result, the concept of study-related examinations.
- The University of Erfurt is a reform university in the humanities with a cultural and social science profile.
- The Technical University of Dortmund also describes itself as a reform university, which was founded in the course of the educational reform at the end of the 1960s.
- The Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin is now also using the term reform university, referring to its founding father Wilhelm von Humboldt , who tried to impart humanistic education to students through the unity of teaching and research.
Web links
- Marc Reichwein: These concrete universities were Germany's breakout booths , in: Die Welt on August 7, 2016
literature
- Moritz Mälzer: Looking for the new university. The establishment of the »reform universities« Konstanz and Bielefeld in the 1960s . Göttingen 2016. ISBN 9783525368527 .
Individual evidence
- ↑ 50 years - 50 founding years? Retrieved August 30, 2019 . , on uni-konstanz.de
- ↑ For good reason: University of Erfurt , on uni-erfurt.de, accessed on August 30, 2019