University Rectors' Conference

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The University Rectors 'Conference (HRK) - until 1990: West German Rectors' Conference (WRK) - is a voluntary association of German universities and represents them to politics and the public. It currently has 268 member universities, at which around 94 percent of all students in Germany are enrolled. The HRK deals with all subject areas that affect the role and tasks of universities in science and society, above all with teaching and study, research, innovation and transfer, academic further education, internationalization and questions of university self-administration and governance.

The HRK is a member of the Alliance of German Science Organizations .

organization

The University Rectors' Conference is chaired by an eight-member presidium and represented externally. The literary scholar Peter-André Alt has been President of the HRK since 2018 . Resolutions in principle and recommendations are made by the general assembly (formerly: plenary), which meets twice a year, and by the Senate .

The HRK has an office in Bonn with branch offices in Berlin and Brussels . The HRK's financial and legal entity is the Foundation for the Promotion of the University Rectors' Conference. Your library has one of the largest university and science policy special collections in the Federal Republic of Germany with over 70,000 monographs, 800 regularly updated journals and the course catalogs of all German universities since 1945.

The HRK operates a number of projects under its umbrella, including the project "nexus - design transitions, improve academic success", together with the Stifterverband for German science awards the ars legendi prize for excellent university teachers and offers universities an audit of their internationalization strategies. Together with the Bertelsmann Foundation , she founded the non-profit Center for University Development (CHE) in 1994 as a think tank and consulting company for the reform of the German higher education system.

Positions

The University Rectors' Conference supports u. a. a stronger participation of the universities in the selection of students, the introduction of tuition fees and the excellence initiative of the federal government.

Publications

The University Rectors' Conference has published the series “Contributions to University Policy” since 1996, in which 152 volumes have been published so far (as of 2018).

history

The HRK was founded on April 21, 1949 as the West German Rectors' Conference (WRK). At first it only comprised universities and - then so called - scientific colleges of the former Federal Republic and West Berlin. In 1951 she elected a president for the first time; In 1954 Jürgen Fischer was hired as the first full-time secretary. Pedagogical universities were also included from 1970, and from 1974 technical colleges as well as art and music colleges , church and philosophy-theological universities and the universities of the Bundeswehr .

After German reunification and the accession of universities from the new federal states, it was renamed the University Rectors' Conference (HRK) in November 1990 .

President of the WRK / HRK since 1951

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ http://www.hrk.de/hrk/lösungen-und-struktur
  2. ↑ http://www.hrk.de/hrk/geschaeftsstelle
  3. ↑ http://www.hrk.de/hrk/lösungen-und-struktur/stiftung
  4. ↑ http://www.hrk.de/hrk/bibliothek/
  5. ↑ see holdings in the German National Library at http://d-nb.info/018874428
  6. ↑ Anja Hauck: The Voice of the Universities. The University Rectors' Conference celebrates its 70th anniversary. In: Physik Journal , vol. 18 (2009), June issue, p. 7.
  7. ↑ Chronicle of the University Rectors ' Conference , accessed on October 3, 2019.