The number of candidates for the office of the President of the Goethe-University has been reduced from four to two. As the University announced on Wednesday evening, has proposed to the Board of Trustees of the extended Senate, the current President, Birgitta Wolff, and former University Vice President Enrico Schleiff for the election. Not the psychology Professor Holger Horz, and the history Professor Jan Palmowski, which competed were nominated. The choice is for the 8. July provided.
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The economist Wolff directs the state of Hesse’s largest University of applied Sciences for 2015; their term of office ends on December 31. December. Schleiff is a Professor of Molecular cell biology, Goethe University, and was a member of the University Board from 2012 to 2018.
According to the election rules of the Frankfurt University, a search Committee made up of members of the Senate and the University Council reviews applications for the post of President. You will then decide which candidates will be invited to a high school public hearing. After the hearing, the University Council created an election proposal that will contain multiple names.
According to F. A. Z.-the information the Senate following the hearing on Wednesday by a large majority in favour of at least three candidates to admit. The decision of the University Council, to put only two candidates on the proposal list, call forth, therefore, in the University of some resentment – particularly in the case of critics of the President Wolff. Also, the student Council showed itself to be upset.
While the historians, Palmowski, who teaches at the University of Warwick, probably only an Outside chance would have had would have been Holger Horz is a serious Challenger: the Director of The University’s own Academy for educational research and teacher education is a prolific researcher, a member of the Senate and within the University is well connected. Horz informed on request that he would speak only “on the basis of technical and legal advice” on the matter. Also, the Chairman of the University Council, Matthias Kleiner, declined to comment initially.
It is not the first Time that rulings have to worry about candidates for President at the Goethe-University for criticism. 2014 the search Committee had not approved the law Professor Cornelius Prittwitz to the election, among other things, on the grounds that he had previously been, even in the Commission. In 2008, the medical Professor Werner Müller-Esterl, the only candidate, the extended Senate was able to vote was. Two other candidates had been proposed after the hearing by the Board of Trustees for election.
