The Sen­ate is re­spons­ible for the fol­low­ing mat­ters:

  1. participation by its members in the University Electoral Commitee in the election and deselection of the members of the Executive Board;
  2. commenting on the annual report of the Executive Board;
  3. enactment and amendment to the university constitution,as well as other university regulations unless otherwise stipulated by the Higher Education Act;
  4. approval of planning principles within the meaning of section 16(1a) sentence 1 Higher Education Act;
  5. recommendations and statements on the draft of the Higher Education Development Plan and agreement on objectives, on evaluation reports, on financial plans, and on basic resource allocation within the University, faculties, central scientific institutions and central operating units;
  6. recommendations and opinions regarding matters of research, art, teaching and studies that affect the entire University, central institutions or are of fundamental importance;
  7. approval for appointment proposals to fill professorships within the meaning of section 38 (3) of the Higher Education Act.

Mem­bers

Group photo 21st Senate of Paderborn University
  • President Prof. Dr. Matthias Bauer
  • Prof. Dr. Christina Bartz
  • Prof. Dr. Igor Burban
  • Prof. Dr. Sybille Hellebrand
  • Prof. Dr. Christoph Jacke
  • Prof. Dr. H.-Hugo Kremer
  • Prof. Dr. Christian Plessl
  • Prof. Dr. Claus Reinsberger
  • Prof. Dr. Dominik Rumlich
  • Prof. Dr. Claudia Tenberge
  • Prof. Dr. Merle Tönnies (Speaker of the Senate, e-mail)
  • Prof. Dr. Ansgar Trächtler
  • Prof. Dr. André Uhde
  • Dr. Benjamin Brecht (Deputy Speaker of the Senate, e-mail)
  • Sascha Burmeister
  • Tobias Cord-Landwehr
  • Dr.-Ing. Kay-Peter Hoyer
  • Dr. Daniela Zumpf
  • Thomas Arens
  • Dr Johanna Braukmann
  • Karsten Mette
  • Isabell von Bremen
  • Adrian Samir Block
  • Svetlana Hardeweg
  • André Simon Merschmann
  • Torben Rehmer
  • Julian Rische
  • Tim Storm
  • the Vice-Presidents
  • the Deans
  • the Equal Opportunities Officer
  • the Chairman of the Student Union
  • the Chairmen of the Worker’s Council
  • the Severely Disabled Employee Officer
  • the Representative for Students with Handicap or Chronic Disease
  • the Chairperson of the Representation of the interests of Student Assistants

The student representatives are elected for a term of one year and the other members for a term of two years.

Sched­ule/Doc­u­ments

Sched­ule

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Verwaltung

In­form­a­tion from the Sen­ate Ses­sions

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Rules, reg­u­la­tions and oth­er doc­u­ments

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Commissions and other bodies

Commissions

Commission for Teaching, Studies and Quality Management (SK) Commission for Research and Junior Academics (FK) Commission for Planning and Finance (KPF) Ethics Committee Standing Committee for the Safeguarding of Good Research Practice Tenure Board Equal Opportunities Commission Centre Council of the PLAZ – Professional School of Education (Teacher Education) Commission for Quality Improvement in Studies and Teaching Library Commission Commission for ZIM matters (Information & Media) ZSB Commission (Student Counselling) Ordnungsausschuss

Other Governing Bodies

Advisory Board Executive Board

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Office

Cordula Stratmann

Gremienbetreuung und akademische Angelegenheiten (SG 2.4)
Room B3.246
Paderborn University
Warburger Str. 100
33098 Paderborn

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