German Rectors' Conference

The German Rectors' Conference (HRK) is the voluntary association of German universities and represents them to politicians and the public. It currently has 268 member universities, where approximately 94 percent of all students are enrolled in Germany.

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

Organization

The German Rectors' Conference is led by an eight-member Board and represented externally. President of the HRK is since 2012 Horst Hippler. Basic decisions and recommendations be adopted by the General Assembly, which meets twice a year and by the Senate.

The HRK maintains a secretariat in Bonn with branch offices in Berlin, Brussels and an office in Tokyo. Financial and legal support of the HRK is the foundation for the promotion of the German Rectors' Conference. Your library has one of the largest higher education and science policy Special Collections of the Federal Republic of Germany with over 69,000 monographs, 800 current periodicals and course catalogs all German universities since 1945.

The HRK operates under its umbrella a number of projects, including the project "nexus - concepts and good practice for teaching and learning ", gives together with the Donors' Association for German Science the ars Legendi price for excellent university teaching and provides universities an audit their Internationalierungsstrategien. Together with the Bertelsmann Foundation has established in 1994 the nonprofit Center for Higher Education Development ( CHE) as a think tank and consulting firm for the reform of the German university system.

Positions

The German Rectors' Conference endorsed, inter alia, greater involvement of universities in the selection of students, the introduction of tuition fees and the Excellence Initiative of the Federal Government.

Publications

Since 1996, the German Rectors' Conference are the series "Contributions to the university policy " out in the far ( as of 2012) nearly 140 volumes have been published.

History

The HRK was founded on 21 April 1949 as the West German Rectors' Conference ( TRC ) and initially covered only universities and - at that time so designated - Scientific universities of the former Federal Republic and West Berlin. Since 1974 also technical colleges as well as art and music schools, Church and Philosophical- theological colleges and the universities of the Bundeswehr were taken. After German reunification, and the accession of universities in the new federal states in November 1990, the name change to German Rectors' Conference (HRK).

President of TRC / HRK since 1951

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