Lüneburg University

The University of Lüneburg is a foundation university in Lower Saxony, Lüneburg. It was founded in 1946 as a teacher training college Lüneburg.

  • 5.1 Major as major subjects
  • 5.2 Minor as minor subjects
  • 5.3 Complementary studies
  • 5.4 scholarships

History

Founded in May 1946 as one of eight colleges of education in Lower Saxony, was the College of Education Lüneburg 1978 - after a transitional phase as a department Lüneburg the University of Education Lower Saxony (PHN ) with courses for graduate educators and doctoral degrees - into an independent institution of higher education with habilitation degrees converted. In May 1989, the college was renamed the University of Lüneburg.

After the strong increase of the number of students in the 1980s began in the early 1990s with the move to the present campus on the site of the former Scharnhorst barracks. Since the winter semester 1997/1998 the then nationally unique conversion is completed: The University has today in Lüneburg three locations: the main campus at Scharnhorststraße is determined by the brick architecture of the barracks from the late 1930s, unfold their formative unity in around 20 major buildings, modern auditorium and library buildings and various landscaped garden areas such as a biotope. In the heart of the cities Red box is a brick building from the imperial period, which was used at the beginning of the last century for educational purposes. A modern architecture identifies the location Volgershall: Over a length of 200 meters, there extends a hall that is used among others for experimental setups of automation technology. In all, several hundred students on campus apartments are available.

On 1 January 2003 the university was transformed into a foundation under public law. According to the decision of the Lower Saxony state government in 2004, it merged on 1 January 2005 with the University of Applied Sciences Nordostniedersachsen. The new institution serves as a model university for the implementation of the Bologna process.

Since the beginning of the realignment in 2006, the university budget was increased by more than 5 million euros, at the same time increased the number of applicants per study place and the number of doctoral students. Due to the higher care requirements under the Bachelor / Master switch and the increased quality demands of the University the number of study places, however, was significantly reduced from about 10,000 in 2005 to about 6,700 in 2010.

In Leuphana College, a bachelor's degree program is offered in eight subjects and two teacher training courses. The Graduate School integrated master's and doctoral programs. In addition, there are cross-disciplinary research centers and a professional school for further education courses such as business co-operation.

Foundation University

2006, the University of Lueneburg Lower Saxony to the first foundation university was. She is now a public foundation. Officially, this foundation support of the university. The Board of Trustees decides on policy matters and the financing of the university. With the initiative of Foundation University, the then CDU - FDP Government of the University had granted more autonomy and responsibility.

In connection with the construction of the auditorium Lüneburg the Education Minister Gabriele Heinen- Kljajic rebuked the Board of Trustees that he had not fulfilled its duty of supervision in the increasingly expensive project enough. The former Lüneburg Professor Matthias von Saldern was for years a member of the Foundation Board. In 2014 he left the university and wrote in an e -mail to colleagues: " From my personal point of view, the Panel has disempowered by being too close to the Bureau itself, which is also a co - cause of the problems facing the university is today."

Members of the Council are (2014):

  • Volker Meyer- Guckel, Deputy Secretary General of the Donors ' Association for German Science (Chairman)
  • Adelheid Ehmke, President of the European Platform of Women Scientists, former Vice-Rector of the University of Luxembourg
  • Gabriele Oettingen, a professor of psychology at the University of Hamburg and New York University
  • Gesine Schwan, President of the Humboldt - Viadrina School of Governance, Berlin
  • Birgit width Meyer, Professor of Tax Law and Director of the Institute for Foundation Law and the Law of Non -profit organizations at the Bucerius Law School in Hamburg
  • Representatives of the Senate 's Alexander sound, M.Jur (Oxford)
  • Representatives of the Ministry of Science and Culture is Stefan Jungeblodt, High School Department for Higher Education Law, Natural and Engineering Sciences

Name

The name Leuphana derives from an ancient settlement on the Elbe ago, is mentioned in the World Atlas by the geographer Ptolemy in the 2nd century. It is debatable whether the drawn site conforms to the current Lüneburg. Recent research results indicate that the historical settlement of the present Hitzacker - about 45 km east of Lüneburg - corresponds. As the name of the university, he was only in 2006, after the proposal Scholz and Friends, selected by the bodies of the university.

Faculties and research priorities

Faculty of Education

  • Department of Education ( IBIWI )
  • Institute for German Language and Literature and its didactics (IDD )
  • Institute of English Studies (IES )
  • Institute for Integrative Studies ( INFIS )
  • Department of Art, Music and its mediation ( IKMV )
  • Institute of Mathematics and its Didactics (IMD )
  • Department of Psychology (IFP )
  • Institute for Education and Research on Higher Education ( ISHF )
  • Department of Social Work and Social Education ( IFSP )
  • Institute for Theology and Religious Education (ITR )
  • Work unit sports science
  • Work unit Business Education

Faculty of Culture Studies

  • Institute of History and Literary Cultures ( IGL )
  • Institute for Communication Science and Media Culture ( IFKM )
  • Institute for Culture and Aesthetics of Digital Media (ICAM )
  • Institute of Philosophy and Art Research (IPK )
  • Department of Political Science (IPW )
  • Department of Sociology and Cultural Organization ( ISKO )
  • Institute of Urban and Cultural Studies ( IFSK )

Faculty sustainability

  • Institute for Ethics and transdisciplinary sustainability research ( IETSR )
  • Institute for Sustainability Management ( INSUGO )
  • Institute for Sustainable Resource Management and Infrastructure Development ( ISRI )
  • Institute of Ecology (IE)
  • Institute for Environmental Chemistry (IEC)
  • Institute for Environmental Communication ( INFU )
  • Centre for Sustainability Management (CSM )

Faculty of Economics

  • Competition & Regulation Institute ( CRI)
  • Research Institute Liberal Professions ( FFB)
  • Institute of Analytical Management ( IAU)
  • Institute of Banking, Finance and Accounting ( IBFR )
  • Institute of Electronic Business Processes (IEG )
  • Institute of Experimental Economics Psychology - LüneLab
  • Institute of Marketing (IFM )
  • Institute for SME Research ( IMF)
  • Institute for Performance Management ( IPM)
  • Institute for Product and Process Innovation ( PPI)
  • Institute for Strategic Human Resource Management ( ISPM )
  • Institute for Business Development ( ICD)
  • Institute for Distributed Autonomous Systems and Technologies ( VAUST )
  • Institute of Economics ( IVWL )
  • Institute for Knowledge and Information Management ( IWI )
  • Leuphana Law School (LLS )

Interdisciplinary facilities

  • Art Space of the University of Lüneburg (KUL )
  • Method Centre
  • Centre for Applied Health Sciences ( ZAG)
  • Center for the Study of Democracy ( ZDEMO )

Studies at Leuphana College

As the central entry-level study of college offers study opportunities with the completion Leuphana Bachelor. Building on results in the Graduate School for the Master's or Doctoral degree. The Professional School makes different partial part-time study programs.

The College organized a Bachelor's degree in ten thematic priorities, which can be selected as a major. Depending on your personal interests and individual career planning Minor can be added to as a second compartments. In the teacher training courses two major are selected according to legal requirements.

In the study model of the University of Lüneburg a common first semester was the winter semester 2007/2008 introduced ( Leuphana semester). Regardless of the major choice it offers multidisciplinary events, basic knowledge and the training of personal skills. Courses are, inter alia, from the fields of history, philosophy, mathematics, statistics, research methods and responsibility in society. From the second semester occurs the complementary studies in addition to the course of study. In it, among other things, social skills, language skills, artistic skills or philosophical aspects can be deepened. Complementary studies should provide cross-disciplinary thinking and teach skills that go beyond the purely factual knowledge. The study model of Leuphana College has won several awards.

Major as major subjects

  • Business Administration ( B. A. )
  • Engineering ( B.Eng.)
  • Cultural Studies ( B. A. )
  • Political Science ( B. A. )
  • Environmental Science ( B.Sc.)
  • Economics ( B.Sc.)
  • Economic computer science ( B.Sc.)
  • Business Psychology ( B.Sc.)
  • Law ( Corporate and Business Law) ( LL.B. )
  • Environmental and Sustainability Studies (B. Sc.)
  • Individual Studies ( B.Sc / BA -. Depending on focus )

Study Guide Teacher Training:

  • Teacher training for primary and secondary schools and teacher training for secondary schools (BA )
  • Social Education Teacher Education Vocational schools (BA )
  • Business Education Teacher Training Vocational Schools (BA )

Every single major may be combined with a minor, the so-called Minor. An application is made to the Major, Minor is freely selectable in the control.

Minor as minor subjects

Students can choose to intensify, supplement or contrasting their major subject is another compartment individually. Offered are the following subjects:

  • Automation Technology
  • Business Administration
  • Education
  • Digital Media - Culture computer science (DMK)
  • E-Business
  • Industrial Technology
  • Computer science: Global Information Systems
  • Sustainability Human Sciences
  • Sustainability science
  • Philosophy
  • Political science
  • Production Technology
  • Space Sciences
  • Economics
  • Business Psychology
  • Law ( Corporate and Business Law)
  • Economics

Complementary studies

To extend the academic perspective, select Leuphana Students enrolled in the complementary studies courses that introduce them to them strange, unknown fields of knowledge. Foreign languages ​​can also be learned in the context of complementary studies.

Scholarships

The study counseling at Leuphana assists students in finding a suitable scholarship. In addition, the Leuphana provides college students at two private scholarships, the Otto Group Scholarship and the NordLB scholarship for which you can apply in the first semester. Social commitment and service learning can be promoted with the help of Jimmy and Rosalynn Carter - Foundation.

For doctoral Leuphana offers several in-house scholarships.

Studies at the Graduate School

Leuphana Graduate School was opened in the autumn of 2008 and offers new graduate programs, which also seeks to give interdisciplinary cooperation and practical relevant experience in addition to the acquisition of scientific skills. At the Graduate School, the following Master programs can be studied:

Master Program Arts & Sciences

  • Cultural Studies - Culture, Arts and Media (MA)
  • Sustainability Science - Sustainability Science ( M.Sc.)
  • Political Science - Public Economics, Law and Politics ( PELP ) ( MA)

Master Program Management & Entrepreneurship

  • Management & Business Development ( M. A. )
  • Management & Engineering ( M.Sc.)
  • Management & Financial Institutions ( M. A. )
  • Management & Human Resources ( M. A. )
  • Management & Controlling / Information Systems (MA)
  • Management & Marketing ( M. A. )

Master Program Education

  • Education Science - Educational Sciences ( MA)
  • Teaching at vocational schools - Social ( M.Ed. )
  • Teaching at vocational schools - Economics ( M.Ed. )
  • Teaching at primary and secondary schools ( M.Ed. )
  • Teaching at secondary schools ( M.Ed. )

In addition, the Graduate School offers a three-year semi-structured doctoral program, which is based on the priority themes of the masters program and can already be started during the Master's program ( " Fast Track "). The following doctoral degrees can be acquired:

Dr. phil. ( Humanities and Cultural Studies) Dr. rer. pol. ( Economic and Social Sciences ) Dr. rer. nat. ( Science and Technology ), Dr. iur. ( Environmental Law / Law )

Studied at the Professional School

Lifelong learning, continuing education and part-time degree programs constitute a separate area at the Leuphana. Offered are also specially developed Master programs for the needs of individual companies at the Professional School. The hitherto constantly expanding Study Guide contains the following programs:

  • Auditing ( m.a ): Audit
  • Construction Law and Construction Management ( m.a )
  • Competition and Regulation (LL.M. )
  • Corporate & Business Law (LL.M. )
  • Manufacturing Management / Industrial Management (MBA )
  • Performance Management ( MBA): Business Psychology
  • Prevention and Health Promotion (MPH )
  • Sustainability Management (MBA, distance learning ): Sustainability Management
  • Social Management ( MSM)
  • Industrial Engineering and Science ( M.Sc.)
  • Music in childhood ( B. A. )
  • Social work educators (BA )
  • Coaching ( Certificate Program )
  • Gender diversity ( certificate program )
  • Innovation Management ( Certificate Program )
  • Sustainability and Journalism ( Certificate Program )

Honorary Doctors

Since 2007, this Academicus (Latin for academic day) will be awarded honorary doctorates at the annual. The previous honorees are:

  • Ivan Nagel, writer, critic and essayist
  • Axel Honneth, Habermas student and his successor as managing director of the Institute for Social Research at the University of Frankfurt.
  • Joachim Möller, labor market expert and director of the Institute for Labour Market and Employment Research of the Federal Employment Agency.
  • Margit Osterloh, organization scientist at the University of Zurich
  • Andrei Markovits, a social scientist at the University of Michigan
  • Hermann Scheer († 2010), politician, winner of the Alternative Nobel Prize and " Hero of the Green Century" (TIME Magazine )
  • Dieter Imboden, Professor of Environmental Physics at the ETH Zurich Research Council and President of the Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF )
  • Karlheinz Brandenburg, Professor of Electronic Media Technology at Ilmenau Technical University and inventor of the MP3 format
  • Olaf Fisscher, a professor of business ethics at the University of Twente
  • Claude Boutron, Professor at the Joseph Fourier University of Grenoble
  • Ronald Inglehart, professor of political science at the University of Michigan and founder of the World Values ​​Surveys
  • William C. Clark, Professor of Sustainability Science at the John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University
  • Nilüfer Göler, professor, head of the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociale in Paris
  • Jürgen Basedow, professor (Harvard University ), Director of the Hamburg Max Planck Institute for Private Law
  • Baudenbacher, Professor, Director of the Institute for European and International Business Law, University of St. Gallen, President of the Court of Justice of the European Free Trade Association ( EFTA)
  • Karsten Schmidt, Professor, is one of the leading researchers in the areas of Civil Law, Commercial Law, the corporate, insolvency, competition and antitrust law

Known students and professors

  • Wilfried Adami († 2012), a professor of materials management and system planning, Major - Charge of Engineering ( Industrial )
  • Alexander Barth, Professor of Corporate Taxation, Tax Law
  • Ursula Cillien, Professor of Education
  • Ulrich Döring, Professor of Business Administration, Accounting and Taxation
  • Michael Ehrke (1944-2012), Honorary Professor in the field of vocational training
  • Michael Frese, professor of psychology
  • Frieder Gadesmann, Student ( educationist and professor of Protestant theology and religious education )
  • Hermann Gackenholz, professor of history and the last rector of the PH Lüneburg
  • Britt Hagedorn, television presenter
  • Götz Harbsmeier (1910-1979), Professor of Protestant Theology and abbot of the monastery Bursfelde
  • Harald Heinrichs, Professor of Sustainability Policy
  • Egbert Kahle, Professor of Business Administration
  • Alexandra - Maria Klein, professor of ecosystem services
  • Daniel Libeskind, Honorary Professor (architect)
  • Rudolf Lochner, Professor of Education
  • Ingeborg Zoologists, Professor of Education
  • Pierangelo Maset, professor of art and its Didactics
  • Joachim Merz, Professor of Statistics and Professionals
  • Ferdinand Müller -Rommel, Professor of Comparative Politics
  • Nils Ole Oermann, professor of sustainability ethics
  • Alfred Pohl, Student ( artist - wood cutter)
  • Richard David Precht, Honorary Professor ( writer and philosopher)
  • Markus Reihlen, Professor of Strategic Management (as well as Associate Fellow of the Said Business School, University of Oxford)
  • Sabine Remdisch, Professor of Economic Psychology
  • Helmut de Rudder, Professor of Sociology and Dean of the Department of PHN
  • Wolfgang Ruck, Professor of Environmental Chemistry
  • Thomas Saretzki, professor of environmental policy
  • Thomas Schomerus, Professor of Public Law, especially energy and environmental law
  • Reinhard Schulte, Professor of entrepreneurship
  • Hermann Schweppenhäuser, Professor of Philosophy
  • Martin Stallman v. 1946-1961 Professor of Protestant Theology and Religious Education and Rector
  • Jörg Philipp Terhechte, Professor of Public Law, European and International Law, as well as regulatory and antitrust
  • Matthias von Saldern, Professor of School Education
  • Klaus Wegenast, Professor of Protestant Theology and Religious Education
  • Tine Wittler, author and television presenter
  • Paul Janke, German television actor, footballer and model, studied Business Administration majoring in Marketing

Spin-offs

Various institutions such as the start-up service and the founding Chair of Management ( GMLG ) offer Leuphana University in addition to a wide range of courses and a variety of qualification, consulting and support on business creation. Particular emphasis is placed on the connection of academic qualification with practical assistance.

Central building with auditorium

What has emerged from the university campus future central building with the new auditorium was designed by Daniel Libeskind and is, according to university management is one of the core pieces of the future campus development. After the initial planning, the project was planned in a total volume of 57.7 million euros. The building will be the distinctive mark of the University in the typical style of Daniel Libeskind with a height of 38 meters and can accommodate 1,200 people. The completion of the building part lecture hall was planned for January 2013, according to new plans, the total completion is now planned for summer 2015. Since the initial planning by the university administration to President Sascha Spoun and Vice President Holm Keller the project in its necessity, dimension, financing and use is controversial. According to the results of investigations of fraud office OLAF EU was open in 2013, whether granted EU funding of 14 million euros are withdrawn.

Rainer- Adank Foundation

In 2000, the nonprofit Rainer- Adank Foundation was established, funded at Leuphana University science and research projects. The Foundation also seeks to promote the implementation of research findings " into marketable innovations ." It is funded primarily by the University's close to innovation and start- center " e.novum " in Lüneburg.

Campus Development

In collaboration with Daniel Libeskind be built on the main campus of the University a central building with new lecture hall. On 19 December 2007 the university management and the Lower Saxony Minister of Science, presented the project and gave the starting signal for the further planning work. The planning process in addition to the main auditorium space for a research student jobs and seminar rooms and a cafeteria.

The project is controversial because, among other things, the construction costs (currently about 60 million euros ) to be partially applied by a public-private partnership and the appropriateness of the building is called into question. According to the student union of the University there is a funding gap of several million euros. So far, funds should be from an EU regional development fund (approx. € 14 million), the state of Lower Saxony ( approximately € 21 million ), the city and district of Lüneburg ( € 7 million ) and composed of other smaller items. The university administration, which has presented no current financing plan, is planning to begin construction in 2010, in 2014 the new main building then be completed. On 8 May 2011, the foundation stone for the building was laid.

As part of the opening weekend 2010, a new exterior design for the main campus was determined. From six landscape architects designs were submitted.

Public Private Partnership

The university administration continued to create in their higher education development in close cooperation with the private sector to further study opportunities.

Mid- August 2013 it was announced that the University a complete reorganization of their " event management " plans. Affected is the one the new central building, on the other hand, part of the Uni- estate Vamos Cultural Hall ( tenant is the outsourced organization " Campus eV " or the "Campus Management GmbH "). A corresponding European tender was prepared in mid-August 2013. This ties to the university plans of private - public partnership solutions for the central building and other properties, which had been in 2010 after public criticism discarded.

The University and the Hamburg Media School started their cooperation in the winter semester of 2013. In cooperation between the two institutions in the Bachelor study program " Digital Media " is offered. This partnership is funded by the Axel Springer AG intense than Ausbildungseinrichting of publishing offspring. Alexander Schmid- Lossberg, then head of the management area staff of the Axel Springer AG said: "Axel Springer wants the world's leading digital media companies. Excellent trained staff are crucial to move forward successfully in this way. The university -wide, interdisciplinary and international orientation of the new course, Digital Media ' is promising and will complement our own training programs such as the multimedia training of Axel Springer Academy. "

Higher Education Development and Higher Education Policy

The high school redesign since 2004 has led to debates within and outside the university on the future technical and organizational orientation of the university. The discussions led to several redesigns of the study regulations and adjustments to the new " Leuphana system ".

Disputed Election of the Vice President Holm Keller

In the Senate election in 2011, there was a scandal, because the Vice President of the University, Holm Keller, was re-elected until the third ballot. University president Sascha Spoun made ​​the re-election Keller, a former McKinsey consultant, a condition for his whereabouts at the university. University Intern threw critics before basement to have mixed up his work as Vice President with vested interests, which refers to its relationship with the architect of the University 's new premises Daniel Libeskind.

In a controversial procedure, several non-public ballots were performed. Finally, the Senate members agreed that Holm Keller to be Vice President in part time. Keller is thus responsible for the acquisition of funds and projects, while another vice president takes over the daily management. In support of the Professor of Sustainability Communications and a member of the Senate Gerd Michelsen said: "We wanted to keep Spoun necessarily because we did not want to jeopardize the positive development of this, we were willing to accept the compromise proposed by the President. ".

The "compromise" led in 2012 to the re-election of the controversial chancellor Holm Keller. This had repeatedly taken care of negative headlines, especially with his commitment to the Libeskind Building. Thus, the Financial Times reported in its edition Germany on 9 November 2011 on the close relationship of the Registrar of Companies, the orders had been given for the project: " The Court's audit team keep the sponsorship agreements for ' unbalanced '. So the company only put forth the zinc plates, the commodity must pay the university itself. [ ... ] 'It's especially aggravating ' get added, ' that the Treaty of competition was undermined '. Other suppliers that offer discounts could bring were off. The economic advantage for the university was questionable. In addition, the auditors criticize the ' narrow private economic link ' between Keller's company proportion GmbH and Rheinzink. Perhaps the sponsorship was a violation of the anti - corruption policy for public institutions. "

Undemocratic and non-transparent administrative structures

The organization Transparency International reported in the September issue of its house publication " headlights ", issue 56/2012, the undergraduate university administration had been stripped of power associated with the business-oriented transformation by a parallel administration at Chairman level. Furthermore, the charge of the occupation of new professorships appointment committees were externally decorated and occupied solely by the bureau, so that also in this case the democratic legitimacy had been lost. In addition, there had been at the university such irregularities in dealing with EU funds that the EU - corruption authority had turned on. The outcome of the case is still open.

Campus Life

In addition to the university facilities can be found on the brick campus on the Lüneburg Scharnhorststraße two dormitories of the Association Campus eV, which was established as part of the move the University from the Wilschenbrucher way to the present location of students. There is also a hall of residence of the student as well as a daycare center of the student union. A GmbH eV was founded by the Association Campus, which runs a café and Vamos - Cultural Hall on the university campus. There is also a bicycle self-help workshop of the student union on campus. The local radio station ZuSa has a studio on the premises of the university. There is a gym with a football field and lawn. Leuphana students organize for years among other things, the Lunatic Festival, a music festival.

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