Notes from the university
Notes from the university
- Chancellor Gerhard Schröder’s rejection of the engineering programme sparked disappointment and outrage. This provisional decision jeopardises the development of the entire university, which has invested heavily in planning the degree programme over the past five years, explained President Prof. Dr Michael Daxner. The university will stick to its plans and make the establishment of the department a litmus test for the state government’s credibility.
- Horst Milde, President of the State Parliament and Member of the State Parliament for Oldenburg, has been named the university’s third honorary citizen, following Rosalinde von Ossietzky-Palm and Erwin Fritsche. In its statement, the University Senate noted that Milde had made an extraordinary contribution to the region and had shown particular commitment to the ICBM and the OFFIS Institute of Computer Science.
- The lecture centre on Uhlhornsweg is due to be ready for lectures as early as spring 1998. Following the official award of the contract by the university, work began in early May on the construction project, which is costing 20.2 million marks. The lecture centre not only eases the pressure on teaching operations but, as a conference centre, also enhances Oldenburg’s appeal, emphasised President Daxner at the signing of the contracts.
- The university has a new affiliated Institute: The Hearing Centre, a limited liability company (GmbH), was founded on the initiative of the head of the Medical Physics Working Group, Prof. Dr Dr Birger Kollmeier, and the chief medical officer at the Evangelical Hospital, Dr Rüdiger Schönfeldt-Hohmann, and, following a Senate decision, has been assigned to Department 8: Physics. The institute intends to focus primarily on applied hearing aid research, patient care in special cases, and initial, further and continuing further education.
- With the publication of a volume of marginalia, Rowohlt Publishers has announced the forthcoming Oldenburg Complete Works of Kurt Tucholsky, thereby underlining the significance of this major literary project. The first two of a total of 15 volumes of texts and six volumes of letters are due to be published in the autumn at the Frankfurt Book Fair. The publication of Tucholsky’s life’s work is scheduled to be completed in 2003 with the publication of the index volume. The project, funded by the DFG, is being carried out by the Tucholsky Research Centre under the direction of literary scholar Prof. Dr Dirk Grathoff and political scientist Prof. Dr Gerhard Kraiker.
- By a large majority, the University Senate has approved the establishment of the postgraduate programme ‘Gender Studies in Cultural Studies’ within Faculty 2: Communication/Aesthetics. In line with the recommendations of the German Council of Science and Humanities on the restructuring of doctoral training and funding, the degree programme is intended to increase the proportion of women, particularly in the subjects of art and textile studies.
