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With so many committees, it can be difficult to keep track of everything. Discover which Bauhaus-Universität Weimar committees you can get involved with here. In addition, student representatives report on their everyday life and their tasks.
Student self-administration defines the statutorily embedded independence afforded to the student body. Students organise themselves according to their own statutes and are responsible for shaping student life outside the classroom.
In Weimar, this means everything going on in and around M18!
M18 is the student house (»Haus der Studierenden«). This is where decisions are made by students themselves about what takes place on campus in terms of culture and sport, allocation of funding and what values, goals and attitudes are represented. Accordingly, Student Council committees are composed exclusively of students.
On the other hand, representing the interests of the university within university committees requires more formally structured and hierarchical work. Student perspectives are represented vis-à-vis other status groups or member groups of the individual faculties or the university. This is clearly different to the Dean’s Office or the Presidium, professors, academic staff and technical and administrative staff, who represent their own interests.
Representation within these bodies is not always equal, meaning other member groups may sometimes be overrepresented. Most importantly, however, decisions that can be examined and shaped from a student perspective are made herein by the faculties and the university. These could pertain, for example, to improvements in study conditions or to the setting of priorities for development of the University.
Student Government
»In the StuKo, I introduce topics from student councils to the larger group. Lots of information is exchanged and taken back to student council level. The workload involved in the organisation and execution of events such as freshers’ week, M18 activities and other smaller events is evenly distributed. Since all StuKo members are also members in a Student Council, I often have quite a lot on my plate.«
Student Council
»In the Student Council, we deal with all faculty-specific matters. I helped with preparing and executing freshers’ week and organised the closed conference. There is a lot of ›day-to-day business‹, with a focus on topics such as internationalisation as well as on smaller events and opening up university work to all students.«
Faculty Board
»In many situations where student perspectives [...] and faculty procedures are unknown, we have been able to introduce these; in some cases, we have thus even been able to alter the course of processes and outcomes. It’s important that there’s a committee in which the present and future of the faculty is discussed across all status groups. In this connection, it’s also important to actively ask students for their opinions and to take these seriously.«
Student Employees Council
»It is our duty to represent the interests of the student assistants - i.e., student employees - vis-à-vis the Bauhaus-Universität Weimar.«
Senate
»I see my role in the Senate as an interface between the student body and all other members of the university, both within and outside of the university public. The Senate is the highest committee of the Bauhaus-Universität Weimar and operates on a long-term and cross-faculty basis. Often, major decisions are taken which were previously worked out in working groups or in the individual faculties. At this level, there is no development of creative solutions to problems and challenges; instead, these solutions are presented and discussed in their final version, and ultimately also decided upon.«
Equal Opportunity Advisory Board
»The Equal Opportunity Advisory Board is composed of the Equal Opportunity Officer, who is the chair, one decentralised Equal Opportunity Officer from each of the faculties and from university administration and services as well as two female students.«