University of Applied Sciences Board
Becoming a university of applied sciences:
Submission of the application to be awarded with the status of a university of applied sciences further to voting by student representatives and teaching and research staff delegates in June 2006.
Recognition of status as a University of Applied Sciences on 11.07.2006.
Functions:
The University of Applied Sciences Board takes decisions about the scientific and strategic needs with regards to the running of courses, examinations and research. It is the highest-ranking academic body of any university of applied sciences.
Functions of the University of Applied Sciences Board notably include*:
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Election of the Head of the Board and his/her Deputy based on three names put forward by the partners; in agreement with the University of Applied Sciences Board the proposal can be reduced to two names;
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Submission of requests to the partners for the dismissal of the Head of the Board or his/her Deputy or the comment on such an intention on the part of the partners in the event that the Head (or his/her Deputy) brings his/her office into gross disrepute or neglects his/her office or if he/she is no longer in the position to fulfil the duties of his/her position;
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Change requests concerning accredited degree programmes in agreement with the partners;
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Submission for the introduction and discontinuation of degree programmes in agreement with the partners;
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Presentation of budget proposal to the partners (investments, operating expenditure, personnel expenditure);
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Presentation of proposals to the partners regarding the appointment and dissmissal of teaching and research staff;
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Coordination of content of teaching sessions and examinations;
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Evaluation of teaching and examinations, as well as of the teaching timetable and examination regulations;
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Awarding of academic qualifications and their revocation, recognition of foreign qualifications as well as awarding of academic honors in agreement with the partners which are usual within the University system;
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Enactment of statutes and rules of procedure in agreement with the partners. In any case, the statutes must contain the following: study and examination regulations, election procedures for the University of Applied Sciences Board, information on the organisation of working committees and their statutes, if required, gender mainstreaming measures, regulations on the promotion of women as well as guidelines for the appropriate usage of university titles and information on the award of academic honours. Rules of procedure have to be published in an appropriate manner.
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Decisions on appeals against decisions made by the head of the Degree Programme.
As Head of the University of Applied Sciences Board, functions of the Rector notably include*:
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As long as there is a full-time staff body, communication to members of the teaching and research personnel regarding the manner and scope of the practice of their teaching duties, insofar as this is essential for the proper maintenance of the running of degree programmes as per the requirements of the timetable;
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Granting of lectureships based on suggestions or further to hearings of the University of Applied Sciences Board;
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Representation of the University of Applied Sciences Board externally, as well as the execution of decisions taken by the University of Applied Sciences Board.
*§ 10 Universities of Applied Sciences Law, Federal Law Gazette. Nr. 340/1993 idgF
Members:
Members of the University of Applied Sciences Board are, in accordance with §10 (2) of the University of Applied Sciences Law, the Head and his/her Deputy, Heads of the various Degree Programmes, representatives of full-time and part-time lecturers and student representatives. The Head of the University of Applied Sciences Board will be named as Rector. The University of Applied Sciences Board holds at least 4 ordinary meetings per academic year.
The statutory meeting, at which the election of the Head of the University of Applied Sciences Board and his/her Deputy took place, was held on 27.09.2010:
Head of University of Applied Sciences Board:
o. Univ.-Prof. Dr. Franz Schrank
Deputy-Head of University of Applied Sciences Board:
FH-Professor MMag. Günter Zullus, Stb.
Management of the University of Applied Sciences Board:
o.Univ.-Prof. Dr. Franz Schrank - Head
FH-Prof. Mag. Mag. Günter Zullus Stb. - Deputy-Head
Heads of Degree Programmes:
FH-Prof. Mag. (FH) Mag. Dr. Ernst Kreuzer, MSc - Information Technologies & Business Informatics
Dipl.-Ing. Dr. Hans Lercher - Innovation Management
Mag. Dr. Karin Madenberger - International Marketing & Sales Management
FH-Prof. Mag. Peter Meiregger, Stb. - Financial Accounting & Management Accounting
FH-Prof. Dipl.-Ing. Dr. Udo Traussnigg - Automation Technology
Representatives of the teaching and research personnel:
Mag. Mag. Birgit De Pauli-Ferch - Representative of part-time teaching and research personnel - Innovation Management, International Marketing & Sales Management and Financial Accounting & Management Accounting
Mag. Mag. Markus Enzinger - Representative of part-time teaching and research personnel - Innovation Management, International Marketing & Sales Management and Financial Accounting & Management Accounting
FH-Prof. Dipl.-Ing. Dr. Stefan Grünwald - Representative of full-time teaching and research personnel – Information Technologies & Business Informatics
FH-Prof. Dipl.-Ing. Dr. Franz Haas - Representative of full-time teaching and research personnel – Automation Technology
DI (FH) Wolfgang Koren - Representative of part-time teaching and research personnel – Automation Technology and Information Technologies & Business Informatics
FH-Prof. Dipl.-Ing. Dr. Börge Kummert - Representative of full-time teaching and research perrsonnel – Innovation Management
Dipl.-Ing. Ernst Mairhofer - Representative of full-time teaching and research personnel – International Marketing & Sales Management
Dr. Helmut Michl - Representative of full-time teaching and research personnel – Financial Accounting & Management Accounting
Student representatives:
Rudolf Grünbichler, BA - Financial Accounting & Management Accounting
Markus Gruber - Information Technologies & Business Informatics
Stefan Lanzinger, BA - International Marketing & Sales Management
Ing. Gerd-Felix Uitz - Innovation Management
Ing. Daniel Zefferer - Automation Technology