Children Bachelor enemy.

The Bologna reform makes studying parents' lives: attendance, streamlined program that constantly tests - that an infant has no understanding. The system allows students verschulte too little time to get to the little ones to worry about.

 

In the town of Giessen Pohlheim are the differences between old and new, visible in the smallest space. There is a flat two families. In both families the mother and father to study in both there is a small child. But does the daily life of the WG both parties sometimes extreme.

Heiko Meyer
A flat, two families, two programs of study: David and Kristin Rust Lütgenau with son Janusz, Jan and Sarah Benner Kohlhof-Kohlhof with daughter Mia Lena in Pohlheim in Giessen

Family One: Sarah-Kohlhof Benner, 25, is studying primary school teaching profession and Jan Kohlhof, 28, computer science, to state and diploma. Their one-year daughter Mia Lena have them in the day Lida Maleki housed.

Family Two: Lütgenau David, 24, studied special schools and Kristin Rust, 23, social sciences, both in the new bachelor degree program. Her seven-month-old son also serves Janusz Lida Maleki.

Leave only two semesters Pack

The huge difference: While Sarah and Jan's services Lida really only need sporadic, Kristin and David would be without them aufgeschmissen. They have the new power under Bologna.

Bologna, bachelor, that is, a tight timetable to follow, which means attendance in many modules, vacation semester often only in two pack because cross-semester seminars, ongoing trials. All things associated with the time requirements of an infant's difficult to bring them into compliance are.

So Kristin and David need to support their housemates and the childminder. But sometimes you can find anyone to them Janusz decreases. "Fortunately, most professors have no objection to a child in the lecture."

Similarly, it currently takes many of the approximately 123,000 student parents in Germany - certainly the 15 percent of them to educate their child alone. The new turbo-study with his Bachelor's and Master's degrees, it face major organizational problems. In the latest survey of the student were almost a quarter of respondents indicated that they are not once again for a child during the study that would determine.

"First child with me in mid-30 would be too late '

It says Sarah is "the study is actually
a good time for children's war. "She was with her study" time-flexible than in the job. "Moreover, they feel fresh enough for the demands of the parents' existence:" My first child in mid-30 to get me would be too late. "

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The policy aims to graduate more children. Students are entitled to the Federal Family Minister Ursula von der Leyen (CDU) introduced Elterngeld, albeit usually only at the minimum rate of 300 euros per month. And who Bafög relates receives additional 113 Euro for the first and 85 euros for each additional child. In addition, student parents may be entitled to housing benefit. In some German states, Bavaria, for instance, can they exemption from tuition fees apply.

But the shortage is covered elsewhere in size, since it is the students like the professionals: There are not enough care for the kids. Only 5500 places nationwide offer the student in kindergarten or in cribs. In many cases, who will provide a grab wants to wait months or years.

Part-time studies? Not really planned

Janke Reuschel, 29, has one of the coveted places for their three year old daughter get Marlia. But when the lone social economics student from Hamburg during the evening or on weekends or major events due Marlia is sick, it must be a friend for help. "The Bachelor, you can so the events are not more to choose," she explains. Janke has applied for part-time studies - the curriculum of new courses to take part, but hardly the end Zeitler consideration.

Sometimes there is a lack of the universities to understand the constraints, which must obey their parents: "One of my professors said that I should be studying rather leave when I am not of the normal requirements can adapt," says the student Lehramt Barbara bounce from Giessen. At a place in the Uni-Kita waiting in vain so far, only 18 children can come there. In doing so, the University of Giessen the certificate "family-oriented institution."

Still want to get the student to the parents of adversity does not get under and somehow organize their daily lives. Like the aspiring literary scholar Anne Küchler, 27, in Hamburg. Since a single year is Anne, looked her son Simon, but alternately with her ex-boyfriend.

"I'm happy, not just at home having to be," says Küchler. Your old student lives they do not miss. "Now I live in two worlds that collide. That makes life but just beautiful." She laughs. "And fun anyway."

Hunt for hidden knowledge.

In the exam time many students to mutate Fieslingen - and hide books, to include them in the library all to itself to have. Luer-Henning Flake, 21, is something like their natural enemy: jobbt He viewfinder than books at the University of Duisburg-Essen.

 

That students during their studies, casual work, is normal. Luer-Henning Flake, 21, is an unusual job. As books viewfinder at the University of Duisburg-Essen, he several times a week at the game after missing Literature in the University library.

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"The job is fun, it's always an achievement when you book again," says Flake. Ten hours a week driving from Viersen-born student of cultural industries with his car, the course books of the library at Essen. 8.56 euros to get it, plus paid vacation.

Offender profile: Economics student

For about two months, the prospective host culture and its Bibliotheksjob feels comfortable. "The atmosphere in a library is very pleasant." This is also his predecessor as a book finder, Sven-Arvid finished. The philosophy and German literature student did this job about a year and a half behind and knew pretty much all the hiding places. "Some students hid the books in part in other shelves or deposited under the shelves, so it was not."

About 250 books were finished so in the course of a month. He was among the first to take this job at the university made. During the final, now assistant to a professor is like after studying additional training in library studies in Cologne, Germany wants to see luer Henning Flake his first job only as a temporary job.

After about two months work as a viewfinder also has books he has a profile of hiding books created. He noticed that students mainly from the library to learn to use hidden or books are not returned. And: "Often, the business students in the case."

Especially in times of trials, there is plenty of work for Flake. "Many things are borrowed, and it is only because of the presence of stock, then it is hidden." However, it was still never a culprit caught red-handed.

The library is preparing to book on hiding

Students had trouble with it for the books never viewfinder. "It is forbidden books to hide. Because the people care then, what to say, if we can find the books," said Flake. Rather Flake is seen as someone representing a further help. For the students, he is now an important partner. "The ever ask me where they can find a book." Flake comes with his job against his body size. The amateur basketball players is over 1.90 meters tall. This helps him to the higher shelves of the library to investigate.

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For the university is worth hiring Büchersuchern. Around two million copies of the university has in its inventory. Books cost a lot of money, an average of 30 euros, and many a copy of which has already been lost, submerged by the work of students as respondents and Flake again. At 250 copies, the books per month viewfinder again, large sums of money come together, which the university can save.

To promote the books curb further losses, the library management for new technologies. Thus, an electronic security system, the so-called radio transponder, the location of a book by signal log. The library staff checked with a detector the shelves, which then emit a signal. At the same time you can borrow books for faster transactions and the specimens are better protected from theft and the Hide protected.

The Konfettirisierung of research and teaching.

Students rebelling against bachelor's degree in rumort professors, too. Jörn-Axel Meyer sees strong fragmentation trends: The study points to a pure fighter, and also the increasingly small-scale research, criticized the Berlin scientists in the host contribution.

 

Already in 1994 dubbed the Saarbrückener economists Bruno Tietz the development of the German research with the term "Konfettirisierung" - and so brought the assembled colleagues laugh. But as the laughter, this comparison with the fragments, which in joyous occasions in the air will not now. The term seems well suited to describe what we in the German university landscape experience, both in teaching and in research.

First there is the doctrine, which focuses on the new Bachelor's and Master's degrees are available. They arose in the wake of the decisions of the European Ministers of Education in Bologna in 1999 and meetings were to follow in the years thereafter concretised. The overall goal was the harmonization of European higher education. The new courses are not only internationally more comparable and compatible ", they are also more efficient, shorter, and early academic study and allow more mobility between universities.

Knowledge is not yet thinking

The implementation in Germany
caused much criticism. The expected effects on comparability, mobility and short duration of the study seem to show more recent studies, only rudimentary, or even not to have occurred. The new bachelor's or master's degree but show a markedly different than the previous teaching courses at diploma and degree. Even though learning may not be efficient, which it was learned. And at what price?

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Jörn-Axel Meyer, 46, is the direction in Industrial Mechanical Engineering and University Professor. Since 2002 he heads the Institute for German small and medium-sized enterprises in Berlin.

Many of the new programs are characterized by the simple juxtaposition of - sometimes referred ambitious - courses. In Germany accredited courses were mostly composed of a sequence of events exist. Each of these courses will be from a faculty contest, otherwise they are not coordinated.

The teachers - many low or no abgefunden and much more by the hope of academic Lehrtitel motivated - know each other and not even know what is going on in other courses taught there. The student is then on leave from the mosaic of a coherent curriculum herauszulesen. Thus the impression of a regular cluster of teaching confetti left.

Costly Lehrapparate, or even permanently occupied chairs are in principle for such courses is not necessary. And this is like those seen with low Lehrkosten maximum tuition fees in the market and thus achieve commercial success or simply want to avoid budget gaps.

For knowledge is minutiae

This dismemberment and fragmentation of knowledge can be minutiae. They animate the students, knowledge acquisition as "abzuhakendes" collect points to understand. Were 20 years ago the students throughout the Department examined, it is now almost entirely of only a previously designated part of the substance queried.

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But this stands in stark contrast to the changing demands of our society, an increasingly holistic understanding of our world requires - less of a "knowledge" but rather a "thinking" in contexts, analogies and causalities.

That there is another way, shows the alleged U.S. model, where many bachelor's degree in the teaching of thinking and ability to detect correlations are. In Germany, although the name, but not over this basic philosophy.

These are the conditions for teachers in Germany - yet - well, if Lehrstuhlinhaber sovereign may represent a subject, they can be the students from their first to the last day in the university and accompany them with a meaningful arc through their professions as a whole provide a coherent picture of the contents and ways of thinking. This strength of the German university system, however, with new courses too often lost. And it seems that the holistic-minded professors are increasingly due to the very specialized professor is removed, hence the Konfettirisierung already in the person of the researcher and teacher begins.

One indicator of this theory can be derived from changing the appeal process to read. Assessors for appeals squint - except on the somewhat mundane criterion of third party funding - now almost exclusively on the publication of refereed articles in journals of the candidates, as in "rated A-or B-Journals" (where A and B are the best ratings). Monographs and textbooks are almost no longer be considered.

Researchers are focusing increasingly on close subjects

While it is positive if the quality of the publication on the rank of the publishing medium is measured, although it leads the researchers to deal with highly specialized, but recognized individual contributions ( "Papers") scientific eminence. Books, however, as a possible embodiment of a more holistic and especially a comprehensive view, remain on the line - not least because they are rarely subject to verification by third parties are subject.

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A second indicator is found in the Habilitation, which many young scientists, despite the introduction of the junior professorship still aspire: While it is still a decade ago was a stigma, rather than a closed monography (broad, yet specialized in one part) with a series of individual contributions (ie, "cumulative") to habilitieren, this is almost standard today.

Extensive writings are now no longer in the evaluation of candidates for professorships tend to favor highly specialized individual contributions respected, then the researchers, and hence the later teachers of the incentive to devote more attention to a narrow area to concentrate when you attempt to do also take a more fundamental and wider arc to beat.

But it is precisely this ability to our professors, despite the specialized expertise received. Because who does not bow to the great beat, you can not convey it. Fragmentation in research is also a fragmentation of teaching expected.

Misconceived professional qualification

But this - misunderstood - a model from the U.S. seems to be appealing. There are many self-employed teachers, professors, all with titles, but on very different skill levels. In addition to full professor, the chair holders of German universities are most likely to meet, there are a greater number of Assistant and Associate Professors. There are usually no lone assistant in the system of professorate still can and want to climb (Tenure Track). They are often extremely specialized and sometimes found only with a handful of colleagues around the world who share their territory.

With this specialization, there is a tendency to focus primarily with highly specific journal articles to scientific eminence. It is noticeable that those scientists who have extensive and respected publishing monographs or textbooks, primarily full professor with an integral distance from the matter.

So it's no surprise that in the United States is a principle in the appointment criteria to recognize it: the higher the rank of qualification (from Assistant to Associate to Full Professor), the more generalist the professor. This principle we have been in Germany in the same way in the development of scientific staff assistant to the university college or university professor attends. But now we tend to Germany to the same criteria for the young as well as for the occupation of the (actually mature) Chair holder thereof - and thus the fragmentation in the organization of professors, and thus the research.

The German higher education system would do well to, if it retains its strength, not only in research, even in teaching. While we are now a shift in the American doctrine towards greater education of the mind can see, we run into Germany in pursuit of a misunderstood, specific to the fragmentation of professional qualification in teaching again afterwards. How fast, however, is certain zeitgeist philosophies and models as an aberration and out to change that makes us just before the financial world.

"Moni-rocket" before Off.

It is a leadership struggle without precedent: after a mutiny by professors and students of Hamburg Uni-President Auweter-Kurtz little chance to stay in office. There are negotiations, the separation is blogs ONLINE Information inevitable - despite gestures of humility boss.

 

Finally everything went pretty fast. Even last week, it looked as give-Kurtz Monika Auweter again a probation period in order for a semi-peaceful coexistence at the University of Hamburg to provide. Thus, it is on the lecture-free period in the winter semester can save. But after the turmoil of recent days is clear: The Uni-President is not in their office, can be maintained.

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Monika-Auweter Kurtz: End of an unusual dispute in sight

Auweter-Kurtz, 58, graduated from the University of virtually no more backing after deans, professors, academic staff and students for months openly rebelled against them. The physicist, the university in a structural reform to keep trying, but it resulted mainly in a severe crisis, as the University of Hamburg in its history has not yet experienced. At the end of science is also Senator Herlind Gundelach (CDU) by Kurtz-Auweter away.

The most recent events: On Thursday afternoon from 16 clock brought together representatives of Higher Education and the Faculties. The University Council consists of nine members, four each by the senate of the university and determined by the Senate, the Presidency of the ninth member Albrecht Wagner, the former head of the research center DESY. It is a crucial body - to his duties include selecting and deselecting the university president.

Senator withdraws support

At the meeting on Thursday made Deans and Dean of Faculties - certainly
Not for the first time - well, that they are a collaboration with Auweter-Kurtz no longer able to imagine. Of the six deans of faculties, five were in the process, only the medical dean did not participate. As participants report was the general picture is as clear as in the weeks and months before: Solo Grän Henry, dean of mathematics and science, voted for the Uni-President - all the other participating deans against them. The University subsequently advised chairman Herlind Gundelach on the results.

The science senator had on Wednesday afternoon in a recent hour of citizenship hardly words to defend Auweter-Kurtz found, but said that their "culture of leadership and quality" in question - in a break from the "many perceived as a crisis" be. Gundelach also said: "It's not about individuals but about the welfare of the university." And: From the university now must come a sign of whether you Auweter-Kurtz wish to continue working.

This signal knew the senator at that time, however, already. Already on the previous day that had deans and dean, the heads of five major departments (excluding medicine), a crisis summit held for several hours. Temporarily were also the three vice-presidents and the Chancellor there. Tuesday-The result was a No to Auweter-Kurtz - with an overwhelming majority. It was the President himself, the University Council and Senator Gundelach on Wednesday morning. And on Wednesday afternoon in the citizenship then went alongside politicians from Greens, the SPD and the Left also Gundelach at a distance.

"We hope it goes fast"

"The characters from the university are clear," said Timo Friedrich, spokesman for the authority of science, on Friday morning. There were discussions with the President and the University Council on the further procedure and still a lot to negotiate. In an interview with blogs ONLINE Friedrichs be expressed more clearly on the future of Auweter-Kurtz: "We hope that they do not need too much cooling and that it goes quickly."

According to information from blogs, the University ONLINE Auweter-Kurtz, which is currently not located in Hamburg, where cooling over the weekend. But this is manifestly not the farewell to himself, only to the arrangements - could be cancellation, suspension or contract (in the toughest and most improbable case) dismissal. The six-year contract with Uni-President runs until 2012.

It is probable that Auweter-Kurtz now with lawyers legal and monetary issues, and probably also explains the possibilities of a return to Stuttgart, where they were before the inauguration in the North as head of the Steinbeis Transfer Center for Space Plasma and technology worked. For an opinion on the outstanding issues could ONLINE blogs can not reach - her spokesman Alexander Luckow confirmed only vague: "There are negotiations with senior members of the university and the academic authority to the leadership of the university."

Even before taking office in autumn 2006, there was criticism of Auweter-Kurtz Monika - students threw her tuition per occurrence and too close to the defense industry, which it the nickname "rocket-Moni" eintrug. You should university reforms vigorously push forward, was brought as a powerful maker - a
Break with tradition in German universities. Even after a few months ago there were arguments about their harsh treatment of university members. Professors and students criticized an authoritarian leadership style and brusque tone of Auweter-Kurtz, the discussions sometimes with "I want it but it" should have ended - what debattierfreudigen universities seldom sufficed as an argument.

Because of alleged transgression and expertise in finance official arrogance and appellate matters developed the faculties of Law, Humanities, Economics and Social Sciences in March 2008 with a 42-page lawsuit against the president. In tears should Auweter-Kurtz praised improvements have nobody whereupon the courts decided. "Has changed the behavior of the President but not," is now a law professor disappointed.

In the last two weeks, when the backing rapidly disappeared, had Auweter-Kurtz in the creep mode and humility rehearsed gestures, including publicly demonstrated remorse by press conference and with a
open letter to all members of the university. Your key messages is that the communication was "shortly to come" and they even have the university with their pace too much to accept.

"She has forgiven us ..."

Professors and scientific staff, the signatures collected against the president had responded, however, suspicious and hostile - they bought Auweter the new-Kurtz
Kuschel course simply does not. And the majority of deans saw no perspective anymore. From a student was left-Auweter Kurtz for their repentance letter mocks: "She has forgiven us," they wrote on a flyer and rejoiced sarcastically, "that we are the President, blind, deaf and numb can trust." And further, in allusion to the soft Schwäbeln the boss: You could but now "a big reconciliation Fescht organize on campus, where we burn the University of Mission."

Had become increasingly loud demands for the resignation in early May, Auweter-Kurtz increasingly lost ground - partly because of her vote for a billion dollar university building in the port instead of a renovation and expansion in the traditional district Eimsbüttel. Exactly, but there are significant educational policy of the major parties anchored Town Hall, the Auweter against Kurtz-up with Wolfgang Beuß (CDU), Dorothee Stapelfeldt (SPD), Krista Sager (Green).

A direct political defeat saw the President, as the black-green coalition government, the adoption of a new "Science Promotion Act" in mid-June from the agenda adopted. Now, once the viability of the existing law to be reviewed. In the planned amendment was - against the protest of the professors - provided the university management to large departments to be strengthened. The President should be the sole right to submit proposals for the election of deans, which previously elected by the faculty, with the university management subsequent refusal right.

Sun refuses to Auweter-Kurtz since 6 May constant, the professors and students unanimously selected humanities dean to put into office. The theologian was a decisive 'yes' to collegial leadership and a clear no to presidential leadership in position. University Intern Auweter-Kurtz is also compatible with its structure and development plan for the future of the University of stuck. They wanted to in June in the Academic Senate, the highest government body, have durchgeboxt. But since this week is only once he has the insight for all.

If Auweter-Kurtz now, the new body president and internationally. Presumably, the acting vice president take the lead, depending on how fast the place farewell. By the end of the month would be the first deputy Holger Fischer in the series, from 1 July would then Gabriele Löschper replace.

"The communication was too short."

For months already, there is considerable disquiet to Monika Auweter-Kurtz. Many professors, lecturers, students and deans are calling for the resignation of the Hamburg Uni-President. Meanwhile, it has acknowledged errors. ONLINE blogs documenting their open letter dated Tuesday, 23 June 2009.

 

Open Letter to the President

Dear Colleagues,

Campus toll hated than ever.

For Germany's universities and educational policy, it is a slap in the face: In terms of tuition fees each student is lacking confidence. Almost three-quarters are for the immediate abolition, almost nobody believes in improvement of teaching. This shows a new poll.

 

If there was a golden cucumber miserable for dealing with tuition fees, the Niederrhein University would best chance of the negative price abzuräumen. Over more than a year disguised the college to the students what to do with their money charges happened.

As the students discovered it, gave her FH almost half the student euros, six million accumulated in two years, not for better teaching, but
bunkerte for bad times. The students were outraged, but that availed nothing: The university showed them the cold shoulder. Transparency and timely use for teaching? Nothing doing.

A glaring case-by Gebührenschluderei is rather not. German universities in the six provinces that are currently a general campus toll money, shows a highly inventive when it comes to the use of the revenue goes. According to the rules of the countries is the money is always better and always learn from this. But what exactly that means - yes it can be interpreted very differently.

Three-quarters of the abolition of tolls Campus

A recent study by the University of Hohenheim shows nationwide feel inadequate fee payers on the use of several thousand euros, for which they must complete their studies up being informed. Almost three-quarters of the campus would toll rather than later to see abolished.

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For the third time students raved on behalf of the Marketing Department at the University of Hohenheim and surveyed from 5600 paid-peers from 49 universities. The interest of researchers: What is the tuition and satisfaction with their use? For the individual universities, the results are now clearly prepared under
www.gebuehrenkompass.de Assessment.

Now is the interview with some hundred randomly selected on each campus students are not representative. But the study provides a fairly broad mood among the students, usually twice a year for every 500 euro will be charged - and each time wondering why, actually. This mood is gloomy than ever:

Nearly three quarters of the license fee payers are responsible for the immediate abolition of fees (72 percent). This figure is still only two percentage points higher than the result from the previous year.

71.5 percent of the respondents in their study environment, no direct improvement of teaching, the majority of this group (80 percent) foresee in the future with no improvements.

In school terms, the license fee payers are almost as unhappy as the previous year: tuition fees are "sufficient to poor" rated (4.2 grade, in the previous year: 4.6).

Least bad students in Claustal-Zellerfeld, at the RWTH Aachen and Würzburg in the charges - but also their votes do not come with a 4 plus addition (3.5 and lower). Dissatisfaction are the students in Hanover (5.0), Wuppertal (4.9) and Hamburg (4.9).

Main criticism of the students - in addition to the fees themselves - is the lack of transparency. You will note the 4.3 is also very poorly rated.

Strongholds of the charges, according to opponents of Hohenheim investigation Braunschweiger Kunsthochschule and universities in Oldenburg and victories, with rejection rates of over 80 percent.

However nourishes the result, at least for victories doubts about investigation and method: There is the opposition of 52 percent last year to 80.4 per cent increase - a result that is Asta-Speaker Julian Hopmann from Siegen not quite explain. "There were no particular incidents. We are so unhappy as a year ago, and it is still very difficult for people against the tuition fees to mobilize," he said blogs ONLINE.

At the University of the study organizers in Hohenheim, the students are given the lax handling of their money in the past year particularly disillusioned. The university management under Rector Hans-Peter Liebig decided in his own glory, with the student money now gaping budget holes. Liebig was then by the students themselves as a fairly representative
Sun King parody of the money of students to the window herauswerfe.

For their behavior, the Hohenheim University in managing the receipt of the survey: While the satisfaction with the use of school can easily touch 4.5 to 4.2 have improved. But in Hohenheim almost nobody believes more in future improvements of teaching - only 15 percent in the previous year, more than twice as many.

This is true, however, the mood in all countries of fees: On average, only about every fifth student feels that the tuition will improve teaching. As is incubating, ferments, much discontent rumort, the license fee payers are very pessimistic. That, however, is at most universities where little.

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Voeth study Author: He calls for more transparency

  As at the FH Niederrhein needed it in a whole range of universities and FHS in North Rhine-Westphalia only one
tangible threat by Science Minister Andreas Pinkwart (FDP), before the high school and responded
Now hurry million for its original purpose to spend the students since the introduction vorgebetet is better study conditions in the teaching, timely and transparent.

That these claims also Hohenheimer study author Markus Voeth to those at universities in the conclusion of the investigation. The road is still a long way to convince all the goodwill mission to Germany's universities. Voeth can even order at the same university where he teaches beginning.

"We want to see action soon."

Per Signature list some hamburgers professors call for the resignation of university President-Kurtz Monika Auweter - and can not placate: interview offers were "no more than a PR campaign," three professors respond to an invitation. ONLINE blogs documenting their letter dated Wednesday, 24 June 2009.

 

24. June 2009

Dear Madam President,

Thank you for your letter dated 16 June 2009 and is included with the appointment confirmation (...). We will respond to your invitation to an interview with the Bureau in accordance with your wishes to all university teachers and professors who have signed our call, forward.

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We are surprised, however, by the contents of your letter in which you are not on the central point of our letter received on the question of the meaning and intent of the conversation. The Monita are well known and in the so-called deans letter much more clearly articulated than by us. You have in your
"open letter" to the University of numerous members of the criticisms raised. Therefore, we can not see what another reciting the well-known critique of a profit verspräche. In addition, we believe, like many colleagues, after two and a half years and not realized several announcements of changing their mind from you (the faculties complaints!) Is not simply that the current demonstrations are more than a PR campaign. To make it clearer to say: We want deeds, not repetitive Bedauernsaussagen hear.

Surprised we are still on your proposal for a conversation moderated by Mr Redlich, but his conditions are quite different than those you mentioned. Mr Redlich suggests in an e-mail three per three-rounds in small circles before, exactly the opposite of what you have called us, when you talk to all the signatories asked. As much as we use the

Redlich colleagues appreciate it is unacceptable for us, but the proposal, in the final semester of several rounds of talks in small groups to organize, not least because so that the wrong impression that the current situation was a personal conflict between you and the initiators of the call and could in a small group "finely" are.

We are on your offer to call received, because we give you the opportunity wanted us by our actions to convince. Their activities over the past weeks indicate, however, rather suggests that, under the keyword "Komunikationsverbesserung" is nothing in the matter, at least in the form of a little change. That is not enough. The trust relationship is irreparably disturbed, and even if not the reputation of the University of Hamburg were already severely damaged, the former should be sufficient to mature insight from regret to leave. With your resignation, you can make it clear that you have the university at heart - and not averting your deselecting on 9 July 2009.

Yours sincerely,

Prof. Dr. Michael Friedrich