Master plan or disaster plan?.

The Stuttgart rector hopes to excellence laurel and the university wants to rigorously rebuild: Science and Technology will grow - and the subjects Grübel bleed. It goes up 24 professorships. Students and teachers of the humanities do not want to accept.

 

Since Thursday is it official: The Humanities at the University of Stuttgart are in favor of the technical fields of study before harsh cuts. In a "masterplan", the university rector Wolfram Ressel presented the press, are the drastic measures.

Nor are proposals, not decisions. But the anger among students and professors in the faculties of the cuts is already large. Nearly 100 students stormed into garbage bags dressed the press conference. They spoke of a "disaster".

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Student Demo: Stuttgart, here comes the master

"We are here, we are loud, because we are the formation of steals," chanted the students with a clear-cutting in the humanities fear. Ressel meanwhile confirmed and specified in the last few days in media kursierenden plans. Accordingly, the university even more engineering and science-orientated. For the restructuring are 24 chairs available to be redirected.

"Profile-building measures" called the Rector. The objective is for future competitions, priority for the next round of the Excellence Initiative, "to make fit." 2007, Baden-Württemberg's universities in the Excellence Initiative aufgetrumpft. The University of Stuttgart, the promotion of a
Graduate School and a "cluster of excellence" in engineering sciences, but went with the "future concepts", the main conveyor line, empty-handed. But there are 27 candidates. From the southwest to convince the jurors of Freiburg, Heidelberg and Constance.

16 professors in the humanities at risk

The Rector will "go back areas that are no longer in the center of the university." On the string list are eight professorships in less forschungsträchtigen subjects of engineering and natural sciences, including the fields of architecture, urban water, biology, chemistry and physics. This compares to 16 but lost the professors in the humanities and economics.

Affected are the Historical Institute, the art, the operations and economics, and - alone with five chairs - the Literatures. Only in the German specialist is to strengthen planned. Overall, eight of the ten faculties Stuttgart reduced.

"Where is restructured, is always something on the line," admitted the Rector of the Uni-A. But the University of Stuttgart are also in the future, the universitas "in mind." It was "not the goal, the humanities and social sciences should be abolished." The university must now even the future need to restructure and was "forced". Since no additional funds from the Land Baden-Württemberg to be expected, "must also be redistributed, so Ressel.

According to the rector of the "Master" now in the ten faculties with a total of some 150 institutes and in the bodies will be discussed. Changes, he does not. Thus as the medieval already on the string list, but will now remain intact. By the end of September, the initiative in the rectorate Uni-bodies to be discussed and decided. The university should be in the Humanities "in the direction of cultural knowledge" to develop, said Ressel.

Whole areas "to the bleeding" condemned?

The protesting students were not impressed. With banners they made clear to them that the rector of the asking price for the hope for a successful participation in competitions is too high, even if the rector repeated assurances that there was only a "streamlining" go. In a statement of students' representatives stated that the affected areas were "the bleeding" condemned.

Even a professor from the History Department made its displeasure aerial. From the rows of listeners, and with loud applause from students he attacked in the press conference, the rector verbally to: The Masterplan "amputated" the humanities, he railed and spoke of an "unlawful and dangerous narrowing of the diversity of subjects. The rector remained calm. "It is always difficult to be separated from something," he challenged the room. As the professor threatened, by his institute has already developed proposals for the next cluster of Excellence application, Ressel but then swallowed it. He would be about this other information, he said only.

The students can while on support from the policy look: The SPD chairman Country Ute Vogt, the University at the university's political wrong "and announced their support for the protests to. The Greens promise resistance. The "scrapping" the Stuttgart humanities should not be tolerated, it is said in a statement by the Green-Land Group.