{"id":213,"date":"2025-06-22T16:45:17","date_gmt":"2025-06-22T16:45:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/doktorandenkonvent.uni-heidelberg.de\/senate\/"},"modified":"2026-02-13T17:41:41","modified_gmt":"2026-02-13T17:41:41","slug":"senate","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/doktorandenkonvent.uni-heidelberg.de\/en\/senate\/","title":{"rendered":"Senate"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\">What is the Senate?<\/h4>\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>highest decision-making body of the University (e.g. examination, doctoral regulations, professorships etc.)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>determines strategic orientation of the University in research, studies, teaching<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>various committees available for selective engagement<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>4 voting seats<\/strong> available for doctoral students!<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">More information is available on the university <a href=\"https:\/\/www.uni-heidelberg.de\/de\/einrichtungen\/senat\">website<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"anker_AktuelleMitglieder\">Members<\/h4>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Nicole Villanueva<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Ludmila Hustus<\/p>\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"anker_Senatswahlen\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.uni-heidelberg.de\/universitaet\/beschaeftigte\/service\/recht\/wahlen\/index.html\">Senate elections 2025<\/a><\/h4>\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>10. Juni (11:00 Uhr) \u2013 16. Juni (11:00 Uhr)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Term of office one year<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.uni-heidelberg.de\/universitaet\/beschaeftigte\/service\/recht\/wahlen\/index.html\">Results<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"anker_Hintergrund\">Background<\/h4>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">With the amendment of the University State Law (Landeshochschulgesetz), effective since March 30th, 2018, doctoral students became an independent status group at the universities in Baden-Wuerttemberg implying the right to vote in university boards, implying the right to vote in university boards.<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Basic Statute (Grundordnung) of Heidelberg University was adapted accordingly in the beginning of 2019. Consequently, doctoral students received four seats in the Senate, the highest decision-making body of the University, and up to three seats in each Faculty Council. Besides students, Academic Employees and non-academic employees (all occupying four of 39 voting seats in Senate), doctoral students now constitute the fourth non-professorial status group of the University Senate.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What is the Senate? More information is available on the university website. 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