JA@UTOPIA
Current situation:
CVB
Dean 1
Dean 2
Dean 3
Institute director 3
Institute director 4
Institute director 2
Institute director 1
Chair 1
Chair 3
Institute director 5
Chair 4
Chair 5
Chair 6
Chair 2
Chair n
UHD
UD
TT
UD
TT
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JA@UTopia
Problems:
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2 bosses with conflicting interests (dean and institute director)
Financial evaluation is placed above doing good research
The allocation model is not transparent
Position of TT unclear
Scientific merits are not always valued, old rights/good lobbying
often works
• Support organization suboptimal, centralization does not work for
everything
• Enormous amounts of committees
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JA@UTopia
Ideal organization :
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One chief to deal with (either dean or director)
Research institutes are important
Flat organization
TT is on equal footing with the tenured staff (like in American system)
TT is scientifically and financially independent
Overhead/management should be reduced (also for the new
education system)
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JA@UTOPIA
Allocation:
• Ideally salary and lab facilities are covered by university
based on scientific quality indicator
• PhD students and postdoc expenses are financed by
projects (flexibility in full cost model-transparency).
• Long term stability of policy to provide stability for
research groups
• Declaration of hours for committee work
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JA@UTOPIA
CVB
Chief 1
Chief 3
Chief 2
Research Cluster 1
Research cluster 3
Research cluster 2
spokesman
HL
TT
HL
TT
HL
TT
TT
HL
HL
Secretaries + Technicians + general equipment
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JA@UTOPIA
What can a person in a Tenure Track expect
from the university ?
• Commitment
Start-up package
e.g. by providing a PhD position in the TT own research line
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