President

The President of Universität Regensburg is appointed by the State Minister of Sciences, Research, Culture and the Arts. The President’s duties are laid out in Article 21 of the Bavarian Law of Higher Education (Bayerisches Hochschulgesetz, BayHSchG) from 23 May 2006.

The President

• represents the university, convenes and chairs the meetings of the university management, and implements the resolutions of the university management as well as those of other central university bodies.
• initiates the university’s future developments and formulates the basic principles and goals of the university policy; he informs the Senate and the Board of Governors about all important matters concerning the university and its administration and submits an annual report of university management on the completion of the university’s tasks to the Board of Governors (statement of accounts).
• establishes a standing proxy and certain portfolios for the members - with the consent of the other members of the university management -, in which those members complete the ongoing transactions of the administration, each according to his own responsibilities and issues the guidelines concerning the accomplishment of the university management’s tasks.
• is the superior of all civil servants employed at the university in academic or artistic positions, as well as of all public servants of the Free State of Bavaria, and of the Secretary and Chief Financial Officer; the regulations of the Bavarian University Hospital (Bayerisches Universitätsklinikgesetz) remain unaffected. He takes on the function of a superior, if other elected members of the university management or deans do their administration work on a full-time basis.
• ensures, in cooperation with the dean, that professors and all other persons with teaching duties fulfil their teaching and examination duties in accordance with the regulations; insofar, he has the right of control and the right to issue instructions as regards the dean.
• has the domiciliary right. He recognizes the university’s tasks as laid down in Article 9 paragraph 2, Article 11 and Article 31 paragraph 1 sentence 3 of BayHSchPG and Article 65 paragraph 10 as well as those tasks stipulated by law. [...]
• In cases of an emergency, the President takes the necessary decisions and measures on behalf of the university management.

The legally binding text can be found

The President takes part in the following university committee meetings:

• University Management (as chairperson; weekly)
• Extended University Management (as chairperson; monthly)
• Cooperation Council (as chairperson; annually)
• Senate (monthly)
• Advisory Board (biannually)
• Board of Governors (quarterly)
• Faculty boards or the Professors of the Faculties (once a year in each of the 11 faculties)

In addition to that, the Rector has meetings with each of the following individuals:

• Secretary and Chief Financial Officer (weekly)
• Chairperson of the Student Committees (monthly)
• Women’s Representative / Family Service (monthly)

The Rector takes also part in the following meetings of external committees on a regular basis:

• Universität Bayern e.V. (about monthly)
• Friends of Universität Regensburg e.V. (board meetings: about monthly; Advisory Board: about quarterly)
• German Rector's Conference (biannually)
  (Conference of Presidents and Rectors of Universities and Other Higher Education Institutions in the Federal Republic of Germany)

Professor Dr. Udo Hebel is the tenth President of Universität Regensburg. His term of office in Regensburg runs from 1 April 2013 to 31 March 2017.

Udo J. Hebel is Professor and Chair of American Studies at Universität Regensburg. He taught at the universities of Mainz, Potsdam, and Freiburg, and was a Distinguished Max Kade Visiting Professor at Colorado College, Colorado Springs. He was a Visiting Scholar at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, and at Harvard University.

He has published Romaninterpretation als Textarchäologie (1989), Intertextuality, Allusion, Quotation (1989), Transatlantic Encounters (co-ed., 1995), “Those Images of Jealuosie”: Identitäten und Alteritäten im puritanischen Neuengland (1997), The Construction and Contestation of American Cultures and Identities in the Early National Period (ed., 1999), Sites of Memory in American Literatures and Cultures (ed., 2003), Visual Culture in the American Studies Classroom (co-ed., 2005), Twentieth-Century American One-Act Plays (2006), Einführung in die Amerikanistik/American Studies (2008), Transnational American Memories (ed., 2009), Pictorial Cultures and Political Iconographies (co-ed., 2011), Transnational American Studies (ed., 2012). His close to 60 articles have been published in national and international journals of American Studies.

He served as General Editor of Amerikastudien/American Studies (2002-2011) and as Deputy Director of the Bavarian American Academy. He is an elected member of the American Antiquarian Society, Worcester, MA, a member of the International Committee of the American Studies Association (ASA), and currently the President of the German Association for American Studies.

He served as Dean of the Faculty of Languages, Literatures, and Cultural Studies, as Dean of Research of the Faculty of Languages, Literatures, and Cultural Studies, and as Vice President of Universität Regensburg.

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