Workstream 2: Professorships
Mission of the workstream
- Developing and implementing a shared and forward-looking understanding of professorships at ETH and establishing appropriate guideposts
Topics
- Stocktaking: self-?image, rights, obligations and expectations of a professorship?
- Discussion: balance between tasks and demands (research and teaching, knowledge transfer and outreach, internal and external engagement)?
- Development: values and administrative guideposts provide orientation? aids
- Implementing a shared position: orientation, security, optimisation of the professorship and its surrounds?
Procedure
To produce a detailed analysis of the starting position, the project team followed up an initial written survey by talking directly to focus groups comprising representatives from all university groups. A total of 131 people were involved and 54 hours of group discussions took place. After such comprehensive input, the project team assessed the content of the discussions very thoroughly and identified 13 action areas, which it passed on as suggestions to the Executive Board (EB). The EB in turn prioritised the action areas for further processing. The discussions with focus groups had already shown that there are many different ideas on how a professorship should be organised. The project team therefore decided to consult with professors on compiling Good Practices for the Organisation of a Professorship. The idea behind this was to share these good examples in the next stage, so as to learn from one another. A project team is currently looking at the implementation of a suitable toolbox. Position papers were drafted for several other action areas that are now being used as a basis for implementation in the line.
Results
Documents
- Download vertical_align_bottom Summary of analysis (PDF, 1 MB)
- protected page lock Position paper Teaching obligation (AA 1) (in German) (PDF, 181 KB)
- protected page lock Position paper Outreach (AA 5) (PDF, 264 KB)
- protected page lock Position paper Global Challenges and interdisciplinary collaboration (AA 2) (in German) (PDF, 158 KB)
Significant contributors to WS2 were:
Markus Aebi, Stefan Bechtold, Philippe Block, Nina Buchmann, Alexander Caspar, Günther Dissertori, Annika Glauner, Rachel Grange, Detlef Günther, Vivienne Hanke, Volker Hoffmann, Nils Jensen, Stefan Karlen, Nicole Kasielke, Birgit Kessler, Eva Lieberherr, Danielle Luterbach, David J. Norris, Olga Pardo, Corentin Pfister, Elisabeth P?schl, Kathrin Ringger, Gabrielle Schlittler, Ueli Schneider, André Studart, Christina Taslicoglou