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"We must patiently and wisely face the burden and challenge ahead"

After a joint presidium meeting with the deans, Prof. Dr. Walter Bauer-Wabnegg, President of the University of Erfurt, wrote to the lecturers to draw their attention once again to the challenges for the lecture period starting on Monday, November 2, and appealed to the responsibility of all. The wording of his letter...

Dear colleagues, dear lecturers and staff, dear assistant lecturers,

in view of the rapidly increasing dynamics of infection nationwide, we receive a large number of queries from your ranks regarding the further organisation of the winter semester and also warning reports regarding student behaviour on campus in disregard of the distance rules and other precautionary measures. After consultation with the faculty heads and student representatives, we as the presidium would like to expressly point out that you can, of course, conduct courses online. This also applies if you had initially planned classroom teaching and now prefer to switch to online teaching or if you would like to switch to online teaching after a short period of attendance. We also expressly recommend such a step, but do not prescribe it. Especially now, when the Federal Government and the federal states have agreed on a reduction of mobility and contacts under the pressure of infection, we should also make our responsible contribution to this. So please feel free to switch to online teaching and help reduce the contact density on campus as much as possible. This applies all the more so if we cannot control the group behaviour of many students on campus between courses. The Executive Board will do everything in its power to provide you with the best possible technical support for digital teaching formats.

Please notify the students of the conversion of your course to online format by a note in the commentary in the course catalogue. You can enter this information yourself. Notification to Department 1: Registrars' Office is not necessary for this. We will inform the students where they can find this up-to-date information.

And please do not forget that it is now a matter of coping with the difficult winter ahead. We can hope that next year will bring relief from a medical point of view, but we must now patiently and wisely master the burden and challenge ahead.

With warmest regards from colleagues,
Walter Bauer-Wabnegg with the presidium

Supplementation:
You will help us and the students considerably if you want to switch your classroom teaching to the online format, also by sending an e-mail to vorlesungsverzeichnis@uni-erfurt.de.

The following information is required for this:

  • name of the lecturer(s),
  • title of the course(s) and
  • the corresponding attendance date(s).

The changes can even be made directly visible in the course catalogue without the students having to open the commentary.

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