Quality Management
As a university, it goes without saying that we see ourselves as a learning organization. The continuous improvement of quality in all areas, for the benefit of students and all members of the university, is a fundamental principle of our identity and, at the same time, a prerequisite for the university’s international reach while remaining firmly rooted in the region.
The guiding principle is critical self-reflection and a constant engagement with the concept of excellence, which translates into the efficient use of resources, the analysis of strengths and potential, and the exploration of opportunities for development.
The Quality Management Department (QUM) therefore sees itself as a coordination and development center for excellent teaching and research, and as a catalyst for the continuous optimization of university life and work at all levels.
Handbook for Quality Management (German)
The Coordinator for Equality, Gender, and Diversity is part of QUM and is responsible for the strategic implementation and further development of equality and diversity goals. Her focus is on promoting equal opportunity and inclusion, as well as fostering a diverse, respectful, and creative environment for student life, teaching, and artistic work.
Some of our objectives
- Quality assurance and management, and institutional advancement, across all areas
- Helping the university meet external criteria for quality education, e.g., in re-/accreditation procedures
- Broker between faculty, students, and administration, committees and interest groups, to inspire university-wide progress and institutional advancement
- Encourage diversity and inclusion as the foundation of a university’s plurality of approaches to, and methods in the arts and research
Some of our activities
- Continuous development of tools and processes that assure and develop quality
- Internal quality assurance, e.g., via institute evaluations and questionnaires focusing on student satisfaction
- Documentation of work protocols, and enhancement of organisational performance
- Coordinate the university’s suggestion scheme (Vorschlagswesen)
- Institutional lead for university didactics, Postgraduate Certificate in Higher Education (Performing Arts), and support onboarding and tenure applications inc. higher doctorates, Habilitation
- Investigate charges of academic malpractice in final theses
- Actively offer accommodations and act as institutional coordinator for those different abilities (Beauftragter für Menschen mit Behinderung)
- Executive to the university Quality Team
- Project lead for new university output management system, b-doc
Getting in touch
- qualitybruckneruniat (Quality Management)
- diversitybruckneruniat (Equality, Gender & Diversity)