Minutes from the UL Professors’ Meeting
Wednesday, April 6, 2011
FDEF Grande Salle (Maison rose)
148 av. de la Faïencerie
Present: R. Bisdorff (FSTC, chair), M. Cole (FDEF), A. Cosma (FDEF), R. Ergec
(FDEF), J. Gerkhart (FDEF), M. Happold (FDEF), R. Harmsen ( FLSHASE), D.
Hiez (FDEF), H. Hofmann (FDEF), St. Maas (FSTC), Ch. Max (FLSHASE), Ph.
Poirier (FLSHASE), M. Pauly (FLSHASE), I. Behrmann (FSTC), T. Schilling
(FSTC), Ch. Schommer (FSTC), S. Siebentritt (FSTC), U. Sorger (FSTC), E.
Weydert (FSTC), G. Ziegler (FLHASE)
Excused: F. Anton (FLHASE), St. Braum (FDEF), C. Carlsberg (FSTC), S.
Freyermuth (FLSHASE), M. Malvetti (FSTC), P. Picard (FDEF), P. Ryan (FSTC).
FSTC (8), FDEF(9), FLSHASE(7)
The meeting starts at 17h05
Agenda
1. Approval of the minutes from the last meeting on Wednesday, March 2, 2011
Accepted as they are.
2. Preparation of the founding act of the UL Professors’ Association:
– Membership:
The discussion starts with the possible delimitation of the effective membership for the Association to be founded. Several options appear, from strictly only UL professors to all academics inside and outside of the UL being active in higher education and research. Everybody agrees however on the fact that effective members should have a doctoral degree. Polling the opinions in the room shows the following result: profs. (0), profs + ass.-profs. (4), profs. + ass.-profs + sen.-lecturers (12), all academics in and out of the UL (1). A large majority (12/16) of the attendance hence supports the idea of delimiting the Association’s membership to the (future) legal definition of the academics of the UL, that is: Professors, Associate Professors and Senior Lecturers. To give persons not in this statute nevertheless a possibility to join the future Association of UL Professors, the creation of an associate membership is considered.
– Denomination:
A consensus on the following names appears:
Association of Professors of the University of Luxembourg
Association des Professeurs de l’Université du Luxembourg
Vereinigung der Professoren der Universität Luxemburg
Shortname: APUL
– Keeping the AECS ?
The question is asked whether it is not more interesting to stay with the AECS. A general consensus supports however the idea of heading towards the founding of a new Association, namely the APUL (Polling result: APUL 10, AECS 1, Abstain 7).
3. Election of a Constitutive Committee
Following colleagues agree to be member of the Constitutive Committee in charge of the preparation of the founding act of the APUL: Raymond Bisdorff, Stefan Braum, Mathew Happold, Michel Pauly and Susanne Siebentritt. The assembly accepts this composition by acclamation.
The mandate of the Constitutive Committee consists in drafting out APUL bylaws and preparing the very founding assembly for Wednesday, May 25th 2011. The general invitation should give each interested person the possibility to provide written amendments, the case given, of the proposed APUL bylaws some days in advance of the founding assembly.
4. Organization of the revision task of the UL Law from August 12 2003
The apparent urgency of having to formulate a common UL Professors recommendation with a reasonable chance to be considered in the elaboration of the new UL Law raises a hard operational question. Three texts (see attached files ) with more or less precise recommendations for revising the UL Law are currently on the table.
In chronological order:
– the revision proposition by M. Pauly (March 26) supported by the UL History
Department,
– R. Bisdorff’s revision proposal (April 4) based on the
“Avant-projet de Loi” proposed by the UL authorities from March 29th,
– and, the UL OGBL personnel delegation’s positional text sent to the Minister
on April 6th.
Running indeed a detailed discussion of these texts appears to be very technical and time consuming, difficult to oversee, even more for some participants by the necessity to work in French. Facing this problem, it is proposed to organise rather quickly a next UL Professors’ meeting entirely dedicated to the UL Law revision, namely on Wednesday, April 27th, 16h30. Written comments to be considered in the
discussions will be asked for Wednesday April 20th to let enough time for synthesizing all, at that moment, available material.
The plan for this meeting is to vote on a consensus document (by paragraph). Based on this a letter will be formulated that can be signed by those present at the meeting and will be open for further signatures by any professor at the UL. The letter is then supposed to be sent to the Minister.
5. Next meetings
Wednesday, April 27, 16h30, main point on the agenda: UL Law revision
(deadline for written comments on the UL Law revision: April 20).
Wednesday, May 25, main point on the agenda: founding of the APUL.
6. The problem of the evaluation procedure to go from a CDD to a CDI was briefly
mentioned, however, there was no time to discuss.
The meeting finishs at 19h00
Minutes prepared by R. Bisdorff
Luxembourg, April 7,2011