Student general assembly criticizes sharply
round 700 Students at the University of Kassel voted at a general meeting on Wednesday for a ballot on the planned change to the civil clause. In doing so, they want to preserve the original civil clause. This was 2013 decided as a voluntary commitment, according to which research and teaching should only serve civil purposes. A successful ballot would be a sign of this, that the Senate is planning the change against the will of the students.
Beginning of June the Senate published a draft amendment.critic:within warn of loopholes, enable military research.
federal government and States are pushing universities increasingly, to reconsider their civil clauses. According to Senate members, the impulse in Kassel also came from politics.
Am 1. The Senate will vote on the draft in July. The University of Kassel would be the first university, which repeals a self-imposed civil clause.