“We have reduced our operations to a minimum, as have the other universities in Saxony,” said Rector Professor Beate Schücking today during a meeting of the offices of the Deans and later in the Senate meeting. “So the University is not closed and the summer semester will still take place.” The Senate today unanimously decided to support the agreement also reached between the State Rectors’ Conference (LRK) and the Ministry of Science: the lecture period will begin as planned on 6 April, with face-to-face teaching commencing on 4 May at the earliest. The Senate resolution sates: “From 6 April until 3 May 2020, teaching will be carried out using digital teaching formats.”
“We will make sure that the current situation results in as few disadvantages as possible for our students,” said the Rector. She added that the crisis management team would continue to meet, and that from now on it would do so virtually in order to prevent infections and that, in light of current developments, it would discuss “the crash barriers of University operations”. “In this context, the faculties will each implement their own at times specific measures, always with the aim of achieving the best possible prevention while maintaining basic functions. That is what we discussed today, and it couldn’t be any different given the diversity of our faculties.”