Study administration
Focusing on a safe transition
A new frame work for the study administration will strengthen collaboration across faculties as well as secure and maintain the close collaboration between administrative workers and the faculty's educators.
The future study administration will have a clear division between operational and policy tasks. At the same time, the tasks must be organised on just two levels: Faculty Administration and Central Administration.
At NAT, this means that four colleagues from the departments and four from the Science Faculty Secretariat will become part of SDU Education at the turn of the year and thus change organisational reference.
– It's important that we work together to find the best solutions in the new framework, so that with this organisational change we can build on the high quality that we are known for at NAT, while strengthening professionalism across the faculties, says Niels Kring, Head of Secretariat at the faculty.
For him, it is a cardinal point that the faculty's lecturers can continue to expect good and personal support from the administration.
– The colleagues who work with operational tasks will have a presence both at the faculty and in Central Administration. We don't know the exact balance yet, but we are focusing on being able to support the close relationships and close collaboration between educational administration staff and the teaching environments, he says.
However, the transition will take time, and in the first quarter, the affected employees will generally keep their task portfolio and remain in their current offices.
After this, operational and policy tasks will be distributed so that operational tasks will belong to the guidance team in SDU Education and the new department, Planning. Here, a partnership model will ensure that there will be both a high level of shared professionalism centrally and a strong faculty anchoring locally.
– We are now in dialogue with the colleagues who primarily work with operational tasks in the study administration to map the specific tasks and gather knowledge that will be used to make the transition to the new department as smooth as possible, says Niels Kring.
– For the individual, it will be a major upheaval. We need to be very conscious of that. These are skilled and committed employees who perform essential tasks for our lecturers and programmes. Therefore, we naturally want them to land safely and well in the new organisation, he says.
Read more about the reorganisation of SDU's study administration.