Office overview

The university has a multitude of offices, which all have the same names¹, members and do the same thing. To help you get an intuition for the differences between the offices, we created an overview:

The three topics can be seen as very coarse clusters of primary tasks:

• Social: Organizes parties, freshers’ days, game nights, group weekends; individual counseling, personal contacts from the degree in case of problems, …
• Functional: Designing the degree program and its lectures, examination formalities, deciding about lecturers, evaluation, …
• Political: Usage of money or other resources, plans for the future, discussion about topics relevant to all university members (equality, artificial intelligence, research for military purposes, …), conflicts

Don’t take these clusters too seriously, all of them have overlap (how a degree program is designed depends on the money that is available; social problems can come from functional or political events; etc.). If we were to consider that, all offices would stretch over the full width of the illustration, and then it would be pointless.

¹ more precisely: which all have names created by freely combining “university”, “council”, “institute”, “subject” and “student”.