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It is election time at the University of Copenhagen – and this includes elections to the PhD committees. If you are PhD student, you can take part in the election. But who, and what, can you vote for?
It sounds fancy — the Academic Council — and it is. This is where students and staff meet up with, and give advice to, the dean. The dean then (hopefully) makes good decisions about the future course of the faculty.
It is time for elections at the university – and this includes elections to the study boards. Students are up for election this year, and perhaps there will be contested elections at your department.
It decides what the rector does, and how the money is spent. The Board is the most powerful governing body of the university, and you can help decide who should have a seat in it.
Management at the Faculty of Science will now keep a 100-year-old mural by Danish cartoonist and humorist Storm P. covered up after more than 100 critical emails. According to students, the motif is racist and should not be in a Friday bar. After initially rejecting the complaints, the faculty director now supports covering the mural.
You want to be a good university citizen. And you want to exercise your democratic right to vote. Here is a guide to the University of Copenhagen's elections.
