It is a new man who has sat himself down on the chair in the rector\u2019s office at N\u00f8rregade (where he probably started out by struggling a bit with the height settings).<\/p>\n
You have to take all the welcoming toasts with a grain of salt (and some bubbly, of course), but to judge from the speakers at Ralf Hemmingsen’s farewell reception on Friday, Henrik C. Wegener, who is Rector no. 259, will have a tough act to follow.<\/p>\n
His predecessor led the University of Copenhagen through a period of explosive growth, mergers, a climb up the rankings, a renewal of the building stock, and later \u2013 after the political winds were reversed \u2013 cuts and layoffs. And he is given credit throughout for cherishing and pursuing the university spirit by insisting on the importance of independent research.<\/p>\n
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But the same toasts also identify some of the problems that the new rector will inherit. Student Council member Marie Thomsen mentions in a featured column a strange occurrence. The Ministry for Education\u2019s permanent secretary likened the relationship between her ministry and UCPH as the relationship between Hogwarts and the Ministry of Magic in the Harry Potter series.<\/p>\n
In recent years we have been able to see several signs of the strained relationship between this university and the Ministry.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
“Agnete Gersing believed that Harry Potter was a good example of how the ministry and the study programmes could huddle together as the darkness moves in,” writes Marie Thomsen. Yet she wonders whether the permanent secretary had ever actually read the books. The Ministry in the books is not only used as an image of a failed, inhuman, overregulating bureaucracy. It is also corrupted, infiltrated and finally defeated by Lord Voldemort, who through the Ministry takes control of the university (sorry, Hogwarts) and \u2013 among many festive innovations which also includes the goose step \u2013 introduces torture as a motivating study progress device on the students.<\/p>\n
Political control<\/h2>\n
Whether the sinister connotations of the analogy were intended or not, we have been able to see signs that the relationship between the University and the Ministry has been strained in recent years. UCPH management has on many occasions, including in the University Post, complained about increasingly detailed political regulation. And it does not seem like the political interference will stop.<\/p>\n
S\u00f8ren Pind recently suggested that he as Minister should need to approve external members of the University\u2019s board. His new system will effectively remove staff and students from the appointment process and give the Ministry greater control over the selection of board majorities.<\/p>\n
Another problem is what Ralf Hemmingsen has described as his biggest failure: That UCPH has not acquired a freehold ownership of its buildings, and thereby the financial security and independence from not being forced to rent the space in its buildings at hiked-up prices.<\/p>\n
The struggle\u00a0for the money<\/h2>\n
So the UCPH finances remain heavily dependent on a favorable outcome of the long-awaited reform of the Danish \u2018taximeter\u2019 subsidy system. In the future, government subsidies to universities will not only depend on how many graduates they produce. The question is which other criteria will be used to manage the cash flow.<\/p>\n
Several models have been in
play<\/secret><\/p>\n An employed-after-graduation taximeter<\/strong> has for a long time been the University’s worst nightmare.<\/p>\n
“We are not exactly in love with the employed-after-graduation taximeter, not because of narrow economic self-interest, but because we believe it is the wrong lever to pull. It will hit individual programmes hard,” University of Copenhagen director Jesper Olesen said last year to the University Post.<\/p>\n
On the other hand, the quality taximeter that S\u00f8ren Pind is starting to flash, may be good news for UCPH<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
A regional taximeter<\/strong>, which allocates extra funds to regional programmes, will not be good news for the Copenhagen juggernaut. It is probably in this context that you should see Ralf Hemmingsen\u2019s farewell interview statement to the Berlingske news site that “we must recognize that all eight universities in Denmark do not have the opportunity to join the world elite”.<\/p>\n
On the other hand, the quality taximeter<\/strong> that S\u00f8ren Pind is starting to flash \u2013 also in a recent Forskerforum interview \u2013 may be good news for UCPH.<\/p>\n
Especially because there is no firm definition of what quality is. “At UCPH, we are working on getting a system that actually supports quality,” Jesper Olesen said back in 2016. The question is whether the UCPH quality definition matches the Minister\u2019s plans to measure it. And we know little more than what he has said to Forskerforum:<\/p>\n
“And it should not be rigid, new public management-style measurements. There are several possible instruments, such as by using the accreditation system or the corps of censors, or via a rolling evaluation which includes student assessments of teaching quality combined with study programme outputs or something like this.”<\/p>\n
Henrik Wegener will be sent directly into the struggle to define what kind of quality should be rewarded with taximeter subsidies. And then there is the struggle for freehold of buildings, against political interference and against cuts.\u00a0 Not to mention the internal challenges with researchers who complain of increased administrative burdens and the increasing pressure to obtain external funding, the students who complain about study progress idiocy and lack of feedback, and administrative staff groaning about the savings, mergers and layoffs.<\/p>\n
Welcome to UCPH! You have got your work cut out for you.
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Wegener, who is Rector no. 259, will have a tough act to follow.<\/p>\n<p>His predecessor led the University of Copenhagen through a period of explosive growth, mergers, a climb up the rankings, a renewal of the building stock, and later \u2013 after the political winds were reversed \u2013 cuts and layoffs. And he is given credit throughout for cherishing and pursuing the university spirit by insisting on the importance of independent research.<\/p>\n<p> <\/p>\n"},{"acf_fc_layout":"Embed","url":"<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"da\" dir=\"ltr\">Rektorskifte p\u00e5 <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/kbhuni?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#kbhuni<\/a> er nu en realitet. Nr 258 har overrakt k\u00e5be, rektork\u00e6de(r), n\u00f8gler og en 25 \u00f8res lykkem\u00f8nt til nr 259 <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/HenWeg?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@HenWeg<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/Hl6Kt1B0Fu\">pic.twitter.com\/Hl6Kt1B0Fu<\/a><\/p>— Lykke Friis (@lykkefriis) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/lykkefriis\/status\/836594511543402496?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">February 28, 2017<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>","headline":"","caption":"Lykke Friis tweets the transfer of ceremonial robe and chain to Henrik Wegener"},{"acf_fc_layout":"Content","content":"<h2>Ministry of Magic<\/h2>\n<p>But the same toasts also identify some of the problems that the new rector will inherit. Student Council member Marie Thomsen mentions in a featured column a strange occurrence. The Ministry for Education\u2019s permanent secretary likened the relationship between her ministry and UCPH as the relationship between Hogwarts and the Ministry of Magic in the Harry Potter series.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>In recent years we have been able to see several signs of the strained relationship between this university and the Ministry.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>“Agnete Gersing believed that Harry Potter was a good example of how the ministry and the study programmes could huddle together as the darkness moves in,” writes Marie Thomsen. Yet she wonders whether the permanent secretary had ever actually read the books. The Ministry in the books is not only used as an image of a failed, inhuman, overregulating bureaucracy. It is also corrupted, infiltrated and finally defeated by Lord Voldemort, who through the Ministry takes control of the university (sorry, Hogwarts) and \u2013 among many festive innovations which also includes the goose step \u2013 introduces torture as a motivating study progress device on the students.<\/p>\n<h2>Political control<\/h2>\n<p>Whether the sinister connotations of the analogy were intended or not, we have been able to see signs that the relationship between the University and the Ministry has been strained in recent years. UCPH management has on many occasions, including in the University Post, complained about increasingly detailed political regulation. And it does not seem like the political interference will stop.<\/p>\n<p>S\u00f8ren Pind recently suggested that he as Minister should need to approve external members of the University\u2019s board. His new system will effectively remove staff and students from the appointment process and give the Ministry greater control over the selection of board majorities.<\/p>\n<p>Another problem is what Ralf Hemmingsen has described as his biggest failure: That UCPH has not acquired a freehold ownership of its buildings, and thereby the financial security and independence from not being forced to rent the space in its buildings at hiked-up prices.<\/p>\n<h2>The struggle\u00a0for the money<\/h2>\n<p>So the UCPH finances remain heavily dependent on a favorable outcome of the long-awaited reform of the Danish \u2018taximeter\u2019 subsidy system. In the future, government subsidies to universities will not only depend on how many graduates they produce. The question is which other criteria will be used to manage the cash flow.<\/p>\n<p>Several models have been in <secret text=\"The final proposal is expected to include elements from all of the following models\">play<\/secret><\/p>\n<p>An <strong>employed-after-graduation taximeter<\/strong> has for a long time been the University’s worst nightmare.<\/p>\n<p>“We are not exactly in love with the employed-after-graduation taximeter, not because of narrow economic self-interest, but because we believe it is the wrong lever to pull. It will hit individual programmes hard,” University of Copenhagen director Jesper Olesen said last year to the University Post.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>On the other hand, the quality taximeter that S\u00f8ren Pind is starting to flash, may be good news for UCPH<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>A <strong>regional taximeter<\/strong>, which allocates extra funds to regional programmes, will not be good news for the Copenhagen juggernaut. It is probably in this context that you should see Ralf Hemmingsen\u2019s farewell interview statement to the Berlingske news site that “we must recognize that all eight universities in Denmark do not have the opportunity to join the world elite”.<\/p>\n<p>On the other hand, the <strong>quality taximeter<\/strong> that S\u00f8ren Pind is starting to flash \u2013 also in a recent Forskerforum interview \u2013 may be good news for UCPH.<\/p>\n<p>Especially because there is no firm definition of what quality is. “At UCPH, we are working on getting a system that actually supports quality,” Jesper Olesen said back in 2016. The question is whether the UCPH quality definition matches the Minister\u2019s plans to measure it. And we know little more than what he has said to Forskerforum:<\/p>\n<p>“And it should not be rigid, new public management-style measurements. There are several possible instruments, such as by using the accreditation system or the corps of censors, or via a rolling evaluation which includes student assessments of teaching quality combined with study programme outputs or something like this.”<\/p>\n<p>Henrik Wegener will be sent directly into the struggle to define what kind of quality should be rewarded with taximeter subsidies. And then there is the struggle for freehold of buildings, against political interference and against cuts.\u00a0 Not to mention the internal challenges with researchers who complain of increased administrative burdens and the increasing pressure to obtain external funding, the students who complain about study progress idiocy and lack of feedback, and administrative staff groaning about the savings, mergers and layoffs.<\/p>\n<p>Welcome to UCPH! You have got your work cut out for you.<\/p>\n"},{"acf_fc_layout":"ArticleEnd"},{"acf_fc_layout":"Banner","img":false,"url":""},{"acf_fc_layout":"OtherStories","headline":"","hand_picked_posts":true,"references":[{"reference":{"ID":44670,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2017-02-21 10:10:14","post_date_gmt":"2017-02-21 09:10:14","post_content":"<em>You go to war with the army you have, not the army you might want or wish to have at a later time<\/em>,\u00a0the US Defence Secretary Donald Rumsfeld said back in the time of the George W. Bush presidency.\r\n\r\nRumsfeld's words are relevant for the University of Copenhagen's future rector Henrik C. Wegener. His closest associates in the University's academic leadership are going nowhere right now. Documents released under the Freedom of Information Act show that none of the deans stand for replacement in the first 14 months of Wegener\u2019s rector term \u2013 and several of them have contracts until mid-2019, with one of them until mid-2020.\r\n\r\nSources speaking under condition of anonymity reckon that the current leadership at the University of Copenhagen (UCPH) want a new rector to not have to occupy too many key positions during his first period, also to keep a new boss's urge to make changes in check.\r\n\r\nThe new rector's time at the helm will be influenced by the current dean and prorector team regardless, so let's take a closer look at them.\n<!-- end of module 1 -->\n<h3>The deans<\/h3>\r\nThe six deans of the University of Copenhagen are (along with two prorectors and the university director), the rector's closest lieutenants, and they make decisions of enormous importance for researchers and students. This is why the appointment of deans is one of rector's most important powers.\r\n\r\nThe faculties are \u2013 even though few students and staff think about it every day \u2013 the hub of the UCPH organization. Critics of the one-tier university management system say that the deans have too much power in the university, and that this does not encourage participation.\r\n\r\nHowever, there are vast differences between the faculties, and therefore also between the options that the deans have. Although they all wear the same fine robes on festive occasions, the deans of the faculties of health sciences and science can each dispose over part of the university\u2019s DKK 8bn annual turnover. The dean of the small Faculty of Theology is like a dwarf among giants, with a budget the size of a department.\r\n\r\nThe differences are for historical reasons, but they are also due to society's resources being increasingly devoted to research in Health and Science.\r\n<h3>John Renner Hansen, Faculty of Science, hired until 31st May, 2020<\/h3>\r\nThe [secretimage face=\"Dean of Science\" imageid=\"4870\"] has the largest number of employed scientists (2,160 full-time positions in 2015) and therefore also has the largest opportunity for trouble with professors. In recent times, a good deal of John Renner Hansen\u2019s time has been taken up with the rumpus over the professor of geology Hans Thybo, which the Dean fired in November 2016. The case is not only a dispute between UCPH and Thybo\u2019s union, it has also damaged the University\u2019s reputation \u2013 especially when the world\u2019s leading trade magazine Nature <a href=\"https:\/\/uniavisen.dk\/en\/postdoc-thybo-did-not-put-pressure-on-me\/\">questions<\/a> the UCPH justification for firing Thybo and writes editorials about the Scandinavian university system's crisis of management.\r\n\r\nEmployed from 1st June 2012 \u2013 31st May 2020 (contract extension for three years in 2016).\r\n<div class=\"factbox\">\r\n<p class=\"factbox-header feature-color\">John Renner Hansen<\/p>\r\nJob on his return: Can be a professor at the Niels Bohr Institute after his term as dean.\r\n\r\nSalary: <strong>DKK 99,500<\/strong> a month (2012 level) + pension. (In 2016, this was just over <strong>DKK 1.4 million<\/strong> annually including pension).\r\n\r\nCan work 15 per cent of his time as a researcher or teacher.\r\n\r\nReceives one month's professor's salary in [secrettext face=\"bonus\" text=\"John Renner Hansen has thereby (together with Prorector Thomas Bj\u00f8rnholm) the good fortune of being among the last on a later abolished scheme for UCPH managers, where they both get employment protection (a job after the end of the contract) and a special bonus for accepting the uncertain working conditions which a fixed-term contract usually provides.\"] \u00a0for every year he has been Dean when he stops.\r\n\r\n<\/div>\r\nCritics of Renner point to his management style and claim that he could have avoided problems by being less headstrong. There has been criticism of a hiring of a head of the Department of Biology, and a not entirely successful international recruitment drive for a prestigious plant research center has attracted criticism. But on the other hand, it is difficult to imagine a leader of several thousand scientists being popular with all of them.\r\n\r\nApart from this, Renner\u2019s term as dean has passed with a series of department mergers that have been implemented \u2013 and given up in one case due to massive staff opposition. And he has also run a series of new constructions, both of which were decided by his predecessor.\r\n\r\nJohn Renner Hansen has in the summer of 2016 extended his contract with UCPH until 2020. This was an item of news that did not attract much publicity, even in the Faculty's own newsletters from the period.\r\n<h3>Ulla Wewer, Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences, hired until 30th April, 2019<\/h3>\r\nThe health faculty almost matches the science faculty in budget and number of researchers, even though it has a lower student population. [secretimage face=\"Wewer\" imageid=\"10416\"] has led the Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences since 2006, and should therefore be considered a person of much experience.\r\n<div class=\"factbox\">\r\n<p class=\"factbox-header feature-color\">Ulla Wewer<\/p>\r\nEmployed from 1st May 2014 \u2013 30th April 2019, but can be extended for three years in the job. Wewer was before this, the Dean of the Faculty from 2006 and she applied for the post again.\r\n\r\nJob on her return: Ulla Wewer can become professor again when her term as dean ends. She has a special agreement on one year free of teaching responsibilities, so she can get back into her subject matter again.\r\n\r\nSalary: <strong>DKK 99,500<\/strong> a month + pension (2012 level). In 2016 her annual salary including pension was just over <strong>DKK 1.4 million<\/strong>.\r\n\r\nCan do research or teach 15 per cent of the time.\r\n\r\nGets a personal annuity of DKK 75,000 for this purpose.\r\n\r\n<\/div>\r\nShe is best known as a skilled fundraiser at a time when both society and industry have put a high value on health sciences and technology.\r\n\r\nBy virtue of her good connections, she has helped to secure billions in research funding to UCPH. It may have helped that her own vice-dean Birgitte Nauntofte took over in 2009 the directorship of the Novo Nordisk Foundation, which is one of UCPH\u2019s most generous donors.\r\n\r\nIt is also during Wewer\u2019s term that the Maersk Foundation decided to pay most of the Faculty of Health\u2019s brand new (mini) skyscraper in the N\u00f8rrebro district.\r\nWewer had the bad luck to be Dean when the Penkowa scandal was rolling, and she was not praised for her handling of it, even though this was not as much of a personal issue for her, as it was for Rector, which critics at the time wanted fired.\r\n<h3>Ulf Hedetoft, Faculty of Humanities, hired until 30th April, 2018<\/h3>\r\nHumanities is the University's largest faculty in terms of number of students, but only one-third as large as Science in terms of the number of research positions.\r\n\r\nIt has not been the happiest faculty to lead in recent years. Most of the changes to the research and teaching environment have entailed cuts. Cuts that paradoxically have been carried out while the faculty has moved into big, beautiful new buildings.\r\n<div class=\"factbox\">\r\n<p class=\"factbox-header feature-color\">Ulf Riber Hedetoft<\/p>\r\nEmployed from 1st May 2012 until 30th April 2018, where he will be at a typical retirement age.\r\n\r\nNo information about his job at the end of his term, but he will get a bonus on his termination of one month salary per year of his job as dean.\r\n\r\nSalary: <strong>DKK 99,000<\/strong> a month + pension (2012 level). In 2016 it amounted to \u00a0just over <strong>DKK 1.4 million<\/strong> a year including pension.\r\n\r\nCan do research or teach 20 per cent of the time.\r\n\r\n<\/div>\r\n[secretimage face=\"Hedetoft\" imageid=\"18394\"] has carried out the cuts, layoffs and closures of subjects \u2013 and he has been criticised for failing to get staff buy-in for his decisions to close financially ailing study environments. But at the same time, the dean has outwardly always talked the case of the humanities to politicians and the wider community, and this may have contributed to the humanities in 2017 getting a small stash of cash in the form of the so-called national language commitment funding.\r\n\r\nIn 2016, Ulf Hedetoft extended his position by one year until 30th April 2018.\r\n\r\nBy modern standards, Hedetoft is a strikingly independent type who appears to manage without the upholstery of middle men. This can be seen when he engages in polemical discussions with students and others on the University Post website.\r\n\r\nUlf, who has been called the Big Bad Ulf in Danish, turned up with an agenda that emphasized research and education tasks rather than administration. This initially created frustration among technical and administrative staff, who complained of a rapidly deteriorating working environment. On the other hand, Hedetoft had from the beginning strong support among researchers at Humanities. Since then it has got better with the administrators, and some of the original critics have even praised the Dean.\r\n<h3>Troels \u00d8stergaard S\u00f8rensen, Social Sciences, employed until 30th April 2019<\/h3>\r\n[secretimage face=\"Troels \u00d8stergaard\" imageid=\"4968\"]. The Faculty of Social Sciences is atypical with its only five independent departments. The dean here plays perhaps a more withdrawn administrative role than at, say, Science, where management is seen very clearly from the outside.\r\n<div class=\"factbox\">\r\n<p class=\"factbox-header feature-color\">Troels \u00d8stergaard S\u00f8rensen<\/p>\r\nEmployed from 1st May 2014 \u2013 30th April 2019.\r\n\r\nNo information about a job on return. Gets a bonus of one month's salary per year at the post, when he stops.\r\n\r\nSalary: <strong>DKK 93,000<\/strong> per month + pension (2013 level). (About <strong>DKK 1.3 million<\/strong> annually including pension in 2016).\r\n\r\nCan do research or teach 10 per cent of his time, and gets a personal annuity of DKK 50,000 for it.\r\n\r\n<\/div>\r\nThe social sciences faculty is interesting for the new rector partly because it is the first one that has had an overall assessment of its research quality carried out.\r\n\r\nSoon the other faculties at UCPH will have to put themselves through the same test.\r\n\r\nIt showed that some of the disciplines \u2013 sociology and psychology \u2013 needed to pull their socks up.\r\n<h3>Jacob Graff Nielsen, Faculty of Law, hired 31st March, 2019<\/h3>\r\nThe Faculty of Law is going through a time of change physically. The faculty \u2013 after years of protests by students and employees \u2013 will in 2017 move to Amager to be a part of the South Campus together with the theologians and humanists.\r\n<div class=\"factbox\">\r\n<p class=\"factbox-header feature-color\">Jacob Graff Nielsen<\/p>\r\nEmployed from 1st April, 2014 to 31st March, 2019, but can be extended for three years.\r\n\r\nWill be a professor of tax law after the expiry of his term.\r\n\r\nSalary: <strong>DKK 84,000<\/strong> a month (in 2014) + pension. Annual salary including pension is approximately <strong>DKK 1.2 million<\/strong>. Can research or teach 5 per cent of his time.\r\n\r\n<\/div>\r\nThe [secretimage face=\"Dean\" imageid=\"9479\"] (who has been looking forward to moving to KUA3) has had no responsibility for the decision to move. He must simply maintain the subject's spirit despite leaving the wood-paneled halls that has been its environment since as long as anyone can remember.\r\n\r\nThe problems at the Faculty of Law seem, from the outside, to be a lot about the students' conditions. The students complain nowhere as much as at the Faculty of Law. But part of the staff have also been looking grumpy.\r\n\r\nThe Council for Accreditation is not completely satisfied. A <a href=\"https:\/\/uniavisen.dk\/en\/all-rise-this-court-finds-law-guilty-of-a-study-programme-mess\/\">\u2018mess\u2019<\/a> was the word the University Post used in a major article on the problems at the faculty recently. Jacob Graff Nielsen has more than enough to get going with. But on the other hand our society will probably continue to need plenty of lawyers, and the students are applying to get in.\r\n<h3>Kirsten Busch Nielsen, Theology, hired until 30th June, 2018<\/h3>\r\nDean of the University's smallest \u2013 but the oldest and historically the finest \u2013 faculty was mentioned as a possible outsider candidate for Rector of the University of Copenhagen in 2017 on the basis of her commitment to the University as a whole.\r\n<div class=\"factbox\">\r\n<p class=\"factbox-header feature-color\">Kirsten Busch Nielsen<\/p>\r\nEmployed from 1 July 2013 - 30 June 2018, may be extended for three years.\r\n\r\nTo be professor in dogmatics at the end of her term.\r\n\r\nSalary: <strong>DKK 71,000<\/strong> per month + pension (2012 level). Overall salary including pension is about <strong>DKK 1 million<\/strong>. Can do research for 10 per cent of her time.\r\n\r\n<\/div>\r\nThe most notable case for [secretimage face=\"Busch Nielsen\" imageid=\"44606\"] has been the handling of the current Minister for Environment Esben Lunde Larsen\u2019s possible case of <a href=\"https:\/\/uniavisen.dk\/en\/esben-lunde-larsens-phd-mistakes-were-trivial\/\">plagiarism <\/a>which \u2013 in addition to being an ordinary case concerning research practices \u2013 also raised questions about the requirements for theology students. The questions include whether the University has been too lenient in its approval of credits from faith-based educational institutions that do not follow accepted academic standards. Busch Nielsen handled the case in a cool and undramatic manner. (And the minister escaped with little criticism).\r\n<h3>The prorectors<\/h3>\r\nProrectors [secretimage face=\"Lykke Friis\" imageid=\"23977\"] and [secretimage face=\"Thomas Bj\u00f8rnholm\" imageid=\"19060\"] have their offices next to the rector's on the central N\u00f8rregade address.\r\n<h3>Thomas Bj\u00f8rnholm, Prorector for Research and Innovation, employed until 31st August 2018<\/h3>\r\n<div class=\"factbox\">\r\n<p class=\"factbox-header feature-color\">Thomas Bj\u00f8rnholm<\/p>\r\nContract: 1st September 2010 to 31st August 2018 (had his contract extended by three years in 2015).\r\n\r\nAfter his term: Be a professor of materials chemistry.\r\n\r\nSalary: <strong>DKK 104,500<\/strong> a month (2010 level) + pension and free newspaper. (The total annual salary including pension was just about <strong>DKK 1.5 million<\/strong> in 2016).\r\n\r\nCan do research or teach 10 per cent of his time. He gets a personal annuity of DKK 70,000 for this purpose. For every year he has been prorector, he gets one month\u2019s salary in bonus when he stops (Professor's salary, not prorector\u2019s).\r\n\r\n<\/div>\r\nThomas Bj\u00f8rnholm has \u201cby delegation of the Rector\u201d responsibility for Research and Innovation at the University of Copenhagen, and is expected to be the driving force for internationalization and cooperation with foreign universities, etc.\r\n\r\nThere is no doubt that internationalization has increased significantly while Bj\u00f8rnholm has been employed. According to the UCPH annual report from 2015 (the latest), the proportion of foreign scientists at UCPH has been growing, and the University has also opened a special talent program where talented master\u2019s students are offered a PhD and a so-called tenure track program, where young scientists are helped into a research career. At the end of 2015, 25 had participated in the programme.\r\n\r\nBj\u00f8rnholm has also recently done his part in getting Microsoft to invest an undisclosed (but supposedly enormous) sum in developing a quantum computer together with researchers from UCPH. The collaboration will take place on campus in an unprecedented close co-operation between a business and this university. If it is successful, it could transform the university.\r\n\r\nThe University Post pointed to Bj\u00f8rnholm as the most obvious candidate for the Rector job after Ralf Hemmingsen's term, but this was not how it went (and the University Post does not know whether he was at all interested).\r\n<h3>Lykke Friis, Prorector for Education, employed until 31st July, 2018<\/h3>\r\nLykke Friis has been prorector twice at the University. First time in the period 2006-2009 \u2013 after which she became a politician and Minister for the Liberal government of the period \u2013 and for the second time round from the summer of 2013.\r\n\r\nShe has \u2013 in agreement with rector \u2013 responsibility for developing UCPH\u2019s education programmes, which includes student matters. This means that Lykke Friis has been the person in management who has had to introduce successive governments\u2019 detailed plans for the university world, including the Study Progress Reform.\r\n\r\nShe has managed to do this without appearing to be too much of a villain among the student populace.\r\n<div class=\"factbox\">\r\n<p class=\"factbox-header feature-color\">Lykke Friis<\/p>\r\nContract: 1st August 2013 \u2013 31st July 2018. Option to extend for a further three years. No job to return to.\r\n\r\nSalary: <strong>DKK 110,184<\/strong> a month (2012 level) + pension and free newspaper. (The total annual salary with pension was slightly below <strong>DKK 1.6 million<\/strong> in 2016).\r\n\r\nCan do research or teach for 10 per cent of the time. Gets a personal annuity of DKK 70,000 for this purpose. For every year she has been prorector, she gets an extra month's salary in bonus, when she stops. This does not apply however, if she herself resigns.\r\n\r\n<\/div>\r\nFriis, who is the University's most [secrettext face=\"well-known boss\" text=\"not least due to her commitment to EU policies, which she is her research expertise\"] \u00a0is also responsible for the university's central communications department and is a regular author of featured comments in the Berlingske newspaper, often about education policy. In recent years, the University has been relatively widely reported in the international media \u2013 and has actually surpassed other Nordic countries\u2019 universities on this point.\n<!-- end of module 2 -->\n","post_title":"Here is your team, Wegener. Hope you like it","post_excerpt":"As new rector, Henrik Wegener takes over prorectors and deans that he can\u2019t, immediately, remove from his team. We've taken a look at the salaries of the University of Copenhagen\u2019s top executives and written a small progress report on each of them.","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","post_password":"","post_name":"here-is-your-team-wegener-hope-you-like-it","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2017-02-21 13:16:07","post_modified_gmt":"2017-02-21 12:16:07","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/uniavisen.dk\/dit-hold-wegener-haaber-du-kan-lide\/","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"}},{"reference":{"ID":44445,"post_author":"5","post_date":"2017-02-14 11:31:27","post_date_gmt":"2017-02-14 10:31:27","post_content":"<span class=\"dropcap\">T<\/span>he door to the Rector\u2019s office is open, and we can go straight in - where is he? There he comes to meet the University Post, a little hesitant, a little reticent as he welcomes you with his distinctive vocal fry on a low-key voice. The eyelids are heavy, but under their blinds, a set of lively, warm brown eyes play.\r\n\r\nRalf Hemmingsen has laid the table with Royal Copenhagen coffee cups. We sit down at one end of a large conference table, the mahogany so well-polished that it reflects his torso with light blue shirt and dark jacket. In his inside pocket he has his stock of nicotine gum.\r\n<h2>Law of horrors to be implemented<\/h2>\r\nWe begin in the autumn of 2005. A time of upheaval in the old university, where Ralf Hemmingsen is Dean of the Faculty of Health Sciences. The Danish centre-right government led by Fogh Rasmussen had in 2003 pushed through new university legislation and the entire academic community is responding as if with a scream.\r\n\r\nThe law overthrows the previous internal democracy, where university staff and students choose their own leaders. Now, professional boards are to replace the employee-democracy because the politicians want to strengthen the relationship between universities and business.\r\n<blockquote>Basically I am pretty introverted. Reflective. I like the peace and quiet<\/blockquote>\r\nThe sense of apocalypse reaches its peak in the basic research communities as universities\u2019 minister Helge Sander declares that university and business are to bond together, and formulates his dogma that the path \u2018from research to invoice' must be shortened. Ralf Hemmingsen participates as dean in the chorus of criticism:\r\n\r\n\u00bbThere was a sense of fear throughout the university. Where would it all end with this reforms\u2019 short-termist business-style thinking? Will universities become a kind of development unit for industry?\u00ab he says. Ralf Hemmingsen himself helped to formulate a critical consultation response to the politicians.\r\n\r\nConsultation or not, the universities got their boards, and the University of Copenhagen\u2019s (UCPH) Board is brand new and had the former central bank director Bodil Nyboe Andersen at the table, when it in the autumn of 2005 decided who to hire as rector.\r\n\r\nHemmingsen remembers that he emphasised at the interview that rector should be the guarantor of academic culture and the whole ethos of the university. A kind of anchor for basic research.\r\n\r\n\u00bbIt was clear from the political context \u2013 also in the law \u2013 that they wanted a more outward-looking university, and they focused their attention on whether the new structure would lead to a fundamental change in the role of the university.\u00ab\r\n\r\nWhen he takes stock of 11 years of ups and downs, Ralf Hemmingsen says today that the widespread fear that the world of business would shove itself in and dictate the terms of basic research has since proven to be unfounded.\r\n\r\n\u00bbAt present, major industrial companies are some of our strongest supporters, as they maintain towards the politicians that deep insight into subjects, combined with a willingness to interact with them, is the essential thing. We could not have known this at the time.\u00ab\r\n\r\nIt was not the business sector that Ralf Hemmingsen would sweat over in the last period of his 11 years as Rector of the university.\r\n<h2>Elected glory<\/h2>\r\n<em>Did you think that you, as the first hired rector, would lack the natural legitimacy that staff-elected rectors had?<\/em>\r\n\r\n\u00bbYes, I did. But I had, after all, been elected as dean for three and a half years. I had, therefore, maybe brought enough legitimacy with me,\u00ab says Ralf Hemmingsen, \u00bbbecause I had tried to run a real campaign. There were three candidates, election meetings, the whole machinery, so it was as if I had been tested in the large group which is the Faculty of Health Sciences.\u00ab\r\n<div class=\"factbox\">\r\n<p class=\"factbox-header feature-color\">RALF HEMMINGSENS CV<\/p>\r\n<strong>Personal<\/strong>\r\n\r\nBorn 12th October 1949\r\n\r\nMarried to his third wife, Sidse Hemmingsen Arnfred\r\n\r\n<strong>Degrees and awards<\/strong>\r\n\r\n1983 Specialist in Psychiatry\r\n\r\n1981 Dr.med. University of Copenhagen\r\n\r\n1981 Permission to independently practice medicine\r\n\r\n1976 Gold Medal, University of Copenhagen\r\n\r\n1975 Cand.med. University of Copenhagen\r\n\r\n \r\n\r\n<strong>Employment<\/strong>\r\n\r\n1995 Professor of Psychiatry, University of Copenhagen\r\n\r\n2005-2017 Rector of the University of Copenhagen (since 1\/11 2005)\r\n\r\n2002-2005 Dean of the Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Copenhagen\r\n\r\n1986-2002 Chief Physician, Department of Psychiatry, Bispebjerg Hospital\r\n\r\n1986 Consultant Physician, Frederiksberg Hospital\r\n\r\n1984-95 and 1978-80 Clinical Associate Professor of Psychiatry, University of Copenhagen\r\n\r\n1975-1986 Research and clinical training as specialist in psychiatry\r\n\r\n \r\n\r\n<strong>Scientific publications<\/strong>\r\n\r\nHas published 161 scientific papers, of which 142 are indexed in Medline, in the period 1975-2007\r\n\r\n<img class=\"alignnone size-narrow wp-image-44075\" src=\"https:\/\/uniavisen.dk\/content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/ralfhemmingsen1web-700x1050.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/>\r\n\r\n<\/div>\r\nWhen the rector, deans, and heads of department, are employed today, they do not have the university\u2019s popular majority behind them to back up their work. And this is a challenge, says Ralf Hemmingsen:\r\n\r\n\u00bbToday, when there is no glory from being elected, it is a big challenge - and it is an ongoing process to ensure this legitimacy.\u00ab\r\n<h2>The rector\u2019s sherry<\/h2>\r\nOn 1st March, Henrik C. Wegener is to move in and establish the necessary legitimacy as head of the university's 50,000 argumentative staff and students.\r\n\r\nBut firstly he shall furnish the office in the historical surroundings of Frue Plads.\r\n\r\nThe interior is classic, good taste: Golden frames, tile yellow walls, dark style furniture and Danish cultural radicalism-epoch light fixtures. Four oval rector portraits have hung here since Rector Kjeld M\u00f8llgaards time in office (1994-2002). On the wall, behind the desk, hangs an expressive work and draws attention to itself with electric blue cubism. About the abstract Richard Mortensen-work, Ralf Hemmingsen says:\r\n<blockquote>When the dark men claim that mass universities have led to a more ignorant body of students, I disagree<\/blockquote>\r\n\u00bbIt was one that Linda (Nielsen, rector 2002-05,) had hung up. It was a bit too violent for me, so I moved it back behind my working desk. And the two there, a little more quiet, I borrowed them from the Carlsberg Foundation,\u00ab he says nodding toward two pretty nature paintings with the colours of the coast..\r\n\r\n\u00bbAnd in here,\u00ab says Ralf Hemmingsen and opens the door to a tall, slim cabinet,\u00ab Mogens Fogh (Rector 1966-1972) had his bottles and cigars. It was from here that student rebels took his tobacco and sherry when they occupied his office. They sat out here in the hallway and emptied the rector bottles and smoked the big cigars.\" \u00ab\r\n\r\nOn top of the cabinet are small gift souvenirs, which Ralf Hemmingsen has received while traveling. He lifts up a finely carved small cedar box and turns it in his hands:\r\n\r\n\u00bb\"They like these in China, they use them for their business cards,\u00ab he says, and suggests with a smile that he does not have the habit of sharing gilt-edged business cards from a small wooden box.\r\n<h2>The clean-up work<\/h2>\r\nThe other offices are occupied by the prorectors, which during Ralf Hemmingsen\u2019s time have grown from one to two positions. The entire administration on Frue Plads has been overhauled.\r\n\r\n\u00bbWhen I took office, the administration was spread around a lot of small offices, and there was an expectation that there should be a clarification of the administration's purpose and direction. The university director at the time had 17 personal references or something like that,\u00ab says Ralf Hemmingsen and raises an eyebrow.\r\n\r\nMost urgent was the need for professional and transparent management, for this did not exist, he says.\r\n\r\n\u00bbIn the old model, where someone was elected, they mainly made decisions on who should be made professor, and then there was some distribution in terms of resources between the departments, but there was no actual professional management of the entire staff.\u00ab\r\n\r\nThe university had no HR department. There was a personnel office that took care of legalities, but there was no development activity, so Ralf Hemmingsen took a hold of things there too:\r\n\r\n\u00bbIn my first years, there were many, probably especially among the technical and administrative staff, who wanted proper management. Introduction, hiring, coaching, crisis management \u2013 that managers themselves develop and accept feedback, this did not exist. It is important to act fairly transparent and professionally towards the overall staff. And this is a benefit of the new model. It is easier, because the expectation is there.\u00ab\r\n<h2>All the news from parliament is bad news<\/h2>\r\nAnother expectation was that politicians, after having given the universities their professional boards, would give them more responsibility. As this was the explicit intention of the 2003 law, to regulate less from the central administration.\r\n\r\n\u00bbThis has in no way happened, quite the opposite,\u00ab says Ralf Hemmingsen and takes a deep breath before answering my question about management's relationship with politicians:\r\n\r\n\u00bbAllow me a short two to three minutes lecture on this point.\u00ab\r\n\r\n\u00bbThe bureaucracy has just grown. There are development contracts, audits, supervision from the minister, the national audit office and of course the entire financial regulation. In addition there is the buildings management, located in a different ministry, but also huge. There are layers upon layers of command and control mechanisms, and within each of them details, details and more details are effectuated.\u00ab\r\n\r\n \n<!-- end of module 1 -->\nAnyone who has been affiliated to the University of Copenhagen has in recent years learned how to say study progress reform, dimensioning, reprioritisation contributions, and even more management speak as a result of politicians' interventions.\r\n<blockquote>It was a sad case, and it dragged down this university for a period of time, but I'm not angry or mad at anyone\r\n\r\nRalf Hemmingsen on the Penkowa scandal<\/blockquote>\r\n\u00bbThe detailed regulation of education programmes is complete, and yet politicians complain anyway that too many new programmes are being set up. They have not had the political courage to curb this trend, and now they say that it is the boards that have been irresponsible. This is all very good, but I heard from the minister up until three years ago, that we need to admit an additional 500 students a few months before deadline, when the supply of courses had already been decided,\u00ab says Ralf Hemmingsen.\r\n\r\nIf you expect in turn that the fervour of political regulation is due to a strong vision for education and research, you should think again, according to rector number 258, whose tone now turns even darker:\r\n\r\n\u00bbAt the moment there is no long-term political strategy for research development in Denmark, and I regard this as one of the major policy issues. If we as a country with few other raw materials than brains are to do well, Denmark has to re-establish thinking in terms of research strategy. Globalisation means that the permeability of smart people in and out of the country has increased quite dramatically.\u00ab\r\n\r\nFormer minister Helge Sander has not completely earned his bad reputation, according to Ralf Hemmingsen, as he actually gave research and innovation environments the opportunity to make long-term strategies with solid funding from what was then the globalization pool:\r\n\r\n\u00bbThere was a sphere of action for positive development. As a politician, Sander brought the universities DKK 10-14 billion, and the huge investment made it possible for UCPH to lift itself up.\u00ab\r\n\r\nIn recent years, management has had to find two percent savings cuts every year and on top of this the national budget for 2016 dealt a severe financial blow to universities, with a round of layoffs in the spring of 2016 as a sad consequence.\r\n\r\n\u00bbGlobalization money has pushed us upwards. We are still floating in this hot air balloon, but we are mostly just being held up by the remaining fumes. If we don\u2019t get any new flame from the burner, we will descend down into the treetops.\u00ab\r\n<h2>The rector\u2019s nicotine<\/h2>\r\nThe lecture about the politicians' lack of vision is over. Ralf Hemmingsen retrieves a new piece of nicotine gum from his inside pocket. This happens several times per hour. A discreet manoeuvre which I only notice because I share his vice and love the sound of the little white piece that breaks the foil with a click. When asked about the effects of nicotine, he replies:\r\n\r\n\u00bbNicotine has a stimulating effect. You become a little more ... on. The dependency ratio is on par with heroin. Before I chewed gum I smoked cigars, cigarillos and pipe, so I've never tried to be without nicotine,\u00ab\u00a0says Ralf Hemmingsen and sends out three small puffs of air through his nose in a giggle.\r\n\r\nWhen you are rector you have to be able to step forward and take centre stage. But it is the reticent role as a reflective and analytical strategist that suits Ralf Hemmingsen the best. The extroverted activities and the networking he often leaves to Prorector Lykke Friis, who shines in her public role.\r\n\r\nHe describes himself as an introvert.\r\n\r\n\u00bbBasically I'm pretty introverted. Reflective. I like peace and quiet. Not that I have any social anxiety. I can turn it up, and speak at gatherings and assemblies \u2013 and I can lead them too if I have to \u2013 but I prefer it when there are not too many people at a time.\u00ab\r\n<h2>Penkowa \u2013 doesn\u2019t push up his heart rate<\/h2>\r\nRalf Hemmingsen was forced to argue his case to the public, when the largest research scandal in Denmark hit UCPH halfway into his rector term at the turn of 2010\/11. Many of its threads led back to him, who was dean of the faculty that quite unusually let Penkowa re-submit a revised doctoral thesis, then hired her in a temporary professor vacancy, and ended up providing her with a prestigious elite research prize.\r\n<blockquote>\u00bbIt's the Danish property agency that is the developer. They make the decisions, and we do the paying - and now the overruns are out of control\u00ab<\/blockquote>\r\nThrough the journalistic intervention of the Danish Weekendavisen newspaper Milena Penkowa\u2019s document forgery and scientific malpractice became known to a wide public, and on the inside, many professors called for Ralf Hemmingsen's departure. No other individual person has got their own tab on the university website. But the Board stood by him, and Ralf Hemmingsen rode out the storm. Today he regrets that he recommended her for the elite research prize (which was later retracted from her), as he knew very well that a foundation had notified the police of her abuse and document forgery.\r\n\r\n\u00bbIt was a misconception that we recommended her. We had discussions here with the legal apparatus, and the overall evaluation was that when there was no decision ascertaining her guilt, then we should not let it influence the decision. The government\u2019s legal adviser wrote in his large report that we could very well have waited, because the whole case was too messy. It was perhaps our own naivety.\u00ab\r\n\r\n<em>So when I say Penkowa to you today, you say?<\/em>\r\n\r\n\u00bbIt's not that I get heart palpitations over the case. I think it has been a very sad case. In many ways, Penkowa was a promising person. The review of all her many articles showed that there have been falsifications, and some have been criticized for scientific misconduct, but there were also many that the international commission could not find anything on. In this sense, it is tragic that a potentially skilled researcher has been embroiled in so many falsehoods, that it got the whole thing to come crashing down and also hurt this university.\u00ab\r\n\r\n<em>She has had an article published in a scientific journal recently, what do you think about that?<\/em>\r\n\r\n\u00bbI have no comment to make. I think it was a sad case, and it hurt this university a lot during this period of time, but I'm not angry or mad at anyone. It was a heavy case we had to go through. I have no comment on what Penkowa is doing now that she is no longer here.\u00ab\r\n<h2>The big, black, blot<\/h2>\r\nIn these weeks, there are different and more cheerful events to talk about. In KUA3, lawyers, theologians and the Information Science Academy is packing out its boxes. The lower level class rooms and the upper floors of the Maersk Tower are open and have given the first flattered guests a look over the Copenhagen skyline. And in N\u00f8rrebro, the Faculty of Science's new building is slowly rising up.\r\n\r\nThe University of Copenhagen has had no new buildings since the seventies, but during Ralf Hemmingsen period as Rector, the cranes danced for UCPH. About the building boom, he says:\r\n\r\n\u00bbOf course you can make brilliant inventions in old buildings, but when you have a commitment to a large number of students and want to attract talented employees, there must be a progression. If we had to wait 10-15 years, we would be working with something completely outdated.\u00ab\r\n\r\nThe new construction looks undeniably like physical testimony to prosperity and progress in the university area. But backstage the buildings have become Ralf Hemmingsen's biggest regret, as in his desk drawer there is a rejection letter:\r\n<blockquote>\u00bbI have no idea whether the officials are managing this rationally, I'm just saying that this is a sick incentive structure\u00ab<\/blockquote>\r\n\u00bbIt is for me a big, black blot that we failed to get freehold ownership to our buildings. It has been completely ridiculous at times. It is the university that has the need that we describe, but it's the Danish property agency, that is the developer. They make the decisions, and we do the paying - and now the overruns are out of control,\u00ab he says, taking a new chewing gum:\r\n\r\n\u00bbIt's a very strange incentive structure in the public sector. If you were malicious, you would say that there is, at the structural level, an incentive to make the projects as expensive as possible because the Property Agency has to provide a profit to the Treasury. I have no idea whether the officials are managing rationally, I'm just saying this is a sick incentive structure.\u00ab\r\n\r\nIn 2015, the university handed in a thorough and excellent proposal for UCPH to pay a higher percentage themselves to own their own buildings than what DTU the Technical University of Denmark pays, says Ralf Hemmingsen:\r\n\r\n\u00bbWe never got to a debate on the freehold. It was just announced that the government based on the overall interests of society felt that this was not appropriate.\u00ab\r\n\r\nHe did not get hold of the keys, and this was a fiasco, says the outgoing Rector, not just personally, but for both the university and society:\r\n\r\n\u00bb\"It is a big issue. It is a structural problem. It is illogicality. It costs taxpayers money, and it annoys me. There is a task in creating trust between the universities and the ministry, so the freehold would be have been natural for a closer alliance. This task is now still waiting.\u00ab\n<!-- end of module 2 -->\n<h2>Back to the lectern<\/h2>\r\nWhen Ralf Hemmingsen's successor, Henrik C. Wegener, is to go out and try and fix this and his future tasks, Hemmingsen will not be going home to read books by Georges Simenon and travel away all the family\u2019s savings, even though he would enjoy both. He is to return to his professorship and teach master\u2019s students in psychopathology, the doctrine of psychological symptoms at the school of medicine, and his preparations begin now.\r\n\r\n<em>Are you looking forward to going back teaching?<\/em>\r\n\r\n\u00bbOne of my old head physicians at the municipal hospital once said, when I had started talking about things as if I was teaching them: 'I can hear you're the son of a teacher' (said with a drawl). So yes, I have the pedagogical, didactic nature about me from my childhood. And I am really looking forward to it.\u00ab\r\n\r\nAnd he is son of a teacher. Ralf Hemmingsen's father was an assistant professor in biology, geography and chemistry at the Eftersl\u00e6gtselskabets Gymnasium and for 25 years rector at Roskilde Gymnasium.\r\n\r\n\u00bbMy father was not highly academic, but he had done research in his youth and had travelled for his academic subject and things like that. I went with him to the school and saw the labs, so I had a sense of what the academic environment was.\u00ab\r\n<h2>Garden of childhood<\/h2>\r\nRalf Hemmingsen's description of his childhood is happy:\r\n\r\n\u00bbWe lived on the Br\u00f8nsh\u00f8j church hill, and this was good for both roller skates and go carts. We had the gardens, the hideouts, the treehouses and the climbing ropes. And even though the mothers were homemakers, they were not overprotective of us in the gardens, constantly seeing what we were doing.\u00ab\r\n\r\nRalf Hemmingsen says the environment was \"a suburban neighborhood with a lot of life around the mental activities.\" His companions were the sons and daughters of tenants from North Zealand farms, and the particular spirit they brought with them was formative of character, he believes:\r\n<blockquote>\u201cGlobalization money has pushed us upwards. We are still floating in this hot air balloon, but we are mostly just being held up by the remaining fumes.\u201d<\/blockquote>\r\n\u00bb\"I got a very strong sense of the Grundtvigian folk high school environment with get-togethers, songs and pianos playing. The Grundtvigian countryside came to mean a lot to me. It gave me a chance to pack in a wide variety of influences through my first 15 years.\u00ab\r\n\r\nRalf Hemmingsen is a talking head, but as we approach the most personal matters, he finds the first way out.\r\n\r\nWhen I ask him what kind of a father he himself is, his discomfort moves all the way out into his right hand, and it lands heavily on the table between the sentences as if he is swatting down the questions that go to close.\r\n\r\n\u00bbYou\u2019d have to ask them, but I don\u2019t think we should go that far. I see them often, also those that do not live at home. I have ... I think I have a very close relationship with them, and we have a family tradition of travelling together.\u00ab\r\n\r\nHis parents divorced when he was ten, but two things helped him through, he believes: The folk high school-like community in the Br\u00f8nsh\u00f8j environment where he stayed with his mother, and the trips that his father, who had started a new family with three children, took him on:\r\n\r\n\u00bbMy father introduced me to travelling through Europe. That's what he stood for that has meant the most to me existentially. He was a bit of a restless soul, and he liked some action. \u00ab\r\n\r\nRalf Hemmingsen has been to Paris 45 times.\r\n<h2>Humanist or doctor<\/h2>\r\nThe high school years planted an interest in the humanities subjects with Hemmingsen, who was interested in both language and history and who also inherited his mother's great interest in music. But he also wanted to be a doctor, as he could then work on the human brain. So what to choose?\r\n\r\n\u00bb\"I wavered until the last hour between history and medicine. And I cannot explain my choice. Had the deadline been three hours earlier, it would have been history.\u00ab\r\n\r\nThere were no doctors in the family, so the student Hemmingsen was 'tense' about whether he would be able to cope with the harsh studies that began in 1968:\r\n\r\n\u00bbIt was considered difficult, and it is. In particular at the beginning. We were 800 in the year group. After the first year there was a stop test with 5 to 6 examinations, where 70 per cent failed, so I was definitely nervous. For months I said, 'I cannot talk to anyone until after 19th June.\u00ab\r\n\r\nBut Ralf Hemmingsen passed. He got his master\u2019s \u2018cand.med.\u2019 degree in 1975, dr.med. in 1981 and since then he became a specialist in psychiatry. In 1995 he was made professor of psychiatry at the University of Copenhagen, and the rest is history.\r\n<h2>Take it easy, students<\/h2>\r\nIt is an analytically strong and well-educated generation of bright young people that is waiting in the classroom, according to the teacher\u2019s son Hemmingsen. He predicts that their knowledge of the world is enormous, not least because of the digital media, and that what he would like to teach them is to \u2026 stop:\r\n<blockquote>Currently, the major industrial companies are our strongest supporters<\/blockquote>\r\n\u00bbThe basic mental structure \u2013 and the things that can be disturbed \u2013 they do not change at the same rate as the electronic media. And there may be a task in communicating this to the students: Take it easy. You have to concentrate a little to be able to learn to use phenomenology, the ability to through conversation \u2013 and the information on how people behave \u2013 to get an overall picture of the other person to find out how best to help them. And it is almost a generic, fundamental psychological function to be able to do it.\u00ab\r\n\r\nRalf Hemmingsen feels confident about developments within the student segment, he says:\r\n\r\n\u00bbWhen the dark men claim that mass universities have led to a more ignorant body of students, I disagree. Today, the best are even better than they were 30 years ago. The largest group is neither worse nor better than it was then. It may well be that 5 to 10 percent would not have slipped through in the past and this, then, has its challenges. But the overall picture is strong.\u00ab\r\n\r\n<em>It sounds like, when we except the big black blot, that it has been the best job in the world to be Rector of the University of Copenhagen?<\/em>\r\n\r\n\u00bbYes, I would say that. As a teenager, I remember that in my na\u00efve admiration for authority, that bishop, national police commissioner and Rector stood out as the three most attractive and prestigious titles. It has been a pleasure and a privilege to be Rector of this university, and if a fairy gave me a choice between the three - or for that matter the defence chief, or pope - I would choose the Rector position again.\u00ab\r\n\r\nBut then he would also insist on having the keys to the buildings.\n<!-- end of module 3 -->\n","post_title":"The keys, please","post_excerpt":"Ralf Hemmingsen takes stock of 11 years of ups and downs as Rector of the University of Copenhagen. One thing still bugs him. It's not Penkowa. 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