
{"id":78063,"date":"2018-11-21T09:20:26","date_gmt":"2018-11-21T08:20:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/uniavisen.dk\/ku-valget-2018-her-er-der-kampvalg\/"},"modified":"2018-11-21T10:27:41","modified_gmt":"2018-11-21T09:27:41","slug":"ucph-elections-2018-here-are-the-contested-elections","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/uniavisen.dk\/en\/ucph-elections-2018-here-are-the-contested-elections\/","title":{"rendered":"UCPH elections 2018: Here are the contested elections"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The UCPH election is a complex matter. In fact, the election consists of 85 separate sub-elections: The students vote for the Board (1 election), students and staff vote for <secret text=\"All six faculties have one\">academic councils<\/secret>(12 elections) and their boards of studies (probably 60 elections), and the PhD students vote for the PhD committees (6).<\/p>\n<p>However, not all elections are decided by a ballot. The reason is that <secret text=\"Some places, no candidates are running for the seat. In this case the election is void also.\">in several elections, the exact number of candidates are running for the seats.<\/secret> Then there will be an uncontested election, and the ballot is cancelled.<\/p>\n<p>Now the candidate list for 2018 is ready \u2013 and thereby an overview of where there are contested elections, and where you as a student or staff member can be sure you have to vote.<\/p>\n<h2>Here is the list of contested elections<\/h2>\n<p>As usual, students will be competing for one of the seats on the Board. This means that<strong> all students can vote<\/strong>. There will be four election lists on the ballot: One from Frit Forum, one from Konservative Studerende and two from the Student Council (who have never lost an election to the Board at UCPH).<\/p>\n<p>In addition, both students and staff have contested elections at a number of academic councils and boards of studies.<\/p>\n<p>Here is the list:<\/p>\n<h3>Academic staff (VIP)<\/h3>\n<p>The Academic Council of Humanities (English, Germanic and Romance studies)<br \/>\nThe Academic Council Health Sciences (Pharmacist)<br \/>\nThe Academic Council Health Sciences (Basic subjects)<br \/>\nThe Board of Studies for the Saxo Institute (Ethnology)<br \/>\nThe Board of Studies for the bachelor programme in Law<br \/>\nThe Board of Studies for Food, Human Nutrition and Sport (Department of Food and Resource Economics)<br \/>\nThe Board of Studies for Medicine and the health science master&#8217;s degree (Department of Clinical Medicine)<\/p>\n<h3>Technical-administrative staff (TAP)<\/h3>\n<p>Academic Council, Humanities<br \/>\nAcademic Council Natural Sciences<\/p>\n<h3>Students<\/h3>\n<p>The Board of the University<br \/>\nAcademic Council Humanities<br \/>\nAcademic Council Law<br \/>\nAcademic Council Social Science<br \/>\nThe Board of Studies MEF (Rhetoric)<br \/>\nThe Board of Studies for the bachelor programme in Law<br \/>\nThe Board of Studies for the Master\u2019s in Law and Part-time Programmes<br \/>\nThe Board of Studies for Global Development<br \/>\nThe Board of Studies for Psychology<br \/>\nThe Board of Studies for Political Science<br \/>\nThe Board of Studies for Dentistry<br \/>\nThe Board of Studies for Economics<\/p>\n<h3>PhD students<\/h3>\n<p>PhD Committee Health (Pharmacist)<\/p>\n<h2>How to vote<\/h2>\n<p>The vote for the UCPH elections takes place electronically on the <a href=\"https:\/\/kunet.ku.dk\/about-ucph\/election\/current-election\/Pages\/default.aspx\"><strong>election site on KUnet<\/strong><\/a> from 26th November at to 30th November at 15.00<\/p>\n<p>If your vote is uncontested, and you don\u2019t have to vote, you will find out when you log in to vote.<\/p>\n<h2>But wait. Who is actually running in my UCPH election?<\/h2>\n<p>If you want actual names, you need a bit of patience. UCPH has uploaded a <a href=\"https:\/\/kunet.ku.dk\/om-ku\/valg\/Documents\/Kandidatliste.pdf\">178-page pdf file<\/a> with all the candidates for all elections \u2013 including those selected by an uncontested election \u2013 and writes: &#8220;Use the search function Ctrl + F to find the relevant electoral bodies and candidates\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>We at the University Post cover the election in a number of articles up to (and during) the election 26th-30th November \u2013 including interviews with leading candidates for the Board election.<\/p>\n<h2>Contributions are welcome<\/h2>\n<p>You can post featured comments for the election debate to uni-avis@adm.ku.dk.<br \/>\n<!-- end of module 1 --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The lists of candidates for this year&#8217;s UCPH election are ready. 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There will be a contest for the students' seats on the Board \u2013 and also for staff and student seats in several academic councils and boards of studies. Here is an overview where you can see whether you need to vote when the election starts on 26th November.","use_post_excerpt":false},{"acf_fc_layout":"Byline","is_author":true,"contributors":false},{"acf_fc_layout":"Content","content":"<p>The UCPH election is a complex matter. In fact, the election consists of 85 separate sub-elections: The students vote for the Board (1 election), students and staff vote for <secret text=\"All six faculties have one\">academic councils<\/secret>(12 elections) and their boards of studies (probably 60 elections), and the PhD students vote for the PhD committees (6).<\/p>\n<p>However, not all elections are decided by a ballot. The reason is that <secret text=\"Some places, no candidates are running for the seat. In this case the election is void also.\">in several elections, the exact number of candidates are running for the seats.<\/secret> Then there will be an uncontested election, and the ballot is cancelled.<\/p>\n<p>Now the candidate list for 2018 is ready \u2013 and thereby an overview of where there are contested elections, and where you as a student or staff member can be sure you have to vote.<\/p>\n<h2>Here is the list of contested elections<\/h2>\n<p>As usual, students will be competing for one of the seats on the Board. This means that<strong> all students can vote<\/strong>. There will be four election lists on the ballot: One from Frit Forum, one from Konservative Studerende and two from the Student Council (who have never lost an election to the Board at UCPH).<\/p>\n<p>In addition, both students and staff have contested elections at a number of academic councils and boards of studies.<\/p>\n<p>Here is the list:<\/p>\n<h3>Academic staff (VIP)<\/h3>\n<p>The Academic Council of Humanities (English, Germanic and Romance studies)<br \/>\nThe Academic Council Health Sciences (Pharmacist)<br \/>\nThe Academic Council Health Sciences (Basic subjects)<br \/>\nThe Board of Studies for the Saxo Institute (Ethnology)<br \/>\nThe Board of Studies for the bachelor programme in Law<br \/>\nThe Board of Studies for Food, Human Nutrition and Sport (Department of Food and Resource Economics)<br \/>\nThe Board of Studies for Medicine and the health science master&#8217;s degree (Department of Clinical Medicine)<\/p>\n<h3>Technical-administrative staff (TAP)<\/h3>\n<p>Academic Council, Humanities<br \/>\nAcademic Council Natural Sciences<\/p>\n<h3>Students<\/h3>\n<p>The Board of the University<br \/>\nAcademic Council Humanities<br \/>\nAcademic Council Law<br \/>\nAcademic Council Social Science<br \/>\nThe Board of Studies MEF (Rhetoric)<br \/>\nThe Board of Studies for the bachelor programme in Law<br \/>\nThe Board of Studies for the Master\u2019s in Law and Part-time Programmes<br \/>\nThe Board of Studies for Global Development<br \/>\nThe Board of Studies for Psychology<br \/>\nThe Board of Studies for Political Science<br \/>\nThe Board of Studies for Dentistry<br \/>\nThe Board of Studies for Economics<\/p>\n<h3>PhD students<\/h3>\n<p>PhD Committee Health (Pharmacist)<\/p>\n<h2>How to vote<\/h2>\n<p>The vote for the UCPH elections takes place electronically on the <a href=\"https:\/\/kunet.ku.dk\/about-ucph\/election\/current-election\/Pages\/default.aspx\"><strong>election site on KUnet<\/strong><\/a> from 26th November at to 30th November at 15.00<\/p>\n<p>If your vote is uncontested, and you don\u2019t have to vote, you will find out when you log in to vote.<\/p>\n<h2>But wait. Who is actually running in my UCPH election?<\/h2>\n<p>If you want actual names, you need a bit of patience. UCPH has uploaded a <a href=\"https:\/\/kunet.ku.dk\/om-ku\/valg\/Documents\/Kandidatliste.pdf\">178-page pdf file<\/a> with all the candidates for all elections \u2013 including those selected by an uncontested election \u2013 and writes: &#8220;Use the search function Ctrl + F to find the relevant electoral bodies and candidates\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>We at the University Post cover the election in a number of articles up to (and during) the election 26th-30th November \u2013 including interviews with leading candidates for the Board election.<\/p>\n<h2>Contributions are welcome<\/h2>\n<p>You can post featured comments for the election debate to uni-avis@adm.ku.dk.<\/p>\n"},{"acf_fc_layout":"ArticleEnd"},{"acf_fc_layout":"Newsletter","lang_select":"Dansk","identifier":"Newsletter","headline":"Receive a weekly newsletter in your inbox","button_text":"Tilmeld nu","class":""},{"acf_fc_layout":"OtherStories","headline":"","hand_picked_posts":false,"references":false,"category":false,"theme":false,"number_of_posts":"4","style":"default"}]},"taxonomyData":{"category":[{"term_id":48,"name":"Politics","slug":"politics","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":48,"taxonomy":"category","description":"","parent":0,"count":1036,"filter":"raw"}],"post_tag":[{"term_id":1512,"name":"Univalg 2018","slug":"univalg-2018-en","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":1512,"taxonomy":"post_tag","description":"","parent":0,"count":2,"filter":"raw"},{"term_id":1513,"name":"university elections 2018","slug":"university-elections-2018","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":1513,"taxonomy":"post_tag","description":"","parent":0,"count":3,"filter":"raw"}],"post_format":[],"expression":[{"term_id":18,"name":"Feature Article","slug":"feature_article","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":18,"taxonomy":"expression","description":"","parent":0,"count":1200,"filter":"raw"}],"translation_priority":[]},"featured_media_url":"https:\/\/uniavisen.dk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/valgtegning1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/uniavisen.dk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78063","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/uniavisen.dk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/uniavisen.dk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uniavisen.dk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uniavisen.dk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=78063"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/uniavisen.dk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78063\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":78068,"href":"https:\/\/uniavisen.dk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78063\/revisions\/78068"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uniavisen.dk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/56143"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/uniavisen.dk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=78063"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uniavisen.dk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=78063"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uniavisen.dk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=78063"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}