About the Faculty of Arts
Dean's office
Dean
The Dean of the Faculty of Arts at Aarhus University is Maja Horst. The Dean has professional and financial responsibility for the Faculty of Arts at Aarhus University, colloquially called Arts.
Vice-Deans
The Vice-Deans at the Faculty of Arts take care of a number of the dean's tasks at the faculty on a daily basis.
- Vice-Dean for research and talent development: Søren Michael Sindbæk
- Vice-Dean for education: Niels Lehmann
Schools
The Faculty of Arts is divided into three schools:
- The School of Communication and Culture
- The School of Culture and Society
- The Danish School of Education
The school secretariats take care of the day-to-day administration at the schools.
Each school is divided into a number of departments, which can be seen below:
Research programmes and centers
The research at the Faculty of Arts is organized in research programmes and research centres.
Administration
The Administrative Centre Arts - colloquially called ACA - performs supportive administrative tasks for the schools and centres at the Faculty of Arts within the fields of HR, estates management, IT, communication, and PhD and studies administration. The Administrative Centre Arts has about 200 employees based in two geographical locations (Aarhus and Copenhagen).
The employees report to the university director via the head of administration at Arts and the functional manager who is responsible for the relevant area.
The head of administration at Arts is Ulla Gjørling, who is tasked with ensuring the coherence of the administrative services in the administrative centre.
Employer panels
The employer panels advise on education quality and quality development in the development of new educations and their accreditation, as well as in new study programs and rotation accreditations.
Advisory Board
The faculty's Advisory Board advises the dean and the faculty management in a number of areas, such as the faculty's mission and core tasks, strategies and action plans in relation to research, education, talent development and knowledge exchange, the offer of degree programs and their further development, the internal distribution of funds, organizational structure and the faculty's global orientation and other strategic collaborations.
The Faculty Secretariat
The dean's office is supported by the faculty secretariat. The secretariat supports the faculty's core tasks.
Management Forum, Arts
The management forum at Arts consists of the faculty management, heads of studies, department heads, head of DPU, Campus Aarhus, as well as the school secretariat heads and division managers from the Administrative Center Arts (ACA). The management forum is not a decision-making management circle. The Faculty's Management Forum meets at least twice a year with a view to sharing knowledge and joint reflection, e.g. in relation to strategic issues at the faculty.
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