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04/16/2018 | Campus-Meldung

Society for Research on Higher Education honors young scientists and scholars

Ulrich Teichler Prize for Outstanding Dissertations and Prize of the Society for Higher Education Research for Outstanding Theses in Higher Education Research 2018 awarded. The award ceremony took place during the conference "Higher Education Spaces: Physical and Conceptual Location of Higher Education Institutions in the Knowledge Society" at the German University of Administrative Sciences Speyer.

Award winner Jennifer Dusdal with Prof. Dr. Ulrich Teichler. Photo: Höckelmann.

On April 12, 2018, a junior researcher was honored for her achievements in the field of higher education research. The appreciation and festive award ceremony took place on the occasion of the 13th annual conference of the Society for Higher Education Research, which was organized by the German University of Administrative Sciences in Speyer from April 12 to 13, 2018.

The Ulrich Teichler Prize was awarded for the first time in 2008. The Kassel-based higher education researcher, Professor Dr. Ulrich Teichler (INCHER Kassel) endowed the prize to encourage young scholars to scientifically address issues in higher education research. At the same time, outstanding young researchers' work on this topic is to be made more widely known to the public. The initiative was supported by the German Federal Ministry of Education and Science (BMBF) until 2013.

The following award winners were selected by a jury of six from the 25 papers submitted:

  • Jennifer Dusdal for her dissertation on ""What Forms of Organization Produce Science? Expansion, Diversity and Cooperation in the German Higher Education and Science System in a Global Context, 1900-2010" at the University of Luxembourg
  • Gerrit Vorhoff for his master thesis on the topic "Predicting and Explaining Student Drop-Out by Developing a Machine Learning Approach on Study Progression Data" at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT).

A requirement for the award is that a sound contribution is made to the technical and professional advancement of university research. The Ulrich Teichler Award for Dissertations consists of a printing cost subsidy of a maximum of 2000,- € and additionally a prize money of 1000,- €. The amount of the prize money for the awarded theses is 1000,- €.

Doctoral students and graduates from universities in German-speaking countries (D, A, CH, LU) can apply for the awards. The authors do not have to be members of the Gesellschaft für Hochschulforschung. A jury appointed by the Executive Board of the Society for Research on Higher Education and consisting of university researchers from different disciplines will decide on the submitted papers.