Universiteit van Amsterdam

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History and characteristics
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Universiteit van Amsterdam

• Established in 1632 as Athenaeum Illustre
• A comprehensive university
• 22.000 students
• Annual budget 386 million euros
• Over 60 Dutch taught programmes
• 5,000 people employed (55 academics)
• Numerous high quality research projects
• Strong internationalisation programme
• Variety of international (English) programmes
• Close links with the city of Amsterdam

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UvA under the Modernization University
Governance Act (MUB 1997)

• Feature Individual accountability
• Supervisory board
• Executive board
• 7 faculties
• Appointed Professional deans
• Teaching institutes
• Research institutes
• Departments

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• Faculties of the UvA
• Faculty of Dentistry
• Faculty of Economics and Econometrics
• Faculty of Humanities
• Faculty of Law
• Faculty of Medicine
• Faculty of Science
• Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences

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Organization
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UvA administrative organization
SB
Senate
Board
CBO
CSC
CPC
JM
DB
Faculty
Dean
PC
SC
RI
Department
TI
PC
chairman
director
director
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Board Services
Board
SG
VP
CC
AA
Means
AS
CO
Library
IT
Facilities
Administration
Sports / Health
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UvA administrative organization
SB
Board / SG
VP
Services
CC
Dentistry
Medicine
Humanities
Sciences
Social and Behavioural Sciences
Law
Economics
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Faculty
Dean
Teaching Institute
Research Institute
Director
Director
Department
Chairman
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Responsibilities/positions
Coherence Context Change External relations
Faculty (Professional dean)
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Responsibilities/positions
Department Chair (Chair Professor)
Staffing policy Development of the discipline as
a whole
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Responsibilities/positions
Director of the Teaching institute

• Implementation of curricula
• organization
• planning
• work load
• quality

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Responsibilities/positions
Director of the Research institute

• Programming of research
• Quality control
• Training and supervision of PhDs

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Figures staff and students
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Professors per faculty

• Humanities 77
• Law 39
• Medicine 107
• Dentistry 9
• Science 87
• Economics and Econometrics 59
• Social and Behavioural Sciences 70

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Academic staff per faculty

• Humanities 308
• Law 177
• Medicine 547
• Dentistry 75
• Science 410
• Economics and Econometrics 141
• Social and Behavioural Sciences 432

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Support staff per faculty

• Humanities 121
• Law 91
• Medicine 234
• Dentistry 77
• Science 371
• Economics and Econometrics 76
• Social and Behavioural Sciences 207

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• Number of registered students per faculty

Humanities 4481 Law 3556 Medicine 1787 Dentistry 4
11 Science 1872 Economics and Econometrics 2992 So
cial and Behavioural Sciences 6596 Total 21695
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International Students

• Exchange students
• incoming 450
• outgoing 800
• (Regular) foreign students 1061
• Participants International Study 590
• Programmes

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Finance
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Income and expenditure

• central government grants 311 M
• tuition fees 28 M
• research and education 54 M
• other 47 M
• total expenditure 430 M
• personnel costs 245 M
• other costs 185 M

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Expenditure per faculty

• Humanities 40,4 M
• Law 17,3 M
• Medicine 50,0 M
• Dentistry 13,5 M
• Science 66,9 M
• Economics and Econometrics 18,8 M
• Social and Behavioural Sciences 56,0 M

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Institutional plan
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• Strategy 1999 2002
• Main intentions
• Offer curricula with as high a quality as that
  of research
• Optimise the new organisational structure
• Large investments in accommodation and
  infrastructure

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• General principles
• Emphasis on consolidation instead of on new
  policy
• Upgrading of weaknesses, maintenance of
  strengths
• Modernisation of infrastructure

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• Optimising the organisational structure
• A new balance between hierarchy and professional
  autonomy
• Employee participation in management
• Internal communication

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• Human Resources Management
• Increase mobility
• Professionalisation of management
• Flexibility in wages and duties
• Policy of diversity