Executive Board (CvB) member and process controller Joop Sistermans let the University Council know more about the progress made by the various committees occupied with the reorganisation and economy operation at the UT. The reconsideration in the committee regrouping faculties was also inspired, according to him, by the results of drawing up an inventory among all chairs of their preferences for clustering in one of the new faculties. '85 Percent could make their choice immediately; 15 percent had a number of problems with that, among them the proposed faculty division,' according to Sistermans.
Huib de Jong, within the CvB responsible for education, added that in particular 'a number of chairs at EL' and 'Mathematical Sciences (TW) in its entirety' have difficulty choosing one of the five faculties.
However, Sistermans still sees possibilities to start with the five new faculties by 1 September. In parallel the procedure to appoint new deans will start in a few weeks' time. The contracts of all current deans end 1 July of this year.
The committee concerned with the services has determined, according to Sistermans, to make no choice in advance for centralisation or decentralisation of the services. In the search for cutbacks, they will, moreover, not only look at the services but also at the primary processes. The Berenschot report is therefore 'no longer sacred', according to Sistermans, 'but it has not been thrown away either. It is one of the many documents with which the committee is working.'
In response to critical questions from the council on the 'considerable raises in the budgets of management services' in the past years, CvB-member Hugo Barbas assured the council that these items will also get a 'substantial look' by the committee restructuring services.
