Vice President for Studies and Teaching
Prof. Dr.
Klaus
Meier
Vice President for Studies and Teaching
Room: SR-116
Postal Address
Ostenstr. 26, 85072 Eichstätt
Ostenstr. 26, 85072 Eichstätt
About Prof. Dr. Klaus Meier
Prof. Dr. Klaus Meier
Born in 1968. After a two-year journalism internship and a year as a local reporter for the newspaper Frankenpost (Hof), he studied journalism at the Catholic University of Eichstätt-Ingolstadt, where he later completed a doctoral degree in communication studies, political science, and philosophy. He has worked as a freelance journalist for media outlets such as Süddeutsche Zeitung and the television broadcaster Bayerische Rundfunk, and is the co-founder of a PR agency. He was a research associate at the KU’s Chair of Journalism I from 1996 to 2001, during which time he also worked as a consultant and coach for editorial teams and training institutes for journalists in several countries. From 2001 to 2009 he was a professor of journalism at Darmstadt University of Applied Sciences, where he established degree programs in online journalism and science journalism. He was Chair of Cross Media Developments in Journalism at the Institute of Journalism at Technische Universität Dortmund from September 2009 to December 2010. He holds the Chair of Journalism I at the Catholic University of Eichstätt-Ingolstadt since 2011.
Klaus Meier was awarded with the Ars Legendi Prize for excellent university teaching in 2017. The prize is awarded by the Stifterverband für die Wissenschaft and the German Rectors’ Conference.
More informations: www.ku.de/en/meier-biography
Tasks within the University Management
- Fundamental questions on studies and teaching
- Accreditation of degree programs and quality development in studies and teaching
- Contact person for students
- Within University Management: responsible for Studium.Pro
- Within University Management: responsible for the Center for Teacher Education (ZLB)
- Within University Management: responsible for the Language Center
- Representation of the KU for Studies and Teaching in the Hochschule Bayern e.V.
- Teacher evaluation and questions regarding teaching load
- University teaching methodology, funding programs and prizes
- Innovative university teaching
- Professional development and continuing education
Office assistant
Ida
Graf
Office of the Vice President
Building
Sommerresidenz
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Room: SR-112
Office hours
Mon - Thu mornings
Mon - Thu mornings
Predecessor
Prof. Dr. Markus Eham
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Prof. Dr. Markus Eham (Vice president for studies and teaching 2014-2021)
has been a professor of liturgy, music and voice training at the KU Faculty of Religious Education since 1993. In his time at the Faculty, he held the position of Dean three times. Previously, he worked at the German Liturgical Institute in Trier as an expert for church music. He then became a lecturer for liturgics at the Seminary of the Archdiocese of Munich and Freising and an employee at the Office for Church Music of the Archdiocese. His work focuses on projects with a practical orientation and publications on liturgics and church music that particularly deal with musical compositions for church services, which are tailored to the specific characteristics of the parishes. He participated in a commission of the German Bishops’ Conference that developed a new version of the prayer and song book “Gotteslob”. Eham studied theology at the Ludwig-Maximilians-University in Munich, where he also obtained his doctoral degree.