“Getting corpses to move the cemetery”
Tagesspiegel reports on the criticism of many entrepreneurs that German universities are unable to reform
Tagesspiegel by Anja Kühne
“Wiesbaden University of Applied Sciences has never seen so many disgruntled elderly gentlemen: Delegate professors from 257 German universities listened to representatives from the business world at the beginning of the second day of their annual conference. The managers had been invited to the German Rectors’ Conference to provide inspiration – but instead they ended up dealing out blows. “The problem at universities is not a lack of money,” the young entrepreneur Peter Rasenberger told the rectors and presidents, “it’s all about thinking outside the box.” August-Wilhelm Scheer, Professor of business informatics and head of a software company with 1000 employees, shares this opinion. That’s why he is in favor of not leaving it up to the universities to reform themselves: “A reform from the inside is the same as wanting to move a cemetery and expecting the corpses do the work,” he says, his chin propped provocatively on his hand. …”