Quality development at the Folkwang University of the Arts
The Folkwang University of the Arts strives to establish dialog-oriented quality work that enables it to achieve defined quality objectives while taking into account the institutional characteristics - and at the same time to make decisions on university development in the sense of reconciling the diverse interests of university members.
The Folkwang University of the Arts has created a binding framework for the legally compliant conception, implementation and further development of its dialog-oriented quality work in the Quality Work Regulations. The regulations clearly assign responsibilities, define the paradigms of Folkwang's quality work and describe university-specific procedures and instruments in detail. Folkwang is committed to quality work that serves the development of studies, teaching and artistic projects. Event-related evaluations and structured quality dialogs are defined as a suitable way to make effective changes and improvements to teaching and learning processes.
Since autumn 2022, the Folkwang University of the Arts has already had a mission statement for teaching, which is the basis for the content-related and professional orientation of quality work at all times and is reflected in the curricula of the Folkwang degree programs. The Folkwang University of the Arts Code of Conduct, adopted at the beginning of 2024, serves as a guiding framework for interactions with one another.
The quality work at Folkwang was strategically designed as part of the "Exzellent beraten" quality pact project, successively implemented and continuously developed since then. It comprises evaluation-oriented processes, procedures and instruments at course, module and degree program level, each of which can be used to support individual quality objectives in a needs- and goal-oriented manner.
The Quality Development department is also responsible for coordinating and supporting the accreditation and reaccreditation procedures for degree programs at Folkwang University of the Arts that are subject to accreditation.
In addition, there are numerous accompanying procedures and instruments, the use of which has made it possible to derive a large number of targeted measures.
