The student protest of the 1960s and the emergence of higher education research in Germany

In his colloquium lecture on this special date, Prof. Dr. Ulrich Teichler, the long-time director of INCHER-Kassel, will report on the student protest of the 1960s and the emergence of higher education research in Germany from the perspective of a contemporary witness.

Teichler - a Berlin student, early political conscientious objector and familiar with the first steps of higher education research - describes how misleading today's myths of "1968" and "revolt" are. The mainstream of the Berlin protest, which was strong in the years 1965-1967 and fragmented in 1968, was directed against the mustiness under the gowns and elsewhere. The belief that "the university was healthy at its core" eroded, and the first approaches to university research emerged not only as an impulse from the protesting students, but through numerous initiatives between 1956 and 1972. However, it took - why? - until 1978 until a university - namely the then Gesamthochschule Kassel - took university research seriously.

Lecture by Ulrich Teichler: The student protest of the 1960s and the emergence of higher education research in Germany
June 6, 2018, 5.00-6.30 p.m., Kassel, Arnold-Bode-Str. 8, R. 0113/0114