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10/08/2018 | Campus-Meldung

Sylke Ernst continues Women's and Equal Opportunity Officer

Dr. Sylke Ernst (56) remains the Women's and Equal Opportunity Officer at the University of Kassel. With the approval of the Senate, the University's Executive Board has now appointed Ernst for a further six years until November 30, 2024.

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Dr. Sylke Ernst.

"I am pleased that Ms. Ernst will continue to fill this important position," said the university's president, Prof. Dr. Reiner Finkeldey; he is also responsible for the topic of equality in the Presidential Board. "I have come to know her as a thoroughly energetic officer, but always oriented toward the cause and the good of the university, who has achieved a great deal for equality at our university."

Sylke Ernst has been director of the Women's and Equal Opportunity Office since December 2012. From 2009 to 2012, she was deputy head of the Equal Opportunities Office at Georg-August-Universität Göttingen. Prior to that, the geographer and climate researcher worked as a scientist: Among other things, she held a substitute professorship for physical geography in Kassel from 1997 to 1998.