Dr. Anna Scheer – New Director of the Office of Academic Affairs

Since April 1, 2020, Dr. Anna Scheer has served as head of the Office of Quality in Academic Studies and Teaching. There, together with her ten staff members, she coordinates the administrative office of the Vice President for Academic Studies and Teaching.

After completing the Abitur, Scheer left her hometown of Kaiserslautern to pursue a bachelor’s degree in “Modern Foreign Languages, Cultures, and Business Studies and Economics” at Justus Liebig University in Giessen. There, she placed particular emphasis on English and French, as well as Business Studies and Economics. To further expand the Business Studies and Economics component of her studies, she transferred to TU Dortmund University, where she earned her master’s degree. She then continued her academic training in 2014 at Friedrich Schiller University in Jena. There, she earned her Ph.D. in 2018 from the “Chair of Strategic and International Management” with a dissertation on organizational identity. At the same time, she played a key role in establishing a new interdisciplinary degree program, for which she was responsible until her departure in March 2020.

To deepen her experience in the quality management research group, she served as a parental leave substitute in the area of academic advising and quality assurance at the Faculty of Business Studies and Economics at the University of Jena from 2018 to 2019. In addition, she has worked as a consultant for quality assurance and program development since 2019. There, she assisted with the evaluation and further development of degree programs as well as with the development of a university-wide quality assurance system.

The position advertised at TUK perfectly matched her career aspirations and brought her back to Kaiserslautern. Full of energy and drive, the young department head is diving into her new responsibilities. She is delighted to have the opportunity to make a difference at TUK. Despite working from home during the COVID-19 pandemic, she has now gotten to know her entire team.

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