Back to the Roots – Back to Foreign Languages with a Lot of Project Experience

Dr. Maria Worf is the new head of the Foreign Language Center at Chemnitz University of Technology

Dr. Maria Worf has been head of the Foreign Language Center (FLC) at Chemnitz University of Technology since March 1, 2022. After studying Adult Education and English/American Studies at Chemnitz University of Technology, she was involved in several university-wide projects. Now she is looking forward to her new job in the FLC team. "Due to the wide range of tasks and the university-wide scope of the projects, I am very well networked within TUC and bring with me extensive structural and organizational knowledge. However, the tasks at the Foreign Language Center are still completely new to me. But also and especially because they represent a 'back to the roots' for me and connect to my professional history as an adult educator with a foreign language background, I am very much looking forward to the new tasks and perspectives and hope that I can use my experience from project work and academia to professionalize the tried and tested and set a new impetus," says the new head of the FLC. Especially in the start-up phase, but also beyond, she would like to invite all interested members of Chemnitz University of Technology to contact her at any time with suggestions and proposals. E-mail: maria.worf@sz.tu-chemnitz.de

About: Dr. Maria Worf

Maria Worf studied Education with a Specialization in Adult Education and Continuing Education as well as English/American Studies at Chemnitz University of Technology and the University of Sheffield (GB). After working as an English teacher in general adult education, she returned to Chemnitz University of Technology to pursue a doctorate in educational sciences. Having completed her doctorate in the field of intergenerational learning in adult education, she initially worked in the university didactics project LiT (Lehrpraxis im Transfer). In 2013, she took over management of the project TU4U funded by the federal-state program Qualitätspakt Lehre (Quality Pact for Teaching) and led a team of 25 academic staff and up to 30 student employees there. In the TU4U project, comprehensive measures for orientation, advising and support in the student lifecycle were created by 2021. These included offerings in the study orientation phase such as RoboSchool, student labs, trial studies or study ambassadors, etc. Bridge courses or mentoring programs were initiated in the introductory phase of studies, and Learning|Room offerings, events such as the Lange Nacht für aufgeschobene Hausarbeiten (Long Night of Deferred Papers) or the Tage der Lehre (Days of Teaching), a university-wide tutoring program and an extensive counseling program for overcoming individual challenges, and much more were created. With the follow-up project TUCdiscover, in which she had been active since April 2021, the focus was placed on student recruitment. Here, Maria Worf was responsible for the Virtual TUC Days, school contacts, study program videos, the student recruitment campaign, and the student recruitment task force, among other things.

(Author: Mario Steinebach / Translation: Brent Benofsky)

Matthias Fejes
23.03.2022

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