This year's conference of lecturers at the Department of Management, Controlling, HealthCare took place on May 23, 2018. The format has proven its worth as a forum for exchange between full-time lecturers, lecturers and employees. This year, the focus was on profile building.

It has now become a tradition for the Dean to start the conference by paying tribute to long-servinglecturers at the Department with a gift and introducing the new faces. After an overview of important key figures, such as the development of student numbers on Bachelor's and Master's degree courses, the Department's Critical Path Manager, Ms Meister, presents the so-called early warning system as a tool for identifying situations that are critical to student success. Since the summer semester of 2017, this tool has been used to initiate targeted study guidance. The aim is to reduce the drop-out rate as a result.

Based on the results of last year's Conference on Education, the heads of the degree programs Prof. Dr. Sandra Kirchner-Khairy and Prof. Dr. Dieter Thomaschewski present the milestones achieved so far in the course of the reaccreditation of the Bachelor's degree programs in Controlling and International Management Eastern Europe. With the extension of the practical phase in the Controlling degree programs from three to six months and a broadening of the business fundamentals, significant impulses from the previous conference have been realized. Implications for the future three-semester Master's degree courses in Controlling and Innovation Management were highlighted.

The question of the Department's most important target groups opened the second part of the conference. In the discussion moderated by Prof. Dr. Thomaschewski and Prof. Dr. Häusler, students, prospective students, the regional economy and lecturers were ranked in the top four places. Specific proposals were developed with these target groups in mind, which are to be tackled - certainly in relation to the available resources. Among other things, application-oriented education and the targeted promotion of students as part of a "talent chute" were named as profile-building elements. The 2019 Lecturers' Conference will provide a platform to discuss the implementation status in a large group at the latest.