12/15/2025

Saarland University Professor Alexander Baumeister accepted into the Academy of Excellence in Higher

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© UdS/Jörg PützAlexander Baumeister, Professor für Betriebswirtschaftslehre, ist in die Akademie Ausgezeichnete Hochschullehre e.V. aufgenommen worden.

Alexander Baumeister, Professor of Business Administration at Saarland University, has been accepted into the Academy of Excellence in Higher Education. Membership is granted to university teaching staff who stand out from many applicants in a competitive selection process and who represent exceptional teaching styles and innovative approaches. The academy is a nationwide network of outstanding teachers from various departments, types of universities and status groups.

The following text has been machine translated from the German with no human editing.

The members of the academy share the conviction that university teaching is a central place for shaping the future of society – and that innovations in teaching are most effective when they are shared, further developed and disseminated across locations. 

With Alexander Baumeister's admission, Saarland University not only gains recognition for excellent teaching: membership also opens up direct access to proven teaching innovations, collegial advice and cross-university cooperation. The experience gained from the academy flows back into courses, programme development and exchanges with colleagues at Saarland University in the form of concrete ideas, thus sustainably strengthening quality development in local studies and teaching. 

In teaching, business administration professor Alexander Baumeister advocates case- and problem-based learning. His teaching innovations often transcend university, institution and subject boundaries. He is currently combining case study work with student and AI-supported peer review in a competition format involving practical cooperation in a teaching project funded by the Foundation for Innovation in Higher Education Teaching in order to promote active learning.

Alexander Baumeister has already received several awards for his teaching. For example, he is the recipient of the Teaching Award of the State of Baden-Württemberg, received a Transform4Europe Teaching Certificate for his outstanding contribution to teaching excellence and led an interdisciplinary teaching project that was awarded the German Employer Award for Education. In addition, he has already been nominated five times for the Saarland Teaching Award during his time at Saarland University.

'Our members share what works – and develop it further together. Baumeister will enrich this exchange and, at the same time, act as a multiplier, bringing innovative approaches to Saarland University,' says Prof. Dr. Hannes Saas, chair of the Academy for Excellent University Teaching.

About the Academy: The Academy of Excellence in Higher Education is a nationwide network of outstanding, active teachers. In face-to-face and online formats, it creates spaces for collegial exchange, member initiatives, shared responsibility and joint learning – with the aim of highlighting and further developing excellent university teaching. The network grows in a quality-assured manner through a review-based admission process.

Further information: www.ausgezeichnete-hochschullehre.org