In October 2014 an amendment to the Higher Edcuation Act of the German State of North Rhine-Westphalia (NRW) (the so called "Hochschulzukunftsgesetz") came into effect. In the law-making procedure of this amendment the Ministry of Innovation, Science and Research of NRW ("Ministerium für Innovation, Wissenschaft und Forschung"; MIWF) tried to...