[2] In October 2011 Sabine Doering Manteuffel succeeded Alois Loidl as rector of the university.Students of philology receive practical language training in English, French, Spanish, Italian and Portuguese.Particularly close partnerships are maintained with the following 4 universities: On 17 November 2009, over 500 students occupied lecture hall number 1, in an action to draw attention to what they perceived as poor conditions of education in Augsburg and in Germany as a whole.[4] Their specific protest was directed against the introduction of mandatory university tuition fees, and against what they saw as a decline in the quality of German high school education.[5] After massive student protests, all German states eventually canceled their attempts to introduce tuition fees at public universities.