[6] On 14 June 2024, Bauer resigned from her state parliament mandate when she was appointed managing director of the Baden-Württemberg Foundation.

[12] Unlike some other federal states, Baden-Württemberg fully compensates for the universities' lost income due to the abolition of tuition fees.

On 17 July 2013, Bauer presented a concept according to which music universities in Baden-Württemberg would save 4 million euros per year.

[15] Bauer later abandoned the plans, but urged the music universities to develop a stronger profile and focus on the needs of the labour market.

[18] In January 2015, the new university funding agreement, "Perspective 2020", which Bauer played a key role in negotiating, was signed.

Baden-Württemberg was thus the first federal state to follow the recommendation of the German Science and Humanities Council to increase the basic funding of universities by 3 percent per year.

The campus was created on the initiative of Nobel Prize winner Stefan Hell and is supported by the state of Baden-Württemberg with 25 million euros.

[29] Under Bauer's aegis, the state government provided 18 million euros for the Baden and Württemberg wind music academies by 2020.

[31] In September 2018, Bauer launched the ideas competition "Mobility concepts for an emission-free campus" for the universities in Baden-Württemberg.

[36][37] As a minister she was involved in reparations negotiations with the African nation of Namibia, which was colonised from 1884 to 1915 as German South West Africa.

[38] During a visit to Namibia in March 2019, Minister Bauer presented the "Witbooi Bible and Whip" which had been captured by German colonial troops in 1883 back to the community.

[39] She announced further initiatives by the state of Baden-Württemberg to ensure that German-Namibian history is not forgotten and that reconciliation takes place.

[40] "We want to work through our shared colonial history together and open a new chapter of cooperation today", she said on 27 February in Windhoek.

The goals of this project are to make the historical sources of the National Archives more accessible and to promote the exchange of knowledge between the countries.

[47] She campaigned for mayor on a platform including affordable housing, accessible transport and climate change prevention.

[53] After 2013, 2015 and 2016, she was named Science Minister of the Year by the German University Association [de] (DHV) for the fourth time in 2022.

[55] At the end of 2011, the former rector of the Ludwigsburg University of Public Administration [de] granted 17 professors financial allowances on an illegal basis.

[56] In this context, Theresia Bauer was accused of not having forwarded the matter to the public prosecutor's office or the Court of Auditors, and of not having sufficiently supported the subsequent rector, Claudia Stöckle, in the clean-up work.

[57] Since 20 July 2017, the committee of inquiry has also been dealing with matters relating to the salaries of professors at the University of Applied Sciences for Technology, Business and Design (HTWG) in Konstanz.

The reasons for the judgment also state that the so-called Stratthaus Commission, which Bauer set up to clarify the situation, was by no means free and independent in the court's opinion.

[67] As Minister for Science, Art and Culture, Theresia Bauer reintroduced the organized student body in Baden-Württemberg.