To draw attention to the visibility of transgender people, True U, the LHBTQI+ employees network, handed out Easter eggs on campus on Thursday. “We want to show that we too are allowed to be here. In all our diversity.”

For the first time since the Inspectorate of Education’s report was published, the Executive Board, Works Council (OR) and Student Council sat around the meeting table together. Only a small part of the meeting was public. A couple of new pieces of information were shared. One of these is that the OR wants more women in some management teams.

The monthly meeting between the Executive Board and the representation bodies, that is planned for Thursday the 28th, will be held largely behind closed doors. Only the last half hour of the two hour long meeting will be made public.

Tim van der Hagen, Rector Magnificus and Chair of the Executive Board at TU Delft, does not think he made a misjudgement by threatening the Inspectorate with a lawsuit. How does he justify this when it took three weeks of protest before he changed his mind?

In an email to staff about the suspended court case, the Executive Board writes that socially threatening behaviour is not acceptable and should not be downplayed. Yet, in a response to the draft report of the Inspectorate of Education, the administrators cast doubts on the experiences of those reporting incidents, an analysis by Delta shows.

The Student Council’s monthly consultation meeting had to proceed without the Executive Board, while both should have discussed the Inspectorate’s report publicly for the first time.

TU Delft employees could share their ideas about a safer working environment in a meeting organised by the Works Council. “Don’t say that you want everyone to enjoy a good working environment, but say that it is your responsibility to create a good working environment.”

The Executive Board will not file a case against the Inspectorate of Education. This was stated in email to all staff on Wednesday morning, 20 March. Delta talked to Rector Tim van der Hagen about it.

The internal trade unions at TU Delft pose ‘serious questions about the continuity of the change processes required by the Inspectorate of Education’. Two Board members will only be in office for a relatively short period to come, while the unions believe that changing a culture needs long-term stable leadership.

All TU Delft staff members can share their ideas about creating a safer working environment with the Works Council (OR). The OR has invited all staff to a meeting on Wednesday 20 March. The OR will share the ideas with the Executive Board, that is planning to submit its plan of action to the Inspectorate of Education on 19 May at the latest.