Let us not allow our academic community to be forced into silence by lawyers, argues Professor Richard Goossens (Faculty of Industrial Design Engineering) in connection with the legal pressure put on Delta. Address the culture of fear and self-censorship by learning from our mistakes and restarting the open debate.
Our new student columnist Mirte Brouwer asks why Delta looked for a columnist made of flesh-and-blood if AI could also do the job.
Just over a month after the Education Inspectorate report came out, columnist Dap Hartmann gives the Executive Board some free advice: come clean, be accountable and quit window dressing.
In this letter to the editor, Mathematics Professor Jan van Neerven takes up columnist Bob van Vliet’s hashtag #NotMyExecutiveBoard. He wonders whether the Executive Board and the Supervisory Board will live up to their own words.
Bas Rooijakkers almost has his master’s degree. But now that his working life is within sight, he is drowning in a sea of options. Will he ever find his calling?
Now that the Inspectorate report is published, TU Delft too quickly jumps into its traditional role of problem solver, turning its back on the past and closing its doors. If we really want a socially safe university, we should not let this happen, writes Saskia Bonger, Editor in Chief, in this opinion piece.
Much of the discussion about social safety is about hierarchy, writes columnist Bob van Vliet. But you can also call it something else: a lack of democracy. ‘We have zero power over our administrators.’
Jan Schiereck, staff member at TU Delft’s Innovation & Impact Centre, is concerned about his ‘colleagues and our working conditions’, he writes in this letter.
This is Vishal Onkhar’s last column for Delta. Writing has been good for him, but not always easy, he says. It often felt like a three-way wrestling match. Nevertheless, he expresses his gratitude to all of you readers.
