The academic community at TU Delft does not get enough practice in carrying out critical, well-argued and respectful debates. Academic freedom is thus wasting away, argues columnist Bob van Vliet. He calls on professors and others in high positions to take the lead.
The climate crisis is so important that sustainability must be included in every single decision, writes Otto Kaaij, our new student columnist. While he believes that TU Delft is making good progress, it is not there yet and an advertising hoarding is the crazy proof of this.
It is concerning that TU Delft hires so many consultants to solve its problems, writes Delta’s new student columnist Alex Nedelcu in his first piece. It hinders us from actually solving problems, he argues.
The media storm around the new Rutger Bregman book also got columnist Birgit van Driel thinking. She now wonders if she is wasting her talent.
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.
