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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.
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.
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.
Commissions to design public buildings often go through a tendering process. This system is bad for the architecture sector, particularly for those graduating and young architects. This should and must change, says Nima Morkoç, founder of the HA-HA Design & Development architect firm.
Let us stop acting as though the reports made to the Inspectorate of Education are exceptions in an otherwise pleasant community, writes Assistant Professor Marieke Kootte. “Correct anyone that says that ‘women are like numbers, they are pretty to play with’.”
Student Mirte Brouwer is calling on TU Delft to support dual degree students. According to her, engineers who have undergone a broad education are highly valuable, but support from TU Delft for these students is very limited. The fact that top athletes, for example, do receive extra support proves that giving extra support would be possible.
Alex Nedelcu, Aerospace Engineering bachelor student, thinks his Faculty should not revert its bachelor’s programme back to Dutch, as Delta columnist Dap Hartmann suggested in his latest column. “To shut the door on international students would mean compromising TU Delft’s reputation on the world stage.”
TU Delft should not only close a potential knowledge gap of incoming students, as Tom Vroegrijk asserts. The university should also ensure that enough qualified teachers enter secondary education. That is what Freek Pols, TU Delft education researcher, proposes in this letter.
