The elective course architecture and colonialism will not be returning, despite a petition to retain it having been signed 200 times. The lecturers are disappointed about a lack of communication and support from the Faculty of Architecture and the Built Environment. The dean states that it was always clear that the course would be a one-off.
The number of women professors at TU Delft remains far below the national average and its own target, even though five years ago that target was considered realistic. What went wrong and how can things be improved? Delta discussed this with Vice-Rector Hans Hellendoorn and Acting Chief Diversity Officer Cynthia Liem.
The fire in the student flat on Van Hasseltlaan last weekend was started deliberately. Owner DUWO has hired security guards to prevent a repeat occurrence.
By early October, one in four TU Delft managers had completed the one-day course Leadership and Social Safety. Another quarter had signed up. The unions are calling for the training to be mandatory, but the Executive Board is sticking to persuasion rather than compulsion.
What do you think of our new draft code of conduct? That is what TU Delft wants to know from its staff and students. The code is intended to provide more clarity about what behaviour is and is not desirable.
Professor of Biotechnology and Society Patricia Osseweijer will retire this Friday. Delta has already read her farewell speech. The tone and form are light-hearted, but what resonates is an urgent plea for designing with global justice as the conscious end goal. “Things can be different.”