The social safety plan of action that TU Delft needs to submit to the Inspectorate of Education in mid-May is almost ready. At least, the version that the Executive Board wants to submit. It concerns a ‘living document’ that has been renamed a ‘change management plan’. In the document, the Executive Board expresses repentance, recognises that looking back is needed, and names a few potential measures for the short and longer term.
Monday morning Delta published an article entitled How confidentiality led to anxiety among I&IC staff and a loss of confidence in the Rector. Under protest, we removed it the same evening.
The Executive Board has imposed a duty of confidentiality on the management team of the Innovation & Impact Centre (I&IC) regarding the performance of the Director appointed on 1 April 2023. It has brought about such a level of uncertainty and frustration among I&IC staff members that they feel hurt. Twelve staff members spoke to Delta about a loss of confidence in Rector Magnificus Tim van der Hagen, the Director of Human Resources, and the Ombuds functionary. How one issue illustrates the conclusions of the Inspectorate of Education: welfare of employees at TU Delft is not being mismanaged
The so-called Students and Staff for Safety - an anonymous group of people from TU Delft - have opened a poll following their petition. They are also launching a 'call for action'. In a post on Change.org, they ask people whether they think the current Executive Board is capable of bringing about the cultural change
The ‘Social safety project team’ has set four dates on which TU Delft employees, students and alumni can share ideas about ‘a safer working and studying environment’. The Supervisory Board will attend one of the sessions and the Executive Board another.
TU Delft alumnus Boris Schellekens filed a complaint at TU Delft’s Research Integrity Committee against the Dean of his former faculty Aerospace Engineering (AE). He is hoping that TU Delft will withdraw from the Future-proof Aviation manifesto.
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.
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?
Alice Stäbler will become interim director of the Innovation & Impact Centre (I&IC) as of 28 March. This is stated in a message on intranet. Stäbler replaces Kemo Agović who, according to the message, ‘recently decided to step down from his position as Director I&IC to pursue a new career path’. Since 2018, Alice Stäbler
