Ingrid Thijssen will be the new President of TU Delft. She is currently President of the employers’ organisation VNO-NCW. The Supervisory Board is pleased with the appointment.
Doors open or closed? After months of deadlock on this issue, the trade unions and the Executive Board of TU Delft have decided that their meetings will remain open to the public for the time being — although this does not apply to all topics.
As usual, voting for the Dutch parliamentary elections can be done on the TU Delft campus. There are two polling stations in the lobby of the Aula. It is a constant coming and going, mainly of students and staff.
Like the faculties, University Services and the Executive Board will have to make significant cutbacks in the coming years. What choices will they make? Almost all support processes will be affected – from personnel policy to catering and from ICT to strategic partnerships.
The Education Inspectorate’s reassessment into social safety at TU Delft has been delayed. The report will not be published until 2026, under a new Executive Board. This raises the question of whether the inspectorate will be assessing the TU as it was then or as it is now.
The TU Delft integrity and social safety reporting point received 85 reports in its first six months. What were they about and what has been done about them?
The Netherlands Labour Authority will begin a follow-up investigation into work pressure and undesirable behaviour at TU Delft in February. The university must demonstrate improvement in both areas by then, or face enforcement measures.
The Faculty of Industrial Design Engineering (IDE) is hosting an interactive exhibition about menopause in the week of 6 October and the audience is encouraged to contribute to it. Delta asked IDE dean Caspar Chorus why he took this particular initiative. “Let’s not put the burden solely on women.”
Action group ‘TU Delft for Integrity’ has launched its own hotline for ‘cases of academic complicity and unsafety at TU Delft related to Palestine’. The group of staff and students has noticed a pattern and wants to make that transparent.
