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| In our last newsletter this year, we'll introduce you to three UU employees with refugee status. They talked about their trajectory from traineeship to contract and their relationship with their managers. DUB also spoke with transgender and non-binary students about why pronouns matter. Finally, we took a deep dive into the shortage of lecture halls and UU's upcoming energy costs. For a complete overview of our news and articles, visit dub.uu.nl/en.
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| ‘It’s not just about having a new job. It’s about having a new life’
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| Did you know that UU’s Incluusion programme also offers traineeship opportunities to refugees? DUB invited three trainees and their managers to comment on the experience of working together. Read more
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| How the number of students is putting UU’s room allocation under pressure
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| Analysis - UU has gained thousands of students these past few years and now there is a shortage of lecture halls. An improved schedule, evening classes and new buildings are expected to solve the issue. Read more
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| ‘It is about time we get a place to talk,’ say transgender and non-binary students
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| UU is working on a report on the use of pronouns and gender registration. In the meantime, DUB talked to transgender and non-binary students to learn what changes they would like to see. Read more
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UU calls on everyone to help it save energy
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| A call for ideas on how the university can save energy received around 110 suggestions, including replacing old freezers and turning off computer screens after your work is done. The university is expecting to spend 25 to 35 million euros on gas and electricity next year. Read more
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What is your favourite pop song?
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| Inspired by the Dutch holiday tradition of listening to a radio marathon with the best 2,000 songs of all time according to popular vote, DUB asked UU students and employees: what is your favourite song? We put them all together in a playlist. Read more
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The Promising Fifteen, five years later
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| 2017 marked the first time that DUB closed the year with a list of noteworthy students. The "Promising Fifteen" have since then become a tradition on our site. Five years on, we speak with three graduates who were on our first list. Where are they? What do they do? Read more
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| A literary magazine by students for students
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| What to do when you have an opinion on a literary work but no platform to share your thoughts? Easy: you join RevUU, a semi-annual literary magazine in which students do it all: from design to marketing to, of course, writing. Read more
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| Veritas suspends members over misogynistic messages
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| Misogynistic messages exchanged by members of the fraternity Veritas have been unveiled and the university is shocked. Before taking any measures, UU decided to wait to see what the association itself will do. Read more
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| Amnesty asks UU once more to sign manifest against sexual violence
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| For the second time, a group of students associated with Amnesty asked UU to sign a manifest against sexual violence. This time, the request was supported by a petition with over 811 signatures. Read more
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| When your home country is in conflict
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| When your home country is in conflict: an op-ed series
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| Opinion - This month, DUB is publishing a series of op-eds written by students directly affected by conflicts and political tensions abroad. From Ukraine to Iran, from Hungary to Sri Lanka. Click here to read them all.
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| Georgia: a country severed in parts and in constant threat
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| Opinion - Every international student must learn to deal with homesickness but, to Nina, from Georgia, thinking about her homeland and family also means lamenting the fact that the country is "severed in parts". Read more
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| Opinion - There's a sense of independence that comes from moving abroad to study. For Gunel, however, this feeling was cut short when war broke out in her home country, Azerbaijan. Suddenly, all she could think about was the family she had left behind. Read more
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| Vote for your favourite food truck
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| What kind of fast food tickles your fancy? We might be seeing new food trucks at Science Park in April. Students and employees will have a say in what type of food will be available on campus. Read more
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| Olympos sports centre soon to get two padel courts
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| Next academic year, UU students will be able to play the popular sport padel at the Olympos sports centre. Two new courts will be inaugurated opposite the entrance of the indoor sports halls and the sports café. Read more
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| Congress less than 700 kilometres away? Take the train
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| From January onwards, UU employees will only be able to go to certain European destinations by train. Flights will only be allowed in exceptional circumstances. Taking the train was only a recommendation until now. Read more
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| Teach-in protests against visit of Israeli delegation to UU teacher-training program
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| A group of students and teachers protested against the visit of a delegation from an Israeli teacher-training institute. They also gathered more than five hundred signatures for their petition. Read more
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| UU will no longer award VSB fund scholarships
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| UU alumni that want to study abroad will no longer receive a scholarship from the VSB fund. The university has quit its collaboration with the fund, due to how exhausting the selection process is in terms of time and energy. The fund was taken by surprise by the decision, the UU-council has also protested it. Read more
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| Russian military recruiting African exchange students
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| Exchange students in Russia are being mobilised by their host universities to fight in the war against Ukraine, according to several media outlets. The students are receiving military training on campus. Read more
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| New European university aims to help refugee and dissident academics
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| A new European university is being founded to help students, academics, artists and dissidents in need. One of the founders is Ellen Rutten, an Amsterdam-based specialist in Slavic studies. Read more
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| Internationalisation: Minister of Education still weighing his options
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| Amid calls for a halt to the recruitment of international students and a quick-fix bill, the Dutch Minister of Education told the House of Representatives that he does not want to be rushed. Read more
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| Anti-cheating software could be racist, says human rights institute
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| The widely-used surveillance software Proctorio may well be guilty of discrimination, according to an interim decision by the Netherlands Institute for Human Rights, a decision regarded as a milestone. Read more
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DUB is going to take a little break. Our next newsletter will be sent on January 30. Meanwhile, you can follow us on Twitter, Instagram and Facebook so you don't miss any news about UU and university life when we come back in January.
If you would like to share something with us, please feel free to send us a message. Prefer sending an e-mail? No problem. Write to dubredactie@uu.nl.
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