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| The face mask will return to the university and we will have to work from home more often. In-person lectures are still allowed, though the debate about whether a QR code is necessary for entry has started. Furthermore, this newsletter contains a portrait of the action group 0.7 that advocates for temporary employees and has given the universities an ultimatum. We also pay attention to the new Bachelor’s programme Care, Health & Society, which allows students to become a physician, a pharmacist or a veterinarian. We also talk to researcher and alumna Nancy Jouwe about the UU buildings that are tainted by slavery. For a complete overview of our news and articles, visit dub.uu.nl/en.
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| Fundamental and practical objections to Covid pass in higher education
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| As from Saturday, students and staff of higher education institutions will once again have to wear a face mask when they are walking through the buildings. If you fail to do so, you could be fined €95. Read more
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| Protest group 0.7 wants to put a stop to unpaid overtime at universities
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| Unpaid overtime and not knowing whether your contract will be extended. These are a few of the problems part-time lecturers face. In order to stop “the exploitation of these employees” Tim de Winkel started the protest group 0.7". Read more
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Hundreds of international students contact housing hotline
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| Hundreds of international students have contacted the housing hotline established by the Dutch Student Union (LSVb), to ask for assistance. They were unable to find housing or encountered other problems. Read more
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| Student Tom goes out with non-native Sawsan
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| Video Last week, the academy building hosted a special event where Utrecht’s students and staff dined together with non-Dutch speakers who are currently following a course at Taal Doet Meer. The meeting, part of the lustrum of the UU and the academic hospital, should ensure that Dutch-speaking Utrechters and non-native speakers get to know each other. Read more
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| New fund designed to help first-generation students
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| Students who are the first in their family to attend university often have a harder time finding their way around the academic world. Charisma Hehakaya used to be one of them. Now a PhD student at UMC Utrecht, she is launching a fund for first-generation students to provide them with financial and social support. Read more
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| Pouring your heart out to Psychology student Mijke: ‘You can tell us anything’
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| Student life can have many challenges and bumps in the road. Sometimes all you need is to vent to someone. That's what the Alles Oké? hotline is for. UU Psychology student Mijke Dhont (21) is one of its volunteers. Read more
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| New Bachelor provides students with broader perspectives on healthcare
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| The new Utrecht-based selective Bachelor Care, Health & Society gives students access to all Master's programmes of Medicine, Veterinary Medicine and Pharmacy. “We want to view education in a fundamentally different way.” Read more
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| Online course helps lecturers recognise radicalisation among students
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| Hundreds of young people in the Netherlands are becoming radicalised, according to a report issued by the National Coordinator for Security and Counterterrorism (NCTV). A new online course will help lecturers recognise radicalised students. Read more
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| Fewer foreign students coming to the Netherlands for preparatory programme
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| Dutch universities are going to admit fewer students from outside the European Union to the preparatory year.. It is no longer possible to misuse these transition programmes to attract foreign students. Read more
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It's that time of the year again: DUB is looking for a new campus columnist. The contest is once again open for submissions from students and employees. Would you like to share your views with the UU community in a biweekly column? Then send us two proposed columns and maybe next year Lili Szarvas might pass the baton to you! The winner also gets the Erik Hardeman stipend, worth 1,000 euros.
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| Researcher calls on UU to acknowledge its history with slavery
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| People who profited from slavery used to live in buildings currently owned by Utrecht University. That is not the only trace of slavery in academia that needs to be made visible and acknowledged, says cultural historian and author Nancy Jouwe. Read more
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| ‘Humans shouldn’t decide whether animals participate in scientific research’
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| “While we treat test animals better than in the past, our attitude towards them hasn’t fundamentally changed. Human interest is still paramount, and humans are still the ones deciding the fate of test animals,” says Anne van Veen. Read more
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| Thirty percent of Dutch scientific articles behind a paywall
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| Even though the vast majority of scientific articles published last year could be read for free, there is still a large amount of articles behind a paywall that are not accessible to outsiders. Read more
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| Pension fund ABP plans to dispose of fossil fuel shares
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| The pension fund for the public and education sectors has vowed to no longer invest in oil, gas and coal, following the protests of academics throughout the Netherlands. The organisation plans to sell all its shares in the fossil fuel industry over the next one and a half years. Read more
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| 'Participating in the council is bad for your career? That can't be right!'
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| There are many reasons for young researchers for not taking part in the university council. Like lack of appreciation and facilities. But they mostly fear the negative effects on their future careers. Read more
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| Dutch Research Council allocates grants for open science
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| More and more scientific articles can be read free of charge, but what about the underlying data? Twenty-six researchers have received up to 50,000 euros from the Dutch Research Council to make research data freely accessible. Read more
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| Fundamental and practical objections to Covid pass in higher education
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| The government will not require the use of a Covid pass on campus, mainly because implementation would be highly impractical according to the higher education institutions. Asking staff to check the students’ QR code would be a “major logistical puzzle”. Read more
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| Follow us on Twitter, Instagram, Facebook and LinkedIn for the latest news about UU and university life. 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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| Read much more at www.dub.uu.nl/en. This week, the site features an article about two students travelling to the Glasgow Climate Change Conference and a story about whether scientists too often function as a politician or policy maker.
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