Did you know it was the student parties that ensured the bsa was lowered during the Covid pandemic? That they made sure that the UB added desks and coffee machines? And did you know it was a student party that stopped a megalomaniacal plan for a branch campus in China?
International students are often only temporarily in Groningen, so why devote that time to the university council? Five international council members for Lijst Calimero and SOG - De Vrije Student doesn’t currently have international council members - explain why they feel it’s essential to have international representation at the UG.
Is the bsa good motivation for students to do well? Should the university spend more resources on social safety? Should students all learn how to work with ChatGPT? Check out the voting compass!
A lot has changed at the UG in the past four hundred years. But some things have stayed remarkably the same. This week part two of our series: the cortège, the stately, annual procession of professors, which serves as a reflection of the university.
Whether it’s about changing western bias in the curriculum or a sign on a bathroom door, attempts to make education more inclusive are regularly met with resistance. Here are the four most controversial issues.
The university will be putting menstrual products in multiple buildings. Hans Biemans with the board of directors made this promise last Thursday to a committee in the university council.
The university council is only allowed to participate in the discussion about coffee, according to a prejudice. But this time it is true, says University Council member Ruben Wagenvoort of Student Organization Groningen (SOG) with a wink. So this piece is about coffee (or rather, the lack of it).
In 2021, the Groningen University Fund (GUF) invested part of its own capital in the weapons and tobacco industry and in fossil fuels, among other things. Treasurer Auke Plantinga explains.
As part of the cultural manifestation Bittersweet Heritage, the University Museum (UM) has set up two exhibitions and an encore on Indonesia, reflecting on the UG’s and the Netherlands’ colonial past. But there are critics.
The University Services Department and the Office of the University will be merging. The UG board emphasises the merger will not involve any compulsory redundancies.
When Lukas Stock had to write a random story for his journalism master’s, he contacted female students from Kabul University. Their stories shook him.
