Folia interviews Dağlar Taşci to talk about her experience as a mentee in the Meet Your Mentor (MYM) UvA pilot program. "The transition from studying to working is exciting for many students, but especially for students who have no examples within their own environment. Dağlar Taşci is such a student. A personal mentor helps her. … Continue reading Meet Your Mentor in Folia
The Chief Diversity Officer (CDO) team sponsors CARE at the University of Amsterdam. As this project is expanding, the CDO team interviewed the two therapists leading the support group sessions. CARE is a support group for victims-survivors of sexual violence. It aims to create a safe space and a community for the people involved. CARE … Continue reading Interview CARE at the UvA
The University of Amsterdam and the University of Birmingham are inviting you to embrace the diversity of our communities and ignite broader conversations about how we can foster a more inclusive city, university and student community. Embedding equity, diversity and inclusion, student ambassadors of the two institutions are organising a virtual festival and this year’s … Continue reading EDI Festival 2021 ‘Intersections of Cities: Amsterdam meets Birmingham’ 3 – 24 February
As the academic year is in full swing again and the first block has already passed, A.S.V.Gay is also fully up and running again. A.S.V.Gay is Amsterdam's LGBTQ+-student association, offering a safe place to about 300 members. What do we do? We are a student association like many others in Amsterdam: we focus on having … Continue reading Amsterdam’s LGBTQ+-student association: A.S.V.Gay
Dear Black, indigenous and/or people of color at the UvA, How are you doing? We are asking this question, because we hope you are well, taking care of yourselves, and your community members. These are complex and difficult times. Those of us who do equity, diversity and inclusion (EDI) work, often feel extra pressure to … Continue reading Communal and Self Care
On 'Purple Friday' people show their solidarity with young people who are gay, bisexual, lesbian and transgender by wearing purple. In 2010 Purple Friday was organized for the first time in the Netherlands. It always takes place at the second Friday of December and is organized by the network of Gay-Straight Alliances (GSA) of the … Continue reading Purple Friday
Finding a job is a struggle for everyone, but for some people more than others. At least, that is precisely what Bram Lancee, associate professor of Sociology at the UvA, reveals in his recent work on ethnic inequality in the labour market. In a large-scale field experiment, Lancee sent 4,200+ fictitious applications to real-life job … Continue reading Spotlight: Research on Ethnic discrimination in the Dutch labor market
Friday the 6th of November UvA students who applied for Meet Your Mentor met during a warming up session with the project manager Meltem Halaceli. More than 30 students and almost 80 mentors applied for this program. Meet Your Mentor was promoted as a pilot at the Faculty of Economics and Business (FEB), Social and … Continue reading Meet Your Mentor Students Excited to Start
This new academic year, the UvA is proud to be part of the Amsterdams Akkoord Hoger Onderwijs (Amsterdam Accord for Higher Education ). Geert ten Dam, Chairman of the CvB (College van Bestuur; the UvA’s Executive Board) signed the accord on September 22nd, together with eight other educational institutions in Amsterdam: the VU, the HvA, … Continue reading UvA Signs Amsterdams Akkoord
Since 1988, a Coming Out day has been held annually on 11 October. On that day, attention is paid to the moment a lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender (LGBT) openly expresses a sexual orientation or gender identity: ‘coming out’. This is not a one-off event, because a new context with new people always requires a new … Continue reading Statement UvA Pride: Coming Out to Calling In
