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
Anne de Graaf will continue as UvA’s Chief Diversity Officer (CDO) for another three years. De Graaf began her work in November 2017 as a consequence of the presentation of the Diversity Committee's final report in 2016. De Graaf will also continue to teach at Amsterdam University College in the fields of human rights and … Continue reading Diversity Officer stays on for three more years
by Ugur Ümit Üngör In the second half of 2019, I spent a semester teaching history at the University of California in Los Angeles. The superdiversity of California universities demonstrates the need for European campuses to be more inclusive - not for window-dressing, but for substantial reasons: linguistic skills, cultural background knowledge, and non-Eurocentric perspectives. Read … Continue reading Spotlight: How integration should work in European campuses
As of 1 September, the Netherlands has a national action plan to promote diversity and inclusion in teaching and research. With this action plan (in Dutch) , the Dutch universities and research institutions, in conjunction with the government, have taken a further step in their commitment to diversity and inclusion. Nine parties signed the plan, including the … Continue reading Launch: National Action Plan on Diversity and Inclusion
The University of Birmingham (UoB) and the University of Amsterdam (UvA) have joined together in a strategic partnership that aims to build upon our long-standing Universitas 21 connection, and enhance collaborative opportunities between our institutions, focused around Equality Diversity and Inclusion (EDI). Drawing on the outstanding EDI related research at both universities. Read More on: … Continue reading Our Embedding EDI blog is live
The Chief Diversity Officer (CDO) team and Faculty Diversity Officers are deeply appalled by the structural power abuse and power dynamics within the UvA which protect perpetrators rather than victims-survivors. We see these events not as isolated cases, but as part of a larger pattern of structural violence, power abuse and gaslighting of victims-survivors after … Continue reading Statement against sexual violence at the UvA
Take a look at the online CDO magazine. We are proud to present the first Chief Diversity Officer magazine, containing the 2019 annual report and 2020 plan: Diversity 2.0: from why to how. You can read about our priorities and milestones, learn more about our focus points for 2020, see the overview of our workshops … Continue reading 2019 annual report and 2020 plan
By Seval Gündemir (UvA) & Joanne Duberley (University of Birmingham) UvA’s Chief Diversity Office and University of Birmingham have been working on building a collaborative EDI initiative since 2019. Last year in July, a delegate from University of Birmingham visited the UvA, which introduced UvA and Birmingham scholars to one another. Since then EDI scholars … Continue reading Not Just a Number
